LONDON —A British judge on Thursday sentenced a businessman who sold fake (假冒的）bomb detectors (探测器) to 10 years in prison, saying the man hadn’t cared about potentially deadly consequences.

It is believed that James McCormick got about $77. 8 million from the sales of his detectors — which were based on a kind of golf ball finder — to countries including Iraq, Belgium and Saudi Arabia.

McCormick, 57，was convicted (判罪) of cheats last month and sentenced Thursday at the Old Bailey court in London.

“Your cheating conduct in selling a great amount of useless equipment simply for huge profit promoted a false sense of security and in all probability materially contributed to causing death and injury to innocent people,’’ Judge Richard Hone told McCormick. “You have neither regret, nor shame, nor any sense of guilt.”

The detectors, sold for up to $ 42,000 each, were said to be able to find such dangerous objects as bombs under water and from the air. But in fact they “lacked any grounding in science” and were of no use.

McCormick had told the court that he sold his detectors to the police in Kenya，the prison service in Hong Kong, the army in Egypt and the border control in Thailand.

“I never had any bad results from customers,” he said.

39. Why was McCormick sentenced to prison?

A. He sold bombs.                              B. He caused death of people.

C. He made detectors.                              D. He cheated in business.

40. According to the judge, what McCormick had done ________ .

A. increased the cost of safeguarding

B. lowered people’s guard against danger

C. changed people’s idea of social security

D. caused innocent people to commit crimes

41. Which of the following is true of the detectors?

A. They have not been sold to Africa.

B. They have caused many serious problems.

C. They can find dangerous objects in water.

D. They don't function on the basis of science.

42. It can be inferred from the passage that McCormick _________ .

A. sold the equipment at a low price

B. was well-known in most countries

C. did not think he had committed the crime

D. had not got such huge profit as mentioned in the text

【语篇解读】本文是一篇记叙文，题材是新闻报道。本文报道了一条卖假冒炸弹探测器的商人被判10年徒刑的新闻。

段落	关键词、句	大意推测
第一部分（Para. 1-3）	McCormick, 57，was convicted of cheats last month and sentenced Thursday at the Old Bailey court in London	新闻案件的简介：57岁的McCormick上月被起诉诈骗并于周三在伦敦的Old Bailey court法庭被判刑。
第二部分（Para. 4）	cheating conduct, promoted a false sense of security, contributed to causing death and injury to innocent people	法官宣判：罪犯的欺骗行为增强了人们虚假的安全感并促使导致给无辜百姓带来死亡和伤害。
第三部分（Para. 5-7）	But in fact they “lacked any grounding in science” and were of no use, sold…to… , never had any bad results	案件细节及当事人的反诉：假冒炸弹探测器被销往世界各地，但它根本没有科学依据，也毫无用处。罪犯狡辩假冒产品没有给用户带来任何不良后果。

【解析】

39. D。细节理解题。难度：中等。问题是“为什么McCormick被判刑入狱”。根据问题中的关键词sentenced to prison定位原文第一段。第一段说到McCormick是一位商人，生产了假冒的炸弹探测器，这是一种商业欺骗。选项D和其对应，为正确答案。

40. B。细节理解题。难度：难。问题是“根据法官的说法，McCormick的所为导致了什么样的结果”。根据问题中的关键词according to the judge定位第四段的第一句：your cheating conduct … promoted a false sense of security and … contributed to causing death and injury to innocent people（你的欺骗行为提高了人们虚假的安全感并助推给无辜百姓带来死亡和伤害）。由此可见，McCormick的行为让人们有了安全感，但这种安全并不真实。B “降低了人们防范危险的安全意识”符合此意，为正确答案。

41. D。判断题。难度：难。问题是“下面哪种说法对探测仪来说是正确的”。

解题思路：根据问题中的关键词detectors，把四个选项具体对应到原文中一处。A对应文章倒数第二段的最后一句he sold his detectors to the police in Kenya，the prison service in Hong Kong, the army in Egypt and the border control in Thailand。该句中的Kenya是非洲的肯尼亚，否定了A的说法。B对应第一段第一句“the man hadn’t cared about potentially deadly consequences”，法官只说罪犯没有关注潜在的致命后果，而不是已经导致严重的问题。C对应第五段的第一句话“were said to be able to find such dangerous objects as bombs under water and from the air”提示，探测仪的功能只是据说，而不一定真的具备找到水中危险物品的功能。选项D定位第五段的最后一句“in fact they ‘lacked any grounding in science’ and were of no use可知，这种探测仪没有科学根据，也毫无用途，和D“没有科学根据的工作原理”相吻合，故最佳答案是D。

42. D。推理判断题。难度：中等。

解题思路：返回原文，将选项与原文一一进行比较。

本题主要考查第四段和第七段。A“以低价销售设备”与原文第四段第一句不符，因为该句提到法官指控McCormick通过卖一些无用的设备来巨额利润。B“在大多数国家很有名”与文中提到的区区几个国家和地区Iraq，Belgium，Saudi Arabia，Kenya，Hong Kong，Egypt和Thailand购买他的探测仪不符。C“认为他没有犯罪”和第七段对应，其中他所说的“I never had any bad results from customers”和C符合，Ｃ是正确答案。Ｄ“他没有赚取文中提到的那么大利润”在原文没有语言根据。

某中学高二·二班的同学进行了一场有关英语学习的讨论。讨论的题目是：学习英语要不要从儿童时期开始?请根据下表中的提示写一篇短文，介绍讨论的情况。

一些同学认为	另一些同学认为
1．应从儿童时期开始学习英语；	1．不应从儿童时期开始学习英语；
2．儿童时期记忆力好，可以记住很多单词；	2．儿童时期既要学习汉语拼音又要学英语，易混淆；
3．能为英语学习打下坚实的基础。	3．会影响汉语学习和今后的英语学习。
讨论未取得一致意见

注意：1．文章的起始句已给出；        2．词数：100词左右(不包括已给的起始句)。

参考词汇：基础foundation汉语拼音Chinese pinyin

The students of Class 2 had a discussion about whether it would be necessary to start learning English from childhood_____________________________________________________      __

 

 

IV．写作（共两节，满分40分）

第一节     基础写作（共1小题，满分15分）

《纽约时报》11月刊登了DAVID BROOKS的一篇评论文章“The Nation of Futurity”，他提出这种观点“中国崛起使美国产生信仰危机(critis)”。

原因	中国经济的增长速度；中国人的乐观态度
《新闻周刊》 Newsweek 的调查结果	1．86%的中国人认为自己的国家所走的道路是正确的；	美国只有37%的人认为自己的国家走在正确道路上；
2．63%的人相信自己的国家30年之内将成为全球技术领先者；
3．多数中国人认为中国将带来下一场社会变迁．	只有三分之一的美国人认为下一场突破会发生在美国．

【写作内容】

        根据以上内容写一篇短文．

【写作要求】

请用5个句子表达全部所给的内容（短文的开头已给出，不计入总句数）；

【评分标准】

句子结构准确，信息内容完整，篇章结构连贯．

首句已经给出：

The editorial“The Nation of Futurity”was published in New York Times on Nov．17th．．．．．．

                                                                              

 

阅读下列各小题，根据汉语提示，用句末括号内的英语单词完成句子，并将答案写在答题卡上的相应题号后。

例：______ was that the young player performed extremely well in the table tennis tournament. (delight)

令球迷欣喜的是那位年轻的球员在乒乓球锦标赛中表现得极为出色。

答案：What delighted the fans/made the fans delighted

1.Knowing ______ reduces the risks of failure and it works like an insurance policy for your own ability. (do)

知道你正在干什么，能降低失败的风险，这就像给自己的能力买了份保险。

2.Not ______ my parents, I failed to go to a drama school, where my interest lay. (persuade)

由于没有说服我父母，我没能上戏剧学校，而那才是我的兴趣所在。

3. The chief engineer together with his colleagues ______ new scientific methods of farming since five years ago. (look)

五年以来，总工程师和他的同事们一起一直在寻找新的科学农耕方法。

4. When I work on the farmland in the daytime, I always __________ to a tree on the riverbank. (keep)

白天干农活的时候，我总是把羊拴在河边的树上。

5. As time is pressing, I think __________ is the best way to get from here to the conference centre. (take)

由于时间紧迫，我认为从这里去会议中心最好的办法是乘出租车。

6.So fast ______ that we can hardly imagine its speed. (travel)

光传播的速度快到我们难以想象。

7.Through the course of my schooling, I met many teachers, two ______ me greatly. (influence)

上学时我遇到过很多老师，其中两位对我影响很大。

8.I don’t often lose things, so I was quite surprised ___________ my wallet and found it wasn’t there. (reach)

我不常丢东西，所以当我拿钱包却发现钱包不在时，大吃一惊。

9.It is reported in the newspaper that several new subway lines ______ in Wuhan. (build)

据报纸报道，武汉正在建设几条新的地铁线路。

10.Most believe he _______ for England last week, but for a serious injury which put him out of football. (play)

多数人认为，要不是受了重伤而告别足球，上周他本会为英格兰踢球的。