Section C
Directions: In this section, you will hear a passage three times. When the passage is read for the first time, you should listen carefully for its general idea. When the passage is read for the second time, you are required to fill in the blank numbered from 36 to 43 with the exact words you have just heard. For blanks numbered from 44 to 46 you are required to fill in the missing information. For these blanks, you can either use the exact words you have just heard or write down the main points in your own word. Finally, when the passage is read for the third time, you should check what you have written.
注意:此部分试题请在答题卡2上作答。
I'm interested in the criminal justice system of our country. It seems to me that something has to be done if we are to (36)______ as a country. I certainly don't know what the answers to our problems are. Things certainly get (37)______ in a hurry when you get into them. But I wonder if something couldn't be done to deal with some of these problems.
One thing I'm concerned about is our practice of putting (38)______ in jail who haven't harmed anyone. Why not work out some system (39)______ they can pay back the debts they owe society instead of (40)______ another debt by going to prison, and of course, coming under the (41)______ of hardened criminals? I'm also concerned about the short prison sentences people are (42)______ for serious crimes. Of course, one alternative to this is to (43)______ capital punishment, but I'm not sure I would be for that. I'm not sure it's right to take an eye for eye. (44)________________________________________. I also think we must do something about the insanity plea, In my opinion,anyone who takes another person's life intentionally is insane; however, (45)________________________________________. It's sad, of course, that a person may have to spend the rest of his life, or (46)________________________________________.