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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。
段落 | 关键词、句 | 大意推测 |
第一部分(Para. 1-3) | McCormick, 57,was convicted of cheats last month and sentenced Thursday at the Old Bailey court in London | 新闻案件的简介:57岁的McCormick上月被起诉诈骗并于周三在伦敦的Old Bailey court法庭被判刑。 |
第二部分(Para. 4) | cheating conduct, promoted a false sense of security, contributed to causing death and injury to innocent people | 法官宣判:罪犯的欺骗行为增强了人们虚假的安全感并促使导致给无辜百姓带来死亡和伤害。 |
第三部分(Para. 5-7) | But in fact they “lacked any grounding in science” and were of no use, sold…to… , never had any bad results | 案件细节及当事人的反诉:假冒炸弹探测器被销往世界各地,但它根本没有科学依据,也毫无用处。罪犯狡辩假冒产品没有给用户带来任何不良后果。 |
【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。
查看习题详情和答案>>这是一篇打乱了顺序的短文,请将它们整理成通顺的文章。第一段已确定了。
To be a good teacher, you need some of the gifts of the good actor:You must be able to hold the attention and interest of your audience; you must be a clear speaker, with a good, strong, pleasing voice which is fully under your control, and you must be able to act what you are teaching, in order to make its meaning clear.
1.The fact that good teachers have some of the gifts of good actors does not mean that they will indeed be able to act well on the stage:There are very important differences between the teachers’ work and the actors’.Actors have to speak words which they have learnt by heart:they have to repeat exactly the same words each time they play a certain part, even their movement and the ways in which they use their voices are usually fixed before.What they have to do is to make all these carefully learnt words and actions seem natural on the stage.
2.I have known many teachers who were fine actors in class but were unable to take a part in a stage play because they could not keep strictly to what another had written.
3.Good teachers work in quite a different way.Their audience take an active part in the play:They ask and answer questions; they obey orders, and if they do not understand something, they say so.Teachers therefore have to suit their act to the needs of their audience, which is their class.They cannot learn their part by heart, but must invent it as they go along.
4.Watch good teachers, and you will see that they do not sit motionless(静止)before their class:They stand the whole time they are teaching; they walk about, using their arms, hands and fingers to help them in their explanations, and their faces to express feelings.Listen to them, and you will hear the loudness, the quality and the musical note of their voices always changing according to what they are talking about.
书面表达
假如你是一名高三学生,假设以下的内容提示是你的一次经历,请根据提示,写一篇英语短文介绍一下你的这次经历。
1.星期天上午你在一家商店遇见了一位外国朋友,他要买东西,因语言不通陷入困境;
2.你用英语帮问他要买什么,他说要买一套瓷器。于是,你帮他问清价格,选中了他要买的瓷器;他很感激你,并夸你英语讲的不错;
3.第一次使用英语,并帮助外国朋友解决问题使你很受鼓舞,你决心进一步学好英语。
注意:
1.内容必须包括以上所有要点,但不得逐句翻译;
2.短文的第一段已经给出,不计入总词数;
3.词数:100-150
参考词汇:瓷器chian;挑选:choose
On Sunday morning, I met a foreign friend in a shop, He wanted to buy something, but couldn't make himself understood, as nobody around knew what he said.He looked rather worried.
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第二节书面表达(满分25分)
你校为推进素质教育,进行了教学“减负”活动。假如你是学校学生会的学习部长,对“减负”前后的情况进行了调查,调查情况如下图,请根据此图写一篇文章发表在校报上。
注意:1.短文必须包括图表内容;
2.可适当增加评注性语言;
3.词数100左右;
4.文章的第一段已经给出,不计入总词数。
Recently I’ve made a survey about the “Reducing Burden” activity being carried in our school.
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下面的一段文章为课文原文的浓缩,仔细阅读,根据原文章内容将其补充完整。
Great Expectations, written by one of England’s greatest writers, Charles Dickens, is 1 in England in the early 1800s.The main character in the novel is 2 , a poor boy who lives with his 3 sister and her husband Joe, a kind and simple man.
4 is an important symbol of danger and 5 in Great Expectations.It is a misty night when the story begins.The main plot of this novel is that a stranger gives Pip a large sum of 6 , then Pip moves to 7 and becomes a snob.What it means to be a 8 is an important theme in Great Expectations.By the end of the novel, Pip learns that 9 does not buy happiness and that friends are more important than a fancy 10 .The change in Pip is an important part of this novel.