Whom can you trust these days? It is a question posed by David Halpern of Cambridge University, and the researchers at the Downing Street Strategy Unit who take an interest in "social capital". In intervals they go around asking people in assorted nations the question:  "Generally speaking, would you say that most people can be trusted?"(1)____

The results are fascinated.(2)____ The conclusion that leaps from the figures and into sensational headlines (3)____ are that social dislocation, religious decline, public scandals, family fragmentation and the fear of crime have made us more trusting. (4)____ Comparative surveys over 40 years suggest that British trustfulness had halved: (5)____in the 1950s 60 per cent of us answered "yes, most people can be trusted", in the 1980s 44 per cent, today only 29 per cent. Trust levels also continue to fall in Ireland and the US-meanwhile, the Norwegians,  Swedes,  Danes  and  Dutch  express  tremendous confidence in one(6)____ and another’s honesty: levels are actually rising. In Mexico and Japan the level of trust is also increasing, that is(7)____
interesting if mild bewildering. (8)____  And the Palme d'Or（金棕榈奖）for
mutual suspect goes to the Brazilians-with less than (9)____3 per cent replying "yes"-and the Turks with 6.5 per cent. The French, apparently, never trusted each other and still don't. Nevertheless we become less Scandinavian and more French (or Turkish) every year.(10)____

文章大意
本文讨论的是信任危机。剑桥大学的大卫·哈尔朋等人对世界不同国家的人的调查结果表明，在过去的40年里，英国人对他人的信任度降低了一半，在爱尔兰和美国，信任度也在持续下降；而与此同时，挪威人、瑞典人、丹麦人、荷兰人的信任水平却在上升。在墨西哥和日本，人与人之间的信任度也在提高，而巴西、土耳其和法国的信任度最低。
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