考研英語閲讀理解模擬訓練及答案

For hundreds of years，the criminal law has been built around the idea that wrongdoers must be punished for their most basic argument for punishment is that it preserves law and order and respects for this point of view，punishment does two upholds the law，and it prevents others from thinking they can get away with doing the same thing without shment is based on the idea that many people have a barely controlled desire to act in forbidden ways.

One of the best ways to reduce crime is to reform or rehabilitate habitual main problem is not the first offender or the petty thief but the repeated offender who commits increasingly serious rding to criminologists，crime would decrease greatly if all such offenders could be turned away from ons have had little success in rehabilitating t two-thirds of the people arrested in any year have a previous criminal record.

Rehabilitation of criminals could probably be improved greatly if experts could provide the right kind of program for different types of inals vary widely in the kinds of crimes they commit，their emotional problems，and their social and economic all offenders can be helped by the same require the aid of physicians，psychiatrists，or rs respond well to educational or vocational the early 1990s，there were about 1，300，000 criminals in ，county，state，and federal correctional institutions，and about 500，000 more were out on ety spent more than $15 billion to operate prisons and related institutions yearly，but only a small part of this sum went to provide ly all the funds were used to feed and clothe prisoners and to keep them under control.

Since the 1ate 1970s，however，there has been a trend toward punishment rather than rehabilitation of on sentences are tal punishments have been used more frequently since the eme Court lifted a death penalty ban in rtheless，crime prevention should aim to prevent people from becoming criminals in the first a goal probably would benefit from reform programs in urban e programs would include improved housing，schools，and recreation programs and increased job opportunities.

There are many other ways to reduce le can be educated or persuaded to take greater precautions against can be taught，for example，how to protect their homes from mobile thefts would drop sharply if drivers removed their keys and locked their cars when leaving er lighting helps discourage purse-snatchings and other robberies on city streets and in experts believe that strict gun-licensing laws would greatly reduce crime.

belief that people tend to behave in forbidden ways____.

[A] leads to the formulation of the criminal law

[B] makes people value order above all else

[C] convinces people that crimes should be eliminated from the society

[D]is a false one that should not be taken seriously

the second paragraph the author implies____.

[A] the on system is not working effectively enough to reform criminals

[B] the best way to reduce crime rate is to rehabilitate habitual criminals

[C] reforming criminals in prison will turn them away from wrongdoing

[D] crimes would decrease if people‘s desire could be healthily channeled

author speculates that rehabilitation can be made more effective if____.

[A] reform is directed to the criminals‘ emotional problems

[B] rehabilitation is aimed at changing the economic and social environment

[C] rehabilitation is facilitated by physicians，psychiatrists or psychologists

[D] crimes are dealt with in the ways that suit each kind

rding to the author，punishment is a better means than rehabilitation in reducing crime rate____.

[A] so it should be used in place of rehabilitation

[B] so stricter sentences are absolutely necessary

[C] yet it does not work well in many cases

[D] but preventing crime is even more effective

5. The author concludes the passage by pointing out that____.

[A] the present gun-licensing laws are held responsible for most of the crimes

[B] educational failure accounts for most of the present offences

[C] more help should be provided for released criminals

[D] the long-term reduction of crime rate depends on multiple improvements

參考答案：

1.[A]意為：導致刑法的制定。第一段最後一句指出，(法律)懲罰是基於這樣一種認識：許多人幾乎無法控制自己的慾望，總想以不容許的方式行事。這裏的含義是：為了制止人們這種想法和行為，制定法律來約束他們是必要的'。

2.[A] 第二段第四、五句指出，但是美國監獄在改造罪犯方面不成功。每年被逮捕的人中有約2/3的人有前科。

3.[D] 第三段第一句指出，如果專家們能為不同的罪犯提供合適的改造方案，會大大地改進對罪犯的改造。注意：本句是一個虛擬句，表達作者的建議，它同時也是本段的主題句。

4.[D] 第四段提到，自20世紀70年代末以來，人們更重視懲罰而不是改造，死刑的適用更加頻繁，但是，阻止犯罪應該首先防止人們成為罪犯。這句話(第四句)表達了作者的觀點。

5.[D] 最後一段提到，人們自身也應該加強防範犯罪的意識，政府部門、法律部門也應該做出努力。可見，減少犯罪是一個綜合治理問題。