Question

LONDON---A British judge on Thursday sentenced a businessman who sold fake（假冒的）bomb detectors（探测器）to 10 years in prison, saying the man hadn’t cared about potentially deadly consequences.

         It is believed that James McCormick got about $ 77.8 million from the sales of his detectors---which were based on a kind of golf ball finder---to countries including Iraq, Belgium and Saudi Arabia.

         McCormick, 57, was convicted（判罪）of cheats last month and sentenced Thursday at the Old Bailey court in London.

         “Your cheating conduct in selling a great amount of useless equipment simply for huge profit promoted a false sense of security and in all probability materially contributed to causing death and injury to innocent people,” Judge Richard Hone told McCormick. “You have neither regret, nor shame, nor any sense of guilt.”

         The detectors, sold for up to $ 42, 000 each, were said to be able to find such dangerous objects as bombs under water and from the air. But in fact they “lacked any grounding in science” and were of no use.

         McCormick had told the court that he sold his detectors to the police in Kenya, the prison service in Hong Kong, the army in Egypt and the border control in Thailand.

         “I never had any bad results from customers,” he said.

1.Why was McCormick sentenced to prison?

A. He sold bombs.                                          B. He caused death of people.

C. He made detectors.                                   D. He cheated in business.

2.According to the judge, what McCormick had done         .

A. increased the cost of safeguarding

B. lowered people’s guard against danger

C. changed people’s idea of social security

D. caused innocent people to commit crimes

3.Which of the following is true of the detectors?

A. They have not been sold to Africa

B. They have caused many serious problems.

C. They can find dangerous objects in water.

D. They don’t function on the basis of science.

4.It can be inferred from the passage that McCormick         .

A. solo the equipment at a low price

B. was well-known in most countries

C. did not think he had committed the crime

D. had not got such huge profit as mentioned in the text

Answer

1.Ｄ

2.Ｂ

3.Ｄ

4.Ｃ

【解析】

试题解析：本文是一篇记叙文。本文记叙了英国一位商人出售没有安全保障有可能伤及无辜的炸弹探测仪，属于假冒伪劣产品而被判处十年监禁，商人和法官之间一段言辞的较量。

1.Ｄ细节理解题。McCormick被判坐牢的原因是在商业中进行诈骗，注意不选B致人死亡，因为文中materially contributed to causing death只是说有造成他人死亡的隐患但没有说致人死亡，所以D正确。

2.Ｂ 细节理解题。根据第四段第一句话Your cheating conduct in selling a great amount of useless equipment simply for huge profit promoted a false sense of security and in all probability materially contributed to causing death and injury to innocent people可以推断出他所做欺骗行为促进了了人们错误的安全意识，也就是降低了人们防范危险的意识，所以B正确。

3.Ｄ细节理解题。A项错在文中倒数第二段he sold his detectors to the police in Kenya卖到了Kenya肯尼亚当然在非洲，B错在文中并没有提到造成严重的后果，且McCormick说了“I never had any bad results from customers。C选项错在social security，文中没有提到，根据倒数第三段in fact they “lacked any grounding in science” and were of no use.，D正确。

4.Ｃ推理判断题。根据最后一段“I never had any bad results from customers,” he said.，即他说的话可以知道他认错态度不好，并不认为自己的所作所为有多么的恶劣，所以C正确。

考点：考查记叙文的理解。