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A．He would like to go shopping with Nick.B．He has to finish an article today.C．He is a
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Directions: There are 2 passages in this section. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. You should decide on the best choice.
News that police in Leeds are looking for an American in their search for the man who murdered one of their colleagues on Boxing Day fits with the way that gun crime has changed over the past decade. The pattern of offences involving guns looks more and more like that in America: random, careless shootings have replaced the carefully-planned bank robberies of old.
Improvements in technology such as tracking devices, hidden cameras have hardened banks, vans and other traditionally lucrative(有利的) targets so much that pulling on a mask scarcely seems worthwhile. This year, England and Wales saw just 250 bank and building society robberies-down from 1400 in 2001. These days, most armed robberies take place on the street and in shops. In this new environment, old tools and techniques are of little use. Sawn-off(锯短了的) shotguns are handy for robbing banks, mostly for reasons of presentation: they make a terrific noise when fired at the ceiling or floor, and are menacing enough to project a threat through bulletproof glass. They are less useful for robbing today's "soft" targets, though, so they have mostly been discarded. Sawn-off shotguns were used in just 201 robberies last year-a third the figure of a decade ago-while almost 3841 jobs were done with handguns.
Roger Matthews, professor of criminology(犯罪学) at Middlesex University, says that armed robbery is becoming Americanized, both in the sense that Britain is moving towards late-night convenience store robberies, and also in the sense that anyone can do it. The rise of unskilled robbery-criminals with guns and no previous experience-is bad news for shop workers, who are less well trained in dealing with guns than are bank tellers; it is also bad for the police, who tend to find ill-thought-out crimes harder to solve than planned ones.
For the most part, old dogs disdain the new tricks. Officers in the Flying Squad-the arm of the London Metropolitan Police that deals with armed robbery-say that professional robber tend to follow defined tracks. Betting shop specialists will rarely rob post offices.
With their chosen targets now out of reach, most of the men who terrified Britain's cities in the 1980s have simply left the business. But not all have gone clean. To repeat Willie Sutton, a legendary American robber, people used to hold up banks because that's where the money was. These days it is in the international drugs trade, so they gave up robbing. This trade is where many of the old-timers have gone.
Which of the following is a right description of the gun murder on Boxing Day？
A．The man watched the movie last night.B．The man missed reading the paper of yesterday
A．He has been tired of doing the same things everyday.B．He is in a bad mood for some s
The world is undergoing tremendous changes. The rise of globalization, both economic and cultural trend that has swept throughout the world, has forged new ground as we enter the 21st century. But are the effects of globalization always positive？ Some say no.
Michael Tenet, head of the International Institute for Foreign Relations in Atlanta, is worried about current resentment throughout the world toward the rise of globalization. "Ever since the 1980s and the economic breakdown of the Asian Tigers in the late 1990s, there has been a re-evaluation of the role of globalization as a force for good," he said. "Income in many countries has declined and the gap between the most rich and the most poor has been worsened. Without further interference by governments, we could see a tragedy expressed in an increased level of poverty throughout the Latin America and Asia."
Yet George Frank, an influential economist who works on Wall Street, sees no such danger. "Economic liberalization, increased transparency and market-based reforms have positive effect in the long run, even if market mechanisms can produce short term destabilization problems," he said. "What is most important is that barriers to trade continue to fall so that active competition for consumer goods reduces prices and in turn raises the average level of income."
Others feel that globalization's cultural impact may be more important than its economic implications. Janice Yawee, a native of Africa, feels strongly that globalization is weakening her local culture and language. "Most of the world's dialects will become extinct under globalization. We are paving the world with McDonald's and English slang. It tears me up inside," she said.
However, ignoring the political dimensions of globalizations has already had its cost. Nowhere was this made clearer than in the East Asian economic crisis of the late 1990's—particularly in Indonesia. In the wake of that crisis, the President Suhatro's regime was overthrown, and the entire country has been thrown into a mess. The Indonesian economy has contracted almost 50 percent, throwing tens of millions of people below the poverty line.
Governments of different countries have had mixed responses to the wave of globalization. The United States is generally seen as an active proponent of greater free trade, and it certainly has enormous cultural influence by virtue of its near monopoly on worldwide entertainment. So the challenge faced by the new Bush administration is not the challenge of the 1990's. But other countries, most notably in Europe and developing nations, have sought to reduce the impact that globalization has on their domestic affairs.
It can be inferred that Michael Tenet's attitude toward globalization is probably ______.
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