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。

此题要求改正所给短文中的错误。先对标有题号的每一行作出判断：如无错误，在该行右边横线上画一个勾（√）；如有错误（每行只有一个错误），则按下列情况改正：
该行多一个词：把多余的词用斜线（＼）划掉，在该行右边横线上写出该词，并也用斜线划掉。
该行缺一个词：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），在该行右边横线上写出该加的词。
该行错一个词：在错的词下划一横线，在该行右边横线上写出改正后的词。
注意：⒈ 原行没有错的不要改；
⒉ 答案必须写在答题卡相应的位置上。
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短文改错(共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分)

此题要求改正所给短文中的错误没。对标有题号的每一行做出判断；如有错误，在该行右边横线上画一个勾；如有错误(每行只有一个错误) ，则按下列情况改正：

此行多一个词；把多余的词用斜线(\) 划掉，在该行右边横线上写出该词，并也用斜线划掉。

此行缺一个词：在却此处加一个漏字符号(∧) ，在该行右边横线上写出该加的词。

此行错一个词：在错的词下画一横线，在该行右边横线上写出改正后的词。

In Grand Eight I took physics. In one test I get                 56. __________

only___36___percent of the answer correct. I failed the     57. __________

next one, either. I started to think that maybe I was           58. __________

not good at it. However, I was not lucky enough to           59. __________

have a teacher which didn’t take my bad grades as a          60. __________

judgement of my abilities, but simply like an indication        61. __________

how I should study harder. He pulled me aside and told      62. __________

me that he knew I could do better. He permitted to retake   63. __________

the test, and I was pulled my grade to an A. This is what   64. __________

I discovered: just because a subject is difficulty to learn.    65. __________

It doesn’t mean you are not good at it.

单词或词组拼写
根据下列句子中的汉语注释,在答题纸相应的位置上写出空缺处各单词或词组的正确形式.
【小题1】 Xie Lei told me that when I saw her waiting in a queue at a student        (食堂) between lectures.
【小题2】 When I miss my family, it is a great comfort to have a      (替代) family to be with.
【小题3】 I was       (麻木的) with shock when I saw the mark E on my paper.
【小题4】 More importantly, I am now a more        (自主的) learner.
【小题5】By the time California       (选择) to become the thirty-first federal state of the USA in 1850, it was already a multicultural society.
【小题6】      (意大利人) mainly fishermen but also wine makers, arrived in California in the late 19^th century.
【小题7】 The conductor could not control the situation and the tram      (滑动) down the hill dragging the horses with it.
【小题8】 Cloning plants is       (简单的) while cloning animals is very complicated.
【小题9】 So the chance of dinosaurs ever returning to the earth is       (仅仅) a dream.
【小题10】 It is a difficult task to      (从事)
【小题11】        （在他看来），what other people thought was not the most important thing.
【小题12】The customs and languages of the immigrants        (继续存在) in their new home.
【小题13】 There is a fascinating drive       (划出) for tourists.
【小题14】 But at last the determination and patience of the scientists       (回报) in 1996 with a breakthrough — the cloning of Dolly the sheep.
【小题15】 From time to time people suggest that extinct animal like dinosaurs, can possibly be       (重生) through cloning.

此题要求改正所给句中的错误。每题只有一个错误，按下列情况改正：此句多一个词：把多余的词用斜线(＼)划掉，在该句右边横线上写出该词，并也用斜线(＼)划掉。此句缺一个词：在缺词处加一个漏字符号(∧)，在该句右边横线上写出该加的词。此句错一个词：在错的词下划一横线，在该句右边横线上写出改正后的词。注意：此题没有正确的题。
Each boy and each girl were given a chance to compete in the game.
【小题1】        
The flowers in the field smell sweetly.
【小题2】_________
He made so rapid progress that he was praised by all.
【小题3】        
This is the tallest building which I have ever seen.
【小题4】_________
What will happen if you don’t have balanced diet.
【小题5】 _________
Seeing from the spaceship, the earth is a huge water globe.
【小题6】 _________
Great changes have been taken place in my hometown in the past ten years.
【小题7】 _________
I think it is wrong for you to stare at others.
【小题8】 _________
The doctors did all what they could to save the soldier.
【小题9】_________
The girl became very frightening at the sudden noise.
【小题10】_________