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1、 官方网址官方网址 北大、人大、中财、北外教授创办北大、人大、中财、北外教授创办 集训营、一对一保分、视频、小班集训营、一对一保分、视频、小班、少干、强军、少干、强军 Section 2 Answering questions (20) Directions: Read the following passages and then answer IN COMPLETE SENTENCES the questions which follow each passage. Use only information from the passage you have just read and
2、write your answer in the corresponding space in your answer sheet. Questions 13 At seven oclock each morning a bell sounds in the red brick buildings on the steep bank of the Hudson River at Ossining, New York. As it rings, an entire, separate town of some 2300 persons comes to life. It is the priso
3、n town of Sing Sing, a world of men who are confined but also living, working, playingand hoping. Sing Sing is a town that lives on hope. The seven oclock bell is the signal for Sing Sings 1748 inmates and 514 man staff to begin another round of duties. The prisoners rise, wash and dress. They make
4、up their narrow beds army-style and make certain that the objects on their dressers are regulation neat. By 7:15, when guards come along the runways to unlock the individual cells, the men are ready. They file slowly to the mess hall, falling into step along the way with friends and acquaintances. E
5、ach man grabs a tray and gets a breakfast 官方网址官方网址 北大、人大、中财、北外教授创办北大、人大、中财、北外教授创办 集训营、一对一保分、视频、小班集训营、一对一保分、视频、小班、少干、强军、少干、强军 of oatmeal with milk and sugar, bread, and coffee; he takes his seat at one of the long rows of eating benches, places the tray before him, and begins his breakfast. So start
6、s the day in Sing Sing. Breakfast over, the men file from the mess hall and under the watchful eyes of guards, drop their eating utensils into boxes provided at the doors. At five minutes to eight they go outside in a long, chattering line down to the cluster of prison workshops. The prison has a du
7、al function: it has its own permanent population, but it also serves as a receiving station for the great flow of prisoners from New York City. Here they come to be examined, screened, and eventually transferred to upstate institutions. For the first two weeks, the new arrival is put through a serie
8、s of mental, physical, and psychological examinations and given courses to prepare him for prison life. In each batch of new prisoners there are hardened men for whom prison can serve just one functionto remove them form society and keep them from doing further harm. But in each batch there are also
9、 those who can be helped and encouraged and turned into law-abiding citizens. It is toward these that most of the effort at the prison is directed. Sing Sing is a school, hospital, and factory as well as a prison. If initial tests show that a man is illiterate, he goes to the prison school to receiv
10、e the equivalent of an eighth-grade education. If he needs medical treatment, he is sent to the prison hospital. If he shows some special aptitude, or appears capable of learning a trade, he is assigned to a regular job in one of the shops. The shops cover a wide range of activities. A man may be as
11、signed to the printshop 官方网址官方网址 北大、人大、中财、北外教授创办北大、人大、中财、北外教授创办 集训营、一对一保分、视频、小班集训营、一对一保分、视频、小班、少干、强军、少干、强军 to learn the printers trade, or to the neighboring machine shop, where a twelve-month course turns raw trainees into good auto mechanics. Many of the prisons “graduates,” incapable of earning
12、an honest living before, now support themselves on the good wages they make as skilled workers. The shops are busy until 11:40 a.m., when the men straggle up the slope to the mess hall for dinner. In the afternoons some men go back to the shops. Others may meet and talk with relatives in the prisons
13、 visiting room. Athletes may spend hours running and drilling on the basketball court. The days work ends at 3:30, giving the men more than an hour of relative freedom before the supper whistle sounds at 4:40. With the evening meal, the day ends. The men go directly from the mess hall to their cell
14、blocks and are locked in for the night. Each cell is equipped with a set of radio headphones tuned into programs sent over the prison circuit. A prisoner may read one of the well-thumbed volumes from the prison library, which circulates about 36,000 volumes a year, or he may work, as many inmates do
15、, on a correspondence course to improve his chances of making a living when he gets out. Lights go out at ten oclock. This routine does not vary greatly for any of Sing Sings inmates. “We run the prison like a city of eighteen hundred people, only of course with a lot more police,” says Warden Wilfred I. Denno. “Anything you couldnt do on the outside, you cant do on the inside. You cant fight, you ca
