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1、银行招聘考试：英语练习五想要了解更多，还在等什么？微信搜索“shoffcn”，参与答题闯关，获取更多资料。关注“上海中公教育”微博账号，更多惊喜等着你！Part I Reading ComprehensionDirections: There are 4 passages in this part. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A), B), C)and D). You should deci
2、de on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center.Passage 1The great bulk of expert opinion is that owing a gun undermines rather than increases safety: the function of discouraging burglars or other criminals is more than offset by oth
3、er factors. First come the suicides: in 1986,18,153 people shot themselves to death. No one on knows how many might have lived if they had been unable to pick up a gun and how many might have merely chosen other means to end their lives. But surely the presence of a loaded gun in a bureau drawer mus
4、t have tempted many, particular teens, to yield to a black depression that might have lifted had the means to carry out the dark wish not been so readily available.Then come the accidental shootings, many by foolish guys who never bother to learn how to handle their weapons. More heartbreaking are t
5、he frequent incidents of children picking up their parentsguns and finding out in the most disastrous way that they are not toys; for example, an eight-year-old boy who shot his six-year-old sister dead last week in Fairfax. Then there are the quarrels between spouses, between parents and their chil
6、dren, between neighbors and friends that suddenly turn fatal because one or both can pick up a gun. Police commonly estimate that if a household gun is ever used at all, it is six times as likely to be fired at a member of the family or a friend as at an intruder. (It is even more likely, says Dr. C
7、arl Bell, a Chicago psychiatrist, that the gun will be stolen; gun are prime targets for burglars because they can be easily and profitably sold to other criminals.)And finally, in the relatively rare shoot-outs between householders and burglars that do occur, it might easily be the burglar who prov
8、es more skilled in handling his guns and the householder who winds up in morgue(停尸房).Adding all types of deaths together, Mercy and Houk, researchers from the Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control, point out that “during the last two years, the number of people who died of injuries inflicted by
9、firearms in the United States exceeded the number of casualties during the entire 8.5-year Viet Nam conflict.”Mercy and Houk judged that “injury from firearms is a public-health problem whose toll is unacceptable.”Another group of researchers presented evidence that lax U.S. gun laws might be to bla
10、me. The team, headed by emergency room surgeon John Henry Sloan, studied a pair of cities just 140 miles apart: Seattle and Vancouver. The two cities had similar unemployment rates, household incomes, law-enforcement policies and even favorite TV shows. Two differences: in Canada, handgun ownership
11、is tightly restricted; in Washington State, guns are more easily purchased. And between 1980 and 1986 Seattle had 388 homicides, vs. 204 Vancouver.1. According to most experts, possessing a gun _.A) can not guarantee your safetyB) does more than assure you safetyC) leads to more suicidesD) can only
12、frighten thieves2. “To carry out the dark wish”in the last sentence of the first paragraph means _.A) killing oneselfB) shooting othersC) yielding to depressionD) picking up a gun3. Which of the following statements is NOT true?A) Many children become the victims of playing gunsB) A household gun is
13、 more likely to aim at a familiar personC) Accidental shootings often happen when people are quarrellingD) A gun at home is very likely to be taken away by burglars4. The word “lax”in the first sentence of the last paragraph most probably means_.A) differentB) unrestrictedC) funnyD) not strict5. The
14、 author cites the two cities as an example to demonstrate that _.A) what matters is to carry out the gun lawsB) all states must have the same gun lawsC) gun ownership must be strictly restrictedD) gun laws have little effectPassage 2Ever since Darwins theory of evolution, biologists have assumed tha
15、t environments teeming with complex forms of life served as the nurseries of evolution. But two recent papers in Science magazine have turned that notion on its head. Last month some biologists reported that in the ocean it is the relatively barren areas that serve as “evolutionary crucibles(熔炉),”no
16、t regions with great diversity of species. Other researchers announced this summer that the Arctic, not the rain forest, spawned many plants and animals that later migrated to North America. Says John Sepkoski of the University of Chicago, “Harsh environments may be producing the major changes in the history of life.”The
