American TV and movies once gave a tough and brutal picture of the American pol">
American TV and movies once gave a tough and brutal picture of the American police, though now there are TV series which have cops as heroes and defenders of society. The police are （51） _________ for the good publicity and their new image, especially in cities where there are black ghettos. White policemen are now careful of how they speak and （52） _________ towards their fellow black citizens. The cop, or ordinary policeman, is a city or a State employee. He cannot （53） ___________anyone outside his city or his State.Since the （54） _________ of criminals are armed, American cops have to use their guns more often than most policemen in other places and the car chases through the crowded streets of Manhattan, which are a favorite feature of gangster movies, are not so exaggerated. American cops get shot down, run over, stabbed, beaten up, and their wives are in （55）_________ fear that one day their men will not come home. Many policemen do a lot to help children whose parents are criminals. They understand better than most citizens the awful （56） ________ of the ghettos. They feel sorry for the drug addicts, but often treat roughly the "pushers" who sell the drugs-when they can catch them. They have been （57） _________ of making no serious attempt to break up the various drug rings. They claim that such a task would be never-ending. In big cities, the Police Commissioner （Head of the Force） is often （58） ________ by Mayor and therefore senior police officers tend to be too closely linked to （59） .Their ambitions sometimes tempt them to tum a （60） ________ eye or to accept bribes, which lowers the morale of the ordinary cop. The structure of the many different American police forces is said to be the most varied in the whole world. （From The Police and the Intelligence Agents）__________
【正确答案】：grateful
【题目解析】：细节推理题。根据上下文，以前影视片中的警察形象不佳，后来警察的良好形象得到宣传，空格处要填写警察对此的感受。空格前是系动词，后面是介词for引导原因，因此空格处应该填形容词。选项中只有grateful（感谢的）一词无论词性还是词义都合适，因此正确答案为grateful。