The world has never been more closely and intricately connected. Our behavior (51) the environment we all share, and we are tied into a global economy and global communication system. (52) choosing to buy one garment rather than another we help determine whether someone on the other side of the world retains or (53) their job; emissions from one part of the world contribute to a hole in the ozone layer somewhere else; we can (54) with others anywhere via satellites, the Internet and the mobile phone. This interdependency, (55) "connexity", is the defining characteristic of the world today.
However, despite connexity, human beings have also (56) been, more separate. Belief in individual rights and freedoms is at the heart of the West’s world view. People nowadays insist their freedom to (57) how to live, who to love, what to consume and what to believe. In economics, the sovereignty of the consumer and the shareholder is paramount. In politics, the sovereignty of nations remains a (58) concern.
In this inspiring and important book Mulgan argues that our freedom and our connectedness are set or collision course and argues that the (59) way out of our current impasse (僵局) is to go beyond our sense of ourselves as (60) unit, and recognize the webs of mutual responsibility in which we live.
56().
A.ever
B.once
C.never
D.still
参考答案：C
解析：
文章第一段阐述世界从未像现在这样紧密地互相联系在一起，第二段阐述尽管世界从未像现在这样紧密地联系在一起，但人类也没有任何时候比现在更独立。通观全篇文章，此处需填一个表示否定的词。