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[单项选择]Many states have gone on prison-building sprees, yet the penal system is choked to bursting. To ease the pressure, nearly all convicted felons are released early—or not locked up at all. "About three of every four convicted criminals," says John DiIulio, a noted Princeton criminologist, "are on the streets without meaningful probation or parole supervision. " And while everyone knows that amateur thugs should be deterred before they become career criminals, it is almost unheard-of for judges to send first-or second-time offenders to prison.
Meanwhile, the price of keeping criminals in cages is appalling—a common estimate is $30,000 per inmate per year. (To be sure, the cost to society of turning many inmates loose would be even higher. ) For tens of thousands of convicts, prison is a graduate school of criminal studies: They emerge more ruthless and savvy than when they entered. And for many offenders, there is even a certain cachet to doing time—a stint in prison becomes a sign o
A. many states do not have enough prisons for offenders.
B. building more prisons does not reduce street crimes.
C. the legal system is not strict enough to be effective.
D. probation and parole without supervision are meaningless.
[单项选择]I ______India many times.
[A] have gone to [B] have been to [C] went
[单项选择]He is not in the office. He must have gone to have classes, ______
A. didn’t he
B. doesn’t he
C. mustn’t he
D. hasn’t he
[填空题]The central heating system seems to have gone wrong.______ (为什么不叫修理工检查一下呢)
[单项选择]Three of them have gone to the library. What about ______
[A] the other [B] the others [C] others
[填空题]I accept that the romance may have gone out of the marriage, but surely this_________________(许多夫妻都一样).
[单项选择]()the English examination I would have gone to the concert last Sunday.
A. In spite of
B. But for
C. Because of
D. As for
[单项选择]Is the News Believable
Unless you have gone through the experience yourself, or watched a loved one’s struggle, you really have no idea just how desperate cancer can make you. You pray, you rage, you bargain with God, but most of all you clutch at any hope, no matter how remote, of a second chance at life.
For a few excited days last week, however, it seemed as if the whole world was a cancer patient and that all humankind had been granted a reprieve (痛苦减轻). Triggered by a front-page medical news story in the usually reserved New York Times, all anybody was talking about — on the radio, on television, on the Internet, in phone calls to friends and relatives — was the report that a combination of two new drugs could, as the Times put it, "cure cancer in two years."
In a matter of hours patients had jammed their doctors’ phone lines begging for a chance to test the miracle cancer cure. Cancer scientists raced to the phones to make sure everyone knew about their rese
A. give up any hope.
B. pray for the health of his loved ones.
C. go out of his way to help others.
D. seize every chance of survival.
[单项选择]They should have gone earlier, ______
A. have they B. didn’t they G. haven’t they D. shouldn’t they
[单项选择]
—I should have gone to see the film with you.
—( ).
A. That’ s terrible
B. It doesn’ t matter to me
C. What a pity
D. I’m ashamed