英语阅读(一)自考题-36stevejobs
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(总分100,考试时间90分钟)
第一部分 选择题
Ⅰ.CAREFUL READING
If you are looking for an explanation of why we don't get tough with criminals, you need only look at the numbers. Each year almost a third of the houholds in America are victims of violence or theft. This amounts to more than 41 million crimes, many more than we are able to punish. There are also too many criminals. We don't have room for any more!
The painful fact is that the more crime there is, the less we are able to punish it. We think that punishment prevents crime, but it just might be the other way around. When there is so much crime it is simply impossible to deal with it or punish it. This is the situation we find ourlves in today, the gradual increa in the criminal population has made it more difficult to get into prison. Some of the most exclusive prisons now require about five rious crimes
before a criminal is accepted.
The features show that it makes little n to blame the police or judges for being soft on criminals. There is not much el they can do. The police can't find most criminals and tho they do find are difficult and costly to convict. Tho convicted can't all be nt to prison. The public demands that we do everything we can against crime. The practical reality is that there is very little the police, courts or prisons can do about the crime problem.chronicle
We could, of cour, get tough with the people we already have in prison and keep them locked up for longer periods of time. Yet when measured against the lower crime rates, this would probably produce, longer prison ntences are not worth the cost to states and local governments. Besides, tho states that have tried to gain voters' approval for building new prisons often discover that the public is unwilling to pay for prison constructions. And if it were willing to pay, long prison ntences may not be effective in reducing crime.
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More time spent in prison is also more expensive. The best estimates are that it costs an average of $13,000 to keep a person in prison for one year. If we had a place to keep the 124,000 relead prisoners, it would have cost us $1.6 billion to prevent 15,000 crimes. This works out to more than $100,000 per crime prevented. But there is more. With the average cost of prison construction running around $50,000 per bed, it would cost more than $6 billion to build the necessary cells. The first-year operating cost would be $150,000 per crime prevented, worth it if the victim were you or me, but much too expensive to be feasible as a national policy.
Faced with the reality of the numbers, I will not be so foolish as to suggest a solution to the crime problem. My contribution to the public debate begins and ends with this simple obrvation, getting tough with criminals is not the answer.
1. By saying "it just might be the other way around" (para. 2), the writer means ______.A. vere punishment lowers crime rates B. soft measures lead to the ri of crime rates C. easy policies are more effective than strict ones D. the increa in crime makes punishment difficult
neg2. It is wrong to blame the police or judges for not being hard on criminals partly becau ______.A. trials are expensive B. criminals are very dangerous C. the police force is weak D. the public fill to support the court
3. The cost for constructing prisons is ______.A. $13,000 per bed B. $50,000 per bed C. $100,000 per bed D. $150,000 per bed
4. The writer of the passage bas his argument mainly upon ______.A. statistical evidence B. public opinions C. criminal psychology D. personal experience
5. The tone of the passage is ______.A. playful B. rious C. satirical D. angry
bling第二部分 非选择题
uncle什么意思Ⅱ.DISCOURSE CLOZE
BIFF: Why didn't you answer?
WILLY: Biff! What are you doing in Boston?
斡旋的意思
BIFF: Why didn't you answer? 1 .
WILLY: I just heard you. 2 . Did anything happen home?
BIFF: 3 .
WILLY: What do you mean?
BIFF:
WILLY: Biffo, what's this about? Putting his arm around Biff. Come on, let's go downstairs and get you a malted.
ultraedit是什么 BIFF: Dad, 4 .
WILLY: Not for the term?
BIFF: The term. I haven't got enough credits to graduate.
WILLY: 5 ?
BIFF: He did, he tried, but I only got a sixty-one.
WILLY: And they wouldn't give you four points?
BIFF: 6 . I begged him, Pop, but he won't give me tho points. You gotta talk to him before they clo the school. 7 , I'm sure he'd come through for me. The class came right before practice, e, and I didn't go enough. 8 ? He'd like you, Pop. You know the way you could talk.
