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。

　　答案与简析：

　　76. famous前加上a。 （名词数）。 77. 正确 78. we前面加when，引导一个时间状语从句。（句子成分多分析） 79. them→us （逻辑错误须关注） 80. visiting→visited（非谓动词细辨别） 81. picture→pictures（名词数） 82. passes→passed（动词形） 83. 去掉down（习惯用法要记住） 84. and→but（but, and, or和so） 85. 去掉at（句子成分多分析 / 习惯用法要记住）。

  

 (一)

Most families in China hoped their single children will          76．_______

have a happy future, so they are very strict in their children.  77．_______

So do teachers in schools! Many children are given so much       78．_______

homework that they have hardly any spare time have sports.       79．_______

The children are forbidden to do anything but to study. No       80．_______

wonder so many children are tired of lessons. Some even          81．_______

attack or kill his parents and teachers! I believe many people   82．_______

already read this kind of news in newspapers or magazines.       83．_______

Shouldn't we draw lesson from the accidents? Now our             84．_______

government is making out a plan to solve the education problems. 85．_______

阅读理解

　　New York-About one fifth of US college and universities don't require the standard entrance exams, known as the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT)(学业能力倾向测试) and American College Test (ACCT), for many high school applicants(申请者).

　　Fair Test, a Cambridge, Massachusetts group that supports less trust on testing, said last week it counted 383 out of 1,788 four-year schools that don't want entrance exams at all.

　　The last Fair Test court managed three ago proved 280 schools that don't require entrance tests. The total rose for two reasons: More college dropped the exams, and the other clarify(澄清) their admission rules.

　　The Fair Teat survey follows last month's call from the University of California to end the SAT admission requirement. President Richard Atkinson wants students judged by want they have learned, not how they have scored.

　　Last summer, the elite(优秀人才) women's school, Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts, declared applicants no longer need submit(呈交) scores from the SAT test of reasoning.

　　Some high schools also are questioning the roles of admission test. Still the exams aren't going away. Even as some colleges give up entrance tests, others are using or replacing them. Some are giving scores less weight, asking instead for essay(论文), references and out-of-school activities.

　　The non-profit(非赢利的) College Broad, which owns the SAT, notes the majority of colleges and universities still demand a test score for applicants. The SAT and ACT were established decades ago by colleges and universities as a way of. predicting(预告) a student's success.

　　Critics(批评家) have long attacked the test as unfair, mainly because whites tend to do better than other groups.

1．From the first paragraph we can know that in America ________.

[　　]

A．colleges and universities do not require any entrance exams

B．colleges and universities are short of students

C．colleges and universities don't all need entrance exams

D．colleges and universities entrance exams are too difficult

2．It can be found in this passage that ________.

[　　]

A．Fair Test is a test that is more difficult than SAT

B．Fair Test is a test that is much easier than ACT

C．Fair Test is an organization that does research on exams

D．Fair Test is a group the organizes better exams over Americans

3．The underlined sentence “the exams aren't going away” means ________.

[　　]

A．the exams are unnecessary for students

B．the exams will soon be stopped

C．the exams will remain at the same level

D．the exams are still demanded

4．From this passage we can conclude that ________.

[　　]

A．white students are cleverer than other students

B．the entrance exams will be stopped by the government

C．colleges and universities have different requirements

D．none of the students are satisfied with the entrance exams