LONDON —A British judge on Thursday sentenced a businessman who sold fake (假冒的）bomb detectors (探测器) to 10 years in prison, saying the man hadn’t cared about potentially deadly consequences.

It is believed that James McCormick got about $77. 8 million from the sales of his detectors — which were based on a kind of golf ball finder — to countries including Iraq, Belgium and Saudi Arabia.

McCormick, 57，was convicted (判罪) of cheats last month and sentenced Thursday at the Old Bailey court in London.

“Your cheating conduct in selling a great amount of useless equipment simply for huge profit promoted a false sense of security and in all probability materially contributed to causing death and injury to innocent people,’’ Judge Richard Hone told McCormick. “You have neither regret, nor shame, nor any sense of guilt.”

The detectors, sold for up to $ 42,000 each, were said to be able to find such dangerous objects as bombs under water and from the air. But in fact they “lacked any grounding in science” and were of no use.

McCormick had told the court that he sold his detectors to the police in Kenya，the prison service in Hong Kong, the army in Egypt and the border control in Thailand.

“I never had any bad results from customers,” he said.

39. Why was McCormick sentenced to prison?

A. He sold bombs.                              B. He caused death of people.

C. He made detectors.                              D. He cheated in business.

40. According to the judge, what McCormick had done ________ .

A. increased the cost of safeguarding

B. lowered people’s guard against danger

C. changed people’s idea of social security

D. caused innocent people to commit crimes

41. Which of the following is true of the detectors?

A. They have not been sold to Africa.

B. They have caused many serious problems.

C. They can find dangerous objects in water.

D. They don't function on the basis of science.

42. It can be inferred from the passage that McCormick _________ .

A. sold the equipment at a low price

B. was well-known in most countries

C. did not think he had committed the crime

D. had not got such huge profit as mentioned in the text

【语篇解读】本文是一篇记叙文，题材是新闻报道。本文报道了一条卖假冒炸弹探测器的商人被判10年徒刑的新闻。

【解析】

39. D。细节理解题。难度：中等。问题是“为什么McCormick被判刑入狱”。根据问题中的关键词sentenced to prison定位原文第一段。第一段说到McCormick是一位商人，生产了假冒的炸弹探测器，这是一种商业欺骗。选项D和其对应，为正确答案。

40. B。细节理解题。难度：难。问题是“根据法官的说法，McCormick的所为导致了什么样的结果”。根据问题中的关键词according to the judge定位第四段的第一句：your cheating conduct … promoted a false sense of security and … contributed to causing death and injury to innocent people（你的欺骗行为提高了人们虚假的安全感并助推给无辜百姓带来死亡和伤害）。由此可见，McCormick的行为让人们有了安全感，但这种安全并不真实。B “降低了人们防范危险的安全意识”符合此意，为正确答案。

41. D。判断题。难度：难。问题是“下面哪种说法对探测仪来说是正确的”。

解题思路：根据问题中的关键词detectors，把四个选项具体对应到原文中一处。A对应文章倒数第二段的最后一句he sold his detectors to the police in Kenya，the prison service in Hong Kong, the army in Egypt and the border control in Thailand。该句中的Kenya是非洲的肯尼亚，否定了A的说法。B对应第一段第一句“the man hadn’t cared about potentially deadly consequences”，法官只说罪犯没有关注潜在的致命后果，而不是已经导致严重的问题。C对应第五段的第一句话“were said to be able to find such dangerous objects as bombs under water and from the air”提示，探测仪的功能只是据说，而不一定真的具备找到水中危险物品的功能。选项D定位第五段的最后一句“in fact they ‘lacked any grounding in science’ and were of no use可知，这种探测仪没有科学根据，也毫无用途，和D“没有科学根据的工作原理”相吻合，故最佳答案是D。

42. D。推理判断题。难度：中等。

解题思路：返回原文，将选项与原文一一进行比较。

本题主要考查第四段和第七段。A“以低价销售设备”与原文第四段第一句不符，因为该句提到法官指控McCormick通过卖一些无用的设备来巨额利润。B“在大多数国家很有名”与文中提到的区区几个国家和地区Iraq，Belgium，Saudi Arabia，Kenya，Hong Kong，Egypt和Thailand购买他的探测仪不符。C“认为他没有犯罪”和第七段对应，其中他所说的“I never had any bad results from customers”和C符合，Ｃ是正确答案。Ｄ“他没有赚取文中提到的那么大利润”在原文没有语言根据。

听下面5段对话。每段对话后有一个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项，并标在试卷相应的位置。听完每段对话后，你都有10秒钟的时间来回答有关小题和阅读下一小题。每段对话仅读一遍。

1．What are they talking about?

[　　]

A．Driving in England.

B．How to drive a car.

C．Whether to have the right to drive a car in England.

2．What does the woman mean?

[　　]

A．Mary is ill.

B．Mary thinks well of the concert.

C．She has no chance to talk to Mary.

3．Does Jane know Arvid Brown?

[　　]

A．She doesn't know him.

B．She knows something about him.

C．She knows him very well.

4．What can we learn from the conversation?

[　　]

A．They are both neighbours.

B．They are both classmates.

C．They are not from the same country.

5．Where does the conversation probably take place?

[　　]

A．In a clothing store.

B．At the woman's home.

C．In the sitting room.

听下面5段对话或独白。每段对话或独白后有几个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。听每段对话或独白前，你将有时间阅读各小题，每小题5秒钟；听完后，各小题将给出5秒钟的作答时间。每段对话或独白读两遍。

听第6段材料，回答第6至8题。

6．What is the possible relation between the two speakers?

[　　]

A．Good friends.

B．Mother and son.

C．Teacher and student.

7．What did the boy often do at school?

[　　]

A．He was often late for school.

B．He often fell asleep in class.

C．He often stayed after class.

8．Which of the following statements is true?

[　　]

A．The boy prefers to go out and work.

B．The boy has neither much interest in school nor in work.

C．The boy is discouraged because he hasn't passed the exam.

听第7段材料，回答第9至11题。

9．What do you think the man is? Why?

[　　]

A．A policeman, because he works hard.

B．A postman, because he often works late.

C．A taxi driver, because he often works through the evening rush hours.

10．When were they having this dialogue?

[　　]

A．After the man finished his work.

B．After they got up.

C．Before they went out shopping.

11．How is the weather in New York compared with the weather in Florida?

[　　]

A．Colder.　　B．Warmer.　　C．Rains more.

听第8段材料，回答第12、13题。

12．What are the people in the house doing?

[　　]

A．They're having dinner.

B．They're having a party.

C．They're watching TV.

13．Who is Karl Black?

[　　]

A．He is the man's daughter's boy-friend.

B．He is the woman's daughter's boyfriend.

C．He is Miss Zhang's boy-friend.

听第9段材料，回答第14至16题。

14．Where does the conversation probably take place?

[　　]

A．In the school office.

B．In a classroom.

C．At the student's home.

15．How long is one course?

[　　]

A．Twenty-three weeks.

B．Fourteen weeks.

C．Three weeks.

16．When is the first course?

[　　]

A．In June.　　B．In July.　　C．In August.

听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。

17．What do they do for a living now?

[　　]

A．They have a shop that sells bread and cakes.

B．They buy cakes and bread and sell them.

C．They make cakes and bread and send them to shops.

18．Which of the following facts that does NOT make it easy for the mother to take care of the business?

[　　]

A．She helped the father with the business before.

B．She looked after the children.

C．The speaker's older brother was helping with the business.

19．When did the mother probably start to take care of the business?

[　　]

A．Recently.　　B．Six years ago.　　C．Two years ago.

20．Who was George?

[　　]

A．My younger brother.

B．My elder brother.

C．My father.