| At its best, any prison is so unnatural
a form of segregation from normal life that-- like too-loving parents and too
zealous religion and all other well-meant violations of individuality-it helps
to prevent the vicitims from resuming when they are let out, any natural role in
human society. At its worst, the prison is almost scientifically designed to
develop by force--ripening every one of the antisocial traits for which we
suppose ourselves to put people into prison (I say "suppose", because actually
we put people into prison only because we don’t know what else to do with them).
The prison makes the man who is sexually abnormal, sexually a maniac. The prison
makes the man who enjoyed beating fellow drunks in a bar-room come out wanting
to kill a policeman. Probably we cannot tomorrow turn all the so-called criminals loose a A. makes people incapable of living independently B. doesn’t train people for useful work C. is too kind for people to live freely D. is too strict for people to live freely [单项选择]Passage 1
The bank 41 borrowers enough interest to pay the expense of the bank and have something left over for 42 . The interest cannot be higher than the legal ate, which is established by state law and in most states is 6% per year, 43 big loans, the interest rate is much less, even as low as 2%, The fate depends on the money market, When there is plenty of money 44 to be borrowed, banks charge low rates of interest. A savings bank may pay its depositors 2% and lend the money at 3.5% or 4%. But when money is tight, interest rates go up, and a savings bank may try to 45 depositors by offering 4% or4.5% or even more ad lending the money at 5% or 6%.
A. receives B. gets C. charges D. pays [单项选择]
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[单项选择]Passage Three
Crime has its own cycles, a magazine reported some years ago. Police records that were studied for five years from over 2,400 cities and towns show a surprising link between changes in the season and crime patterns in UK.
The pattern of crime has varied very little over a long period of years. Murder reaches its high during July and August, as do rape and other violent attacks. Murder, moreove r, is more than seasonal: it is a weekend crime. It is also a nighttime crime: 62 percent of murders are committed between 6 p. m. and 6 a. m.
Unlike the summer high in crimes of bodily harm, burglary has a different cycle. You are most likely to be robbed between 6 p. m. and 2 a. m. on a Saturday night in December, January or February. The most uncriminal month of all is May; however, more dog bites are reported in this month than in any other month of the year.
On the other hand, our intellectual seasonal cycles are completely different from our criminal tenden
A. All types of crimes happen in May. B. There is no crime happened in May. C. Criminals increase in number in May. D. Dog attacks are most frequent in May. 我来回答: 提交
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