60.解析：这是一道主旨题。这篇短文主要讲述了校园安全问题。

第17题(2005年普通高等学校夏季招生考试英语山东卷)

Fidenzio Salvatori is determined that the city of Toronto will have an outdoor marketplace for merchants from its immigrant community, complete with dancing and other forms of amusement form their native countries. “Toronto is truly multicultural (多元文化的)，” he said in a newspaper interview. “It’s a city from many places, and multicultural marketplace will help Torontonians to understand and appreciate the rich variety of cultural groups in our city.”

Salvatori, aged 23, will soon complete his studies at the University of Toronto. He was eleven years old when he came to Canada from Italy with his parents. “Most of Toronto’s immigrants are from lands where the marketplace has always been part of daily life,” he said.

Salvatori has been interested in getting an open-air market for Toronto for the last three years. This year, with the help of two fellow students, he prepared a proposal on the subject and presented it to the city’s Executive committee, asking for their support. The proposal pointed out Toronto’s rich variety of national groups, “whose customs include market shopping.”

Under a Canadian government program for multiculturalism, the three students have received two thousand dollars with which they will do a study to find out whether Toronto’s immigrant businessmen would support an open-air market. They hope the merchants will support the plan strongly. “A study done earlier this year showed that 90 percent of shoppers would be in favor of it,” Salvatori said. “At first it would be an experiment. But we think it will prove to be good business for the merchants, as well as tourist attraction.”

59.解析：这是一道猜测词义题。根据上文中“must report crime statistics by law”可猜测出the honest ones指的是“按法律上报校园犯罪数字的学校”。

58.解析：这是一道猜测词义题。上文校长说没有问题，但从下文可以看出1999年全国有将近400 000严重犯罪事件发生在校园内或校园附近，所以Mahoney不相信校长的话。

57.解析：这是一道细节推断题。根据第四段“Colleges must report crime statistics by law， but

some hold back for fear of bad publicity， leaving the honest ones looking dangerous.”可推断出得到正确信息困难的原因是一些大学隐瞒了校园中犯罪的事实。

56.解析：这是一道细节题。从第一段“Last August Joe and Mary Mahoney began looking at colleges for their 17－year－old daughter， Maureen.”可知，Mahoney夫妇访问许多大学的目的是为他们的女儿选择学校。

60.　 What is the text mainly about?

A. Exact campus crime statistics.　　　 　 　 B. Crimes on or around campuses.

C. Effective solutions to campus crime.　　 　　　 D. Concerns about kids’ campus safety.

答案 56.B57.C58.C59.B60.D

59.　 We learn from the text that　 “the honest ones” in the fourth paragraph most probably refers to colleges ______.

A. that are protected by campus security　 　　　 B. that report campus crimes by law

C. that are free from campus crime　　　 　 D. the enjoy very good publicity

58.　 The underlined word “buy” in the third paragraph means ______.

A. mind　　　 　　　　　　 B. admit　 　 　　　　　　　　 C. believe　 　　　　　 D. expect

57.　 It is often difficult to get correct information on campus crime because some colleges ______.

A. receive too many visitors　　　 　　 B. mirror the rest of the nation

C. hide the truth of campus crime　　　 　 D. have too many watchdog groups

56.　 The Mahoneys visited quite a few colleges last August ______.

A. to express the opinions of many parents　 　　　 B. to choose a right one for their daughter

C. to check the cost of college education　　　　　　 D. to find a right one near a large city