2016专四改革新题型：阅读简答题练习（2）

2016专四改革新题型：阅读简答题练习（2）

　　2016英语专四改革，阅读部分最大的变化是增加了“简答题”(Short Answer Questions)共20分，10道选择，5道简答题。两相比较，后者显得更重要，得分更容易。答案简短(不超10词)，大多能从文中找到原词。新东方在线英语专四频道整理了2016专四改革新题型：阅读简答题练习供考生们参考。

　　Policemen, both in Britain and the United States, hardly recognize any likeness between their lives and what they see on TV.

　　The first difference is that a policeman's real life centers round 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 as a professional lawyer, and what is more, he has to apply it on his feet, running down as alley after someone he wants to talk to.

　　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, petty crimes.

　　Most television crime drama is about the criminal. In real life, finding criminals is seldom much of a problem. Except in very serious cases like murders and terrorist attack where failure to produce results reflects on the standing of the police—little effort is spent on searching. The police have a well-designed machinery which eventually shows up most wanted men.

　　Having made an arrest, a detective 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. Much of this has to be given by people who don't want to get involved in a court case. 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 to help him.

　　A third big difference is the unpleasant moral twilight in which the real one lives. Detectives are subject to two opposing pressures: firstly, as members of a police force they always have to behave with absolute legality: secondly, as expensive public servants they have to get results. They can hardly ever do both.

　　If the detective has to deceive the world, the world often deceives him. Hardly anyone he meets tells him the truth. And this separation the detective feels between himself and the rest of the world is deepened by the simple-mindedness as he sees it, of citizens, social workers, doctors, lawmakers, and judges, who instead of stamping out crime, punish the criminals less severely in the hope that this will make them reform. The result, detectives feel, is that ninetenths of their work is recatching people who have stayed behind bars. This makes them rather cynical.

　　1. It is essential for a policeman to be trained in criminal law because

　　2. The everyday life of a policeman or detective is

　　3. When murders and terrorist attack occur the police

　　4. The real detective lives in “an unpleasant moral twilight" because

　　5. Detectives are rather cynical because

　　参考答案

　　1. so that he can justify his arrests in court

　　2. wasted on unimportant matters

　　3. prefer to wait for the criminal to give himself away

　　4. he is forced to break the law in order to preserve it

　　5. society does not punish criminals severely enough

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