| In the early clays of the United
States, postal charges were paid by the recipient and charges varied with the
distance carried. In 1825, the United States Congress permitted local
postmasters to give letters to mail carriers for home delivery, but these
carriers received no government salary and their entire compensation on what
they were paid by the recipients of individual letters. In 1847 the United States Post Office Department adopted the idea of a postage stamp, which of course simplified the payment for postal service but caused grumbling by those who did not like to prepay. Besides, the stamp covered only delivery to the post office and did not include carrying it to a private address. In Philadelphia, for example, with a population of 150000, people still had to go to the post office to get their mail. The confusion A. The increased use of private mail services. B. The development of a government postal system. C. A comparison of urban and rural postal services. D. The history of postage stamps. [单项选择]Anyone living in the United States in the early 1990s and paying even a whisper of attention to the nightly news or a daily paper could be forgiven for having been scared out of his skin.
The reason was crime. It had been rising relentlessly--a graph plotting the crime rate in any American city over recent decades looked like a ski slope in profile--and it seemed now to predict the end of the world as we knew it. Death by gunfire, intentional and otherwise, had become commonplace. So too had carjacking and crack dealing, robbery and rape. Violent crime was a gruesome, constant companion. And things were about to get even worse. Much worse. All the experts were saying so. The cause was the so-called super predator. For a time, he was everywhere. Glowering from the cover of newsweeklies, swaggering his way through foot-thick government reports, he was a scrawny, big-city teenager with a cheap gun in his hand and nothing in his heart but ruthlessness. There were thousands o A. Newspapers covered a lot of criminal reports in 1990s B. People were not afraid of the criminal facts C. The crime rate increased dramatically in those days D. Experts held a pessimistic view of American future [填空题]Recently, the United States has ceded its early lead in wind development to Asian competitors.
[单项选择]In the United States, 36 states currently allow capital punishment for serious crimes such as murder. Americans have always argued about the death penalty. Today, there is a serious question about this issue: Should there be a minimum age limit for executing criminals In other words, is it right for convicted murderers who kill when they are minors--i, e. , under the age of 18--to receive the death penalty
In most other countries of the world, there is no capital punishment for minors. In the United States, though, each state makes its own decision. Of the 36 states that allow the death penalty, 30 permit the execution of minors. In the state of South Carolina, a convicted murderer was given the death penalty for a crime he committed while he was a minor. In 1977, when he was 17 years old, James Terry Roach and two friends brutally murdered three people. Roach’s lawyer fought the decision to execute him. The young murderer remained on Death Row (a separate part of prison for A. asked the governor for help B. stopped the execution C. let the courts do their job D. fought with the governor 我来回答: 提交
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