[单项选择]Our criminal justice system is inherently flawed because it relies on amateur juries of decent citizens, who lack the perspective to understand the criminal mind. To have an effective criminal justice system would require professional juries, who would be able to deal with these criminals in a way that gets results.
The argument above depends on which of the following assumptions ？（）
A. Professional jurors will be more reliable than amateur jurors because they will not attempt to avoid jury duty.
B. Professional jurors will not be burdened by the biases against race, gender, and religion that amateur jurors bring into the courtroom.
C. Dealing with criminals in a way that gets results requires an understanding of the criminal mind.
D. No amount of professional training can impart the perspective of the criminal mind necessary to run an effective criminal justice system.
E. Jurors possessing the perspective to understand the criminal mind are unfit to serve on a jury, because they are likely to be criminals.

[简答题]Since then the justice system has undergone a lot of fine tuning making this extremely unlikely today．

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Although our educational system and our society generally place a high value on competition, some problems can be better solved through cooperation and some forms of learning are strengthened through cooperation. Both competition and cooperation have a place in society and can serve a useful purpose. Consequently, it is necessary to be able to engage in both processes depending on the circumstances and one’s goals.
In the academic environment grades are often conceived as the major criterion (标准) for the assessment of learning. We tend to assume that the higher one’s grade average, the more one has learned, thus creating greater competition for grades. This competition can be particularly intense in fields where the financial rewards are great and opportunity is limited: law, engineering, medicine, and business.
However, the measure of one’s learning is not limited to grades. It is possible to learn a great deal about a subject and receive a low
A. competition and cooperation are related
B. cooperation is more important
C. cooperation and competition are both needed
D. competition is more important

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Our understanding of the Emotional System today is still in the Dark Ages. (46) This has its analogy to the time when people’ s understanding of our Solar System was based upon the belief that the Sun revolved around the Earth, as it certainly appeared that way—however, just the reverse was true. The problem was, as long as we believed the Sun went around the Earth, we were limited as to how far we could go in the Solar System.
We find the same condition existing today in regard to the "Emotional System. Society believes that our emotional feelings are a result of our experiences in our environment. In essence: something happened and it made me feel the way I do. This belief, though it is certainly the way it appears, is just the reverse of how it really works.
What happens to us as we embrace an emotional feeling is that it is first received by our brain, which converts it into electrical energy that flows through our body by means of the

[单项选择] Our multimillion nerve-cell central nervous system has its roots in the scattered nerve cells of tiny, lowly organisms that lived in water half a billion years ago. Nerve cells evidently first appeared in coelenterates —"hollow-gutted" organisms like hydra and the sea anemone. A coelenterate’’s nerve network lacks any kind of centralized control. This probably began with flatworms — the first creatures to possess a head, specialized sense cells help flatworms respond more flexibly than sea anemones to outside stimulus. But like most animals without a backbone, flatworms act mostly by instinct and reflex. Intelligent behavior remained impossible until the appearance of relatively big, complex types of brain — the types we find among the backboned animals, or vertebrates. The tiniest fish has a larger brain than the largest insect. But the development of a fish’’s three-part brain reflects that beast’’s unin-tellectual priorities. Much of the forebrain deals only with smell. Th
A. The sensory organs of invertebrates.
B. The anatomy of tiny organisms.
C. The origin of the brain and central nervous system.
D. The importance of vision for fish and advanced mammals.

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In our system of education today, examinations are a common feature. Our present education system has often been criticized as too examination-oriented. However, one must remember that in offices and other areas of work, examinations still feature clearly. There is no doubt that the fear and influence of examination cause much preparation work. So it therefore appears that examinations whether considered good or bad would stay for a while as a test of human knowledge.
Examinations are meant to test the intellect of a person, how much he knows or how he has learnt from a particular course. It is designed to make students study, which should be their immediate mission in life. In our competitive world of today, examinations have a highly selecting or filtering role. In the university, students have to pass annual examinations before they are allowed to continue, or study a harder syllabus. Moreover, for entrance into a university, pre-university examination results would pr
A. Selecting or filtering rote.
B. Electing or fulfilling role.
C. Educational vale.
D. Important role.

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How efficient is our system of criminal trial Does it really do the basic job we ask of it—convicting the guilty and acquitting the innocent It is often said that the British trail system is more like a game than a serious attempt to do justice. The lawyers on each side are so engrosses in playing hard to win, challenging each other and the judge on technical points, that the object of finding out the truth is almost forgotten. All the effort is concentrated on the big day, on the dramatic cross examination of the key witnesses in front of the jury. Critics like to compare our "adversarial" system (resembling two adversaries engaged in a contest) with the continental "inquisitorial" system, under which the judge plays a more important inquiring role.
In early times, in the Middle Ages, the systems of trial across Europe were’ similar. At that time trial by "ordeal"—especially a religious event--was the main way of testing gu
A. questions whether the system of trial by jury can ever be completely efficient
B. suggests a number of reforms which should be made to the legal system of various countries
C. describes how the British legal system works and compares it favourably with other systems
D. compares the legal systems of a number of countries and discusses their advantages and disadvantages