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     Some years ago on a hot summer day in south Florida a little boy decided to go for a swim in the old

swimming hole behind his house. In a hurry to dive into the cool water, he ran out of the back door,

leaving behind shoes, socks, and shirt as he went.

     He flew into the water, not realizing that as he swam toward the middle of the lake, a crocodile was

swimming toward him. His mother in the house was looking out of the window and saw the two. In great

fear, she ran toward the water, shouting to her son as loudly as she could. Hearing her voice, the little

boy became alarmed and made a U-turn to swim to his mother. It was too late. Just as he reached her,

the crocodile reached him. From the shore, the mother grabbed her little boy by the arms just as the

crocodile snatched his legs. That began an incredible tug-of-war between the two. The crocodile was

much stronger than the mother, but the mother was much too passionate to let go. A farmer happened

to drive by, heard their screams, raced from his truck, took aim and shot the crocodile.

     Remarkably, after weeks and weeks in the hospital, the little boy survived. His legs were extremely

scarred by the attack of the animal. And, on his arms, were deep scratches where his mother's fingernails

dug into his flesh in her effort to hang on to the son she loved.

     The newspaper reporter, who interviewed the boy, asked if he would show him his scars. The boy

lifted his legs. And then, with obvious pride, he said to the reporter, "But look at my arms. I have great

scars on my arms, too. I have them because my Mom wouldn't let go. "

      Never judge another person's scars, because you don't know how they were made.

1. By saying "But look at my arms. I have great scars on my arms, too" in paragraph 4,the boy really

    wants to show__________.

A. how deep the scars made by the crocodile were

B. what a brave and courageous boy he was

C. how many scars and scratches he had

D. how great and beloved his mother was

2. Hearing Mother's shouts, the boy______. 

A. remained in the middle at a loss    

B. didn't stop swimming forwards

C. swam back towards the shore

D. was ready to fight the crocodile

3. Which of the following statements is true according to the text?

A. A crocodile attacked him when the boy and his mother were swimming.

B. The crocodile bit the arms of the boy when it reached him.

C. There is always an interesting story behind every scar.

D. It was the farmer who shot the crocodile.

4. Which of the following will be the best title for the text?

A. Scars of Love                  

B. Women Hold up Half the Sky

C. A Terrible Experience              

D. Don't Judge by Appearances

答案

1-4: DCDA

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There is a basic hypothesis that the majority of serious motoring offences are derived from accidents, and there is nothing in the offender’s personality or background that predisposes him to break the law. If an accident is a chance event that happens so quickly and suddenly that it is beyond anyone’s control to prevent it, then it is clear that this hypothesis is disproved. For only about 14 per cent of the 653 offences considered in a recent survey could possibly be called inadvertent accidents in this sense, and even this estimate is stretching credulity to its limits. In the great majority of cases the offences were largely of the offenders’ own making. In 11 per cent of the 653 cases and 21 per cent of 43 offenders who were interviewed there was evidence of selfish, and even ruthless, self-interest, but it was not possible to infer personality disturbance in more than 25 per cent of the 653 and 39 per cent of the 43 offenders. Though the inferences with regard to personality traits may be an overestimate in the interpretation of qualitative data, they could equally be an underestimate, since so very little was ever recorded about the offenders themselves. The lack of data is a consequence of the almost total lack of interest in motoring offenders as persons. It must be assumed, therefore, in the absence of evidence to the contrary that the majority of serious motoring offenders considered in the survey were normal people, who succumbed to temptation when circumstances were favourable and it was expedient to take a chance, so perhaps there is something in the normal personality that predisposes a driver to break the law. Whatever it is, its presence is much more evident in males than in females, since the analysis of the national statistics shows a predominance of males over females of between 18:1 and 22:1.
The real significance of these figures is hard to assess, because the relative proportions of each sex at risk are unknown. One research worker produced a ratio of six males to one female from his sample of insurance policy holders, but this is almost certainly an underestimate since many females — probably more than males — are likely to be driving on someone else’s policy. A ration of three to one is probably nearer to the real state of affairs. Females reached noticeable proportions only among the hit-and-run drivers, and there seems to be some justification for calling this the feminine offence. The difference between the sexes in their relative propensity to break the law on the roads is important, because it shows that motoring offenders have a characteristic in common with offenders in other fields of criminal activity, where males predominate to a marked degree. One motor insurance underwriter recently announced his intention to offer discounts on premiums where the policy holder or the named driver was a woman.
The basic hypothesis is further disproved by the very high incidence, among the offences studied, of failing to insure against third-party risks. Yet accidents brought to light only a very small percentage of this kind of crime. Moreover, it could not possibly be said that this, the most common of the serious offences, was brought about by providence. On the contrary, it can be regarded as a typical form of economic crime, which, although sometimes committed through inadvertence, is more usually quite deliberate and calculated.

Inadequate statistical information about the personalities of motoring offenders is largely the result of______.

A.(A) the difficulty of interpreting the self-evident facts

B.(B) the inaccessibility of the police records

C.(C) scanty recorded evidence of the offenders themselves

D.(D) insufficient research into the recorded qualitative data

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