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1、 凯程考研，为学员服务，为学生引路！2018年考研英语法学类阅读专项练习暑期集训来了，如何在暑期两个月创造出双倍的价值是每个考生想要达到的目标。这就需要加倍的努力和科学的规划了。英语方面的复习，大家要持续性背单词，阅读、写作及翻译要多加练习，总结方法技巧，活学活用。下面凯程在线和大家分享法学类的阅读模拟题，大家不妨集中练习，提升阅读速度和做题技巧。For hundreds of years，the criminal law has been built around the idea that wrongdoers must be punished for their crimes.The m
2、ost basic argument for punishment is that it preserves law and order and respects for authority.From this point of view，punishment does two things.It upholds the law，and it prevents others from thinking they can get away with doing the same thing without punishment.Punishment is based on the idea th
3、at many people have a barely controlled desire to act in forbidden ways.One of the best ways to reduce crime is to reform or rehabilitate habitual criminals.The main problem is not the first offender or the petty thief but the repeated offender who commits increasingly serious crimes.According to cr
4、iminologists，crime would decrease greatly if all such offenders could be turned away from wrongdoing.But U.S.prisons have had little success in rehabilitating inmates.About two-thirds of the people arrested in any year have a previous criminal record.Rehabilitation of criminals could probably be imp
5、roved greatly if experts could provide the right kind of program for different types of offenders.Criminals vary widely in the kinds of crimes they commit，their emotional problems，and their social and economic backgrounds.Not all offenders can be helped by the same treatment.Many require the aid of
6、physicians，psychiatrists，or psychologists.Others respond well to educational or vocational training.In the early 1990s，there were about 1，300，000 criminals in U.S.city，county，state，and federal correctional institutions，and about 500，000 more were out on parole.Society spent more than $15 billion to
7、operate prisons and related institutions yearly，but only a small part of this sum went to provide treatment.Nearly all the funds were used to feed and clothe prisoners and to keep them under control.Since the 1ate 1970s，however，there has been a trend toward punishment rather than rehabilitation of o
8、ffenders.Prison sentences are longer.Capital punishments have been used more frequently since the U.S.Supreme Court lifted a death penalty ban in 1976.Nevertheless，crime prevention should aim to prevent people from becoming criminals in the first place.Such a goal probably would benefit from reform
9、programs in urban slums.These programs would include improved housing，schools，and recreation programs and increased job opportunities.There are many other ways to reduce crime.People can be educated or persuaded to take greater precautions against crime.They can be taught，for example，how to protect
10、their homes from burglary.Automobile thefts would drop sharply if drivers removed their keys and locked their cars when leaving them.Better lighting helps discourage purse-snatchings and other robberies on city streets and in parks.Many experts believe that strict gun-licensing laws would greatly re
11、duce crime.1.The belief that people tend to behave in forbidden ways_.A leads to the formulation of the criminal lawB makes people value order above all elseC convinces people that crimes should be eliminated from the societyDis a false one that should not be taken seriously2.In the second paragraph
12、 the author implies_.A the U.S.prison system is not working effectively enough to reform criminalsB the best way to reduce crime rate is to rehabilitate habitual criminalsC reforming criminals in prison will turn them away from wrongdoingD crimes would decrease if peoples desire could be healthily c
13、hanneled3.The author speculates that rehabilitation can be made more effective if_.A reform is directed to the criminals emotional problemsB rehabilitation is aimed at changing the economic and social environmentC rehabilitation is facilitated by physicians，psychiatrists or psychologistsD crimes are dealt with in the ways that suit each kind4.According to the author，punishment is a better means than rehabilitation in reducing crime rate_.A so it should be used in pla
