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The condemned person is put to death painlessly, without ropes, voltage, bullets, or gas. Did this answer the objections of death penalty opponents? Of course not. On June 22, 1984, The New York Times published an editorial that sarcastically attacked the new “hygienic” method of death by injection, and stated that “execution can never be made humane through science.” So it's not the method that really troubles opponents. It's the death itself they consider barbaric．

Admittedly, capital punishment is not a pleasant topic. However, one does not have to like the death penalty in order to support it any more than one must like radical surgery, radiation, or chemotherapy in order to find necessary these attempts at curing cancer. Ultimately we may learn how to cure cancer with a simple pill. Unfortunately, that day has not yet arrived. Today we are faced with the choice of letting the cancer spread or trying to cure it with the methods available, methods that one day will almost certainly be considered barbaric. But to give up and do nothing would be far more barbaric and would certainly delay the discovery of an eventual cure. We may not like the death penalty, but it must be available to punish crimes of cold-blooded murder, cases in which any other form of punishment would be inadequate and, therefore, unjust. If we create a society in which injustice is not tolerated, incidents of murder-the most flagrant form of injustice-will diminish．

67．How did Texas respond to the protests mentioned in Paragraph 1?

A．No one was ever executed there later on．

B．The criminal there was put to death in the gas chamber instead．

C．Life of the condemned person there was terminated with a shot of drug．

D．The murderer there was punished with life imprisonment instead．

68．What is the main idea of Paragraph 1?

A．The objections of death penalty have become less severe．

B．The death itself is considered inhumane and unacceptable．

C．Death penalty opponents only care about how one is put to death．

D．The “hygienic” way of execution is even more barbaric．

69．It can be safely inferred that the author______．

A．supports capital punishment

B．is trying to learn how to cure cancer

C．fears that someone might be punished by mistake

D．likes radical surgery, radiation and chemotherapy

70．The author's analogy between cancer and murder is made in order to show______．

A．the lack of perfect solution to the present problems

B．the new discovery of modern science

C．the necessity of doing nothing till an ultimate cure is available

D．the availability of adequate punishment

71．Which of the following stands for the author's attitude?

A．Letting the injustice spread if we don't want to be barbarous．

B．Minimizing incidents of murder by means of death penalty．

C．Being tolerant of people's choice of not having any medical treatment．

D．Looking for a better form of punishment than death penalty．

72．What type of writing is mostly adopted in this passage?

A．Narration.

B．Classification.

C．Exemplification.

More and more, the operations of our businesses, governments, and financial institutions are controlled by information that exists only inside computer memories. Anyone clever enough to modify this information for his own purposes can reap substantial rewards. Even worse, a number of people who have done this and been caught at it have managed to get away without punishment.

It’s easy for computer crimes to go undetected if no one checks up on what the computer is doing. But even if the crime is detected, the criminal may walk away not only unpunished but with a glowing recommendation from his former employers.

Of course, we have no statistics on crimes that go undetected. But it’s disturbing to note how many of the crimes we do know about were detected by accident, not by systematic inspections or other security procedures. The computer criminals who have been caught may been the victims of uncommonly bad luck.

For example, a certain keypunch operator complained of having to stay overtime to punch extra cards. Investigation revealed that the extra cards she was being asked to punch were for dishonest transactions. In another case, dissatisfied employees of the thief tipped off the company that was being robbed.

Unlike other lawbreakers, who must leave the country, commit suicide, or go to jail, computer criminals sometimes escape punishment, demanding not only that they not be charged but that they be given good recommendations and perhaps other benefits. All too often, their demands have been met.

Why? Because company executives are afraid of the bad publicity that would result if the public found out that their computer had been misused. They hesitate at the thought of a criminal boasting in open court of how he juggled the most confidential records right under the noses of the company’s executives, a accountant,and security staff. And so another computer criminal departs with just the recommendations he needs to continue his crimes elsewhere.

1. It can be concluded from the passage that ().

A. it is still impossible to detect computer crimes today

B. computer crimes are the most serious problem in the operation of financial institutions

C. computer criminals can escape punishment because they can’t be detected

D. people commit computer crimes at the request their company

2.It is implied in the third paragraph that ().

A. many more computer crimes go undetected than are discovered

B. the rapid increase of computer crimes is a troublesome problem

C. most computer criminals are smart enough to cover up their crimes

D. most computer criminals are smart enough to cover up their bad luck

3. Which of the following is mentioned in the passage?()

A. A strict law against computer crimes must be enforced.

B. Companies need to impose restrictions on confidential information.

C. Companies will guard against computer crimes to protect their reputation.

D. Companies usually hesitate to uncover computer crimes.

4.What may happen to computer criminals once they are caught?()

A. With a bad reputation they can hardly find another job.

B. They will be denied access to confidential records.

C. They may walk away and easily find another job.

D. They must leave the country or go to jail.

5.The passage is mainly about ().

A. why computer crimes are difficult to detect by systematic inspections

B. why computer criminals are often able to escape punishment

C. how computer criminals manage to get good recommendation from their former employers

D. why computer crimes can’t be eliminated