单项选择题

In any society, no matter how (31) , some individuals have authority (32) others, at least within a limited sphere. Obedience is particularly relevant as societies get more (33) , where the sphere (34) authority can be (35) become much more differentiated. Teachers (36) homework , doctors order intravenous feedings, and motorists generally (37) . Their obedience is based upon an (38) recognition that the persons who (39) the orders are operating with their (40) domain of authority. If this domain is (41) , obedience is unlikely. Policemen can’t order motorists to (42) a list of irregular French verbs or (43) two aspirins and go to bed.
Some tendency to obey authority is a vital cement that holds society together; without it, there (44) chaos. But the atrocities of this century—the bombing of civilians, the Nazi death camps—give terrible proof that this disposition to obedience can also become a corrosive poison that destroys our sense of humanity. Some of these atrocities could not have been (45) (46) the obedience of tens or hundreds of thousands and the acquiescence of many more. How much such obedience have come (47) Attempt to answer this question has focused on (48) of the two factors. One (49) the personality structure of the blindly obedient individual; the other emphasizes the (50) situation in which the obedient person finds himself.