(一)Real policemen hardly recognize any resemblance between their lives and what they see on TV if they ever get home in time. There are similarities, of course, but the policemen don’t think much of them.The first difference is that a policeman’s real life centers around the law. Most of his training is in criminal law. He has to know exactly what actions are crimes and what evidence can be used to prove them in court. He has to know nearly as much law as a professional lawyer, and what is more, he has to apply it on his feet, in the dark and rain, running down a narrow street after someone he wants to talk to.Little of his time is spent in chatting to pretty girls or in dramatic confrontations(对峙)with desperate criminals. He will spend most of his working life typing millions of words on thousands of forms about hundreds of sad, unimportant people who are guilty or not of stupid, minor crimes.Most television crime drama is about finding the criminal: as soon as he’s arrested, the story is over. In real life, finding criminals is seldom much of a problem. Except in very serious cases like murders and terrorist attacks where failure to produce results reflects on the fame of the police little effort is spend on searching.Having made an arrest, a detective(侦探)really starts to work. He has to prove his case in court and, to do that, he often has to gather a lot of different evidence. So, as well as being overworked, a detective has to be out at all hours of the day and night interviewing his witnesses and persuading them, usually against their own interests, to help him.1. What does the first paragraph tell us about policemen?
A. They often watch TV.
B. They like watching TV.
C. They are too busy to watch TV.
D. They hate seeing themselves on TV.
Why does the writer mention a lawyer in the second paragraph?
A. To show that a lawyer’s job is more comfortable.
B. To emphasize that policemen are physically strong.
C. To compare a lawyer’s knowledge with a policeman’s.
D. To indicate that a lawyer’s job is less important than a policeman’s.
( 二)Every human being has a unique arrangement of the skin on his fingers and this arrangement is unchangeable. Scientists and experts have proved the uniqueness of fingerprints and discovered that no exactly similar pattern is passed on from parents to children, through nobody knows why this is the case.The structure on a person’s fingers does not change with growth and is not affected by super facial injuries. Burns, cuts and other damage to the outer part of the skin will be replaced in time by new skin which bears a reproduction of the original pattern. It is only when the inner skin is injured that the arrangement will be destroyed. Some criminals make use of this fact to remove their own fingerprints but this is a dangerous and rare step to take.Fingerprints can be made easily with printer’s ink. They can be recorded easily. With special methods, identification(辨别)can be achieved successfully within a short time. Because of the simplicity and economy of this system, fingerprints have often been used as a method of solving criminal cases. A suspected man denies a charge, but his fingerprints can prove who he is even if his appearance has been changed by age or accident.When a suspect leaves fingerprints behind at the scene of crime, they are difficult to detect with the naked eye. Special techniques are used to “develop” them. Some of the marks found are incomplete but identification is possible if a print in the size of a quarter of an inch square can be obtained.6. Which of the following is NOT true of fingerprints?
A. They vary from person to person.
B. They are easily hidden and removed.
C. Their uniqueness is beyond explanation.
D. They remain unchanged throughout one’s life.
(三)In a family where the roles of men and women are not sharply separated and where many household tasks are shared to a greater or lesser extent, male superiority is hard to maintain. The pattern of sharing in tasks and in decisions makes for equality, and this in turn leads to further sharing. In such a home, the growing boy and girl learn to accept that equality more easily than did their parents and to prepare more fully for participation in a world characterized by co-operation rather than by the “battle of the sexes”.If the process goes too far and man’s role is regarded as less important and that has happened in some cases we are as badly off as before, only in reverse.It is time to reassess(重新评估)the role of the man in the American family.We are getting a little tired of “Momism”—but we don’t want to exchange it for a “Neo-popism”(新式爸爸主义). What we need, rather, is the recognition that bringing up children involves a partnership of equals. There are signs that specialists on the family are becoming more aware of the part men play and that they have decided that women should not receive all the credit nor all the blame. We have almost given up saying that a woman’s place is in to home. We are beginning, however, to analyze men’s place in the home and to insist that he does have a place in it. Nor is that place irrelevant to the healthy development of the child.11.What will the world be like in the future according to Passage One?
A. It will be a world of male superiority.
B. It will be a world of equality between the sexes .
C. It will be a world with battles between the sexes.
D. It will be a world where men and women play different roles.