1997年3月上海市高级口译笔试真题
时间:2005-10-4 0:05:59 作者:alex
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luding primary schools, issue guidance to head teachers and launch a national helpline for parents.
The Home Office estimates that heroin users financing their habit were responsible for thefts and robberies worth up to ￡864 million in 1992. In any one year, some three million people take an illegal drug. Most police forces only caution people caught using soft drugs for the first time.
Tony Newton, the chairman of the Cabinet sub-committee on the misuse of drugs, highlighted the shift in strategy and publicly recognised the "intractable" nature of the problem. "We always want to learn from experience. I think some of the shock tactics that have been used in one or two earlier campaigns have not proved as effective as we would have liked."
The 114-page Green Paper, Tackling Drugs Together, has jettisoned earlier language about "drug abusers" and the "war on drugs", talking instead of "drug users" while putting a premium on pragmatic, community-led initiatives.
It concedes that contact with drugs is now part of growing up. The paper says: "As part of adolescence and maturing, young people experiment with different values and behaviours. While this strategy proposes a strong emphasis on preventing young people from misusing drugs in the first place there will still be some who choose to experiment even if they have both the knowledge and the skills to resist peer pressure."
Eric Forth, the education minister, said that some schools had been inclined to ignore the drugs problem, because even talking about it risked giving them a bad name. He said: "We hope that by acknowledging the need to deal with this problem, saying it's something that all schools should be doing, we will give action against drugs the seal of approval."
16. Which of the following summarizes the main idea of the passage?
(A) The government admits its failure in fighting against drugs.
(B) The Home Office will continue its policy to reduce drug-related crime.
(C) The government plans to change its strategy against drugs.
(D) Police forces fully support government's policy against drugs.
17. It can be inferred from the passage that shock tactics against drugs ________.
(A) have never received full support from all parties
(B) have laid stress on prohibition of drug use and punishment
(C) have often proved as effective as expected
(D) have concentrated on preventing people from misusing drugs
18. Which of the following can best replace the word "jettisoned" used in paragraph 5?
(A) Adopted. (B) Supported.
(C) Criticized.
The Home Office estimates that heroin users financing their habit were responsible for thefts and robberies worth up to ￡864 million in 1992. In any one year, some three million people take an illegal drug. Most police forces only caution people caught using soft drugs for the first time.
Tony Newton, the chairman of the Cabinet sub-committee on the misuse of drugs, highlighted the shift in strategy and publicly recognised the "intractable" nature of the problem. "We always want to learn from experience. I think some of the shock tactics that have been used in one or two earlier campaigns have not proved as effective as we would have liked."
The 114-page Green Paper, Tackling Drugs Together, has jettisoned earlier language about "drug abusers" and the "war on drugs", talking instead of "drug users" while putting a premium on pragmatic, community-led initiatives.
It concedes that contact with drugs is now part of growing up. The paper says: "As part of adolescence and maturing, young people experiment with different values and behaviours. While this strategy proposes a strong emphasis on preventing young people from misusing drugs in the first place there will still be some who choose to experiment even if they have both the knowledge and the skills to resist peer pressure."
Eric Forth, the education minister, said that some schools had been inclined to ignore the drugs problem, because even talking about it risked giving them a bad name. He said: "We hope that by acknowledging the need to deal with this problem, saying it's something that all schools should be doing, we will give action against drugs the seal of approval."
16. Which of the following summarizes the main idea of the passage?
(A) The government admits its failure in fighting against drugs.
(B) The Home Office will continue its policy to reduce drug-related crime.
(C) The government plans to change its strategy against drugs.
(D) Police forces fully support government's policy against drugs.
17. It can be inferred from the passage that shock tactics against drugs ________.
(A) have never received full support from all parties
(B) have laid stress on prohibition of drug use and punishment
(C) have often proved as effective as expected
(D) have concentrated on preventing people from misusing drugs
18. Which of the following can best replace the word "jettisoned" used in paragraph 5?
(A) Adopted. (B) Supported.
(C) Criticized.
