专业英语八级（阅读）模拟试卷213
选择题
(1)The YouTube video starts with the road sign: Croxteth, City of Liverpool. A youth races a motorbike down a street, another encourages a snarling dog to harass a victim and a faceless young man points a shotgun to the camera, followed by more guns, street scenes and the rap boasting of gang culture. The video has been posted on the website since October, viewed perhaps by thousands attracted by the violence of gang culture. In February the Chief Constable of Merseyside gave a stark warning: families that did nothing to stop their children\’s involvement in gun crime could find themselves identifying their child in the morgue. Yesterday Rhys Jones, an 11-year-old murdered, as he played football, by a hooded youth in a ride-by shooting, was the focus of nationwide horror at this latest victim of gangs with guns. The Chief Constable\’s warning could not have been more cruelly justified.
(2)Despite the publicity and alarm at the spate of murders of inner city teenagers in recent months, Britain is not, as some politicians have said, in a \\
1.The first paragraph does NOT claim that _____.(C)
A. Chief Constable’s warning is worth noticing
B. Rhys Jones’s death has drawn the public’s attention
C. people who possess guns will be punished
D. teenagers have become the new targets of violence
解析：第1段提到YouTube上的持枪暴力视频点击量很大，由此警察局长警告家长要阻止子女参与枪支犯罪，但是并没有提到持枪人要受惩罚，故选C.第1段末的枪击案例子和末句表明，警官的话很有根据，值得注意，A符合文意；倒数第2句提到，Rhys的死成为公众惊恐的焦点，B与之一致；视频、Rhys枪击案以及警察局长的警告都涉及青少年，故D青少年成为枪击与原文一致。
2.According to the statistics, which of the following is INCORRECT?(D)
A. More and more young people are involved in gun crimes.
B. Gun crimes are more likely to take place in certain cities.
C. Drug use and distribution is a main cause of gun crimes.
D. The gun crime in Britain was out of control last year.
解析：第3段的数字表明去年英格兰和威尔士的枪击案件只比2005一2006年度增长12起，且作者在第2段中说英国并没有处于无政府的状态，故选D。由第3段末句的数据可知，越来越多的年轻人被卷入枪支犯罪。A符合文意：B与第3段第4句相符；C与该段倒数第3句一致，故三项均可排除。
3.Why does the author say \\(B)
A. Because the fight against gun crimes is more successful in black communities.
B. Because black people in Britain commit more crimes than white people.
C. Because black people have to fight with racial discrimination in Britain.
D. Because black people are more sensitive than white people in Britain.
解析：第5段提到，警方的行动只涉及一小部分中心城区，但是在黑人社区能感受到的影响力非常大。根据接下来的数据可推测，这是因为黑人的犯罪比例较白人高，故选B。D中的sensitive看似与题干中的felt呼应，有一定的迷惑性；C与本文主题完全无关，答题时可以最先排除。
(1)Oscar Wilde\’s definition of a cynic was someone who knew the price of everything and the value of nothing. His epigram applies to the way we talk about education nowadays, focusing on what it can do for the economy. That is indeed important, but it does not capture the real value of education. It is almost as if people are afraid of saying education is a good thing in itself. That comes from a loss of confidence in the importance of transmitting a body of knowledge, a culture, ways of thinking, from one generation to the next. It is a crucial obligation we have to the next generation and we are failing to discharge it.
(2)The latest example of this loss of confidence in education is the titles of the departments created by splitting the Department for Education in two. We have the Department of Innovation, Universities
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