2015考研英语阅读专项训练：报刊文章精选题目 (2)
下面为考生提供考研英语暑期阅读专项训练题，报刊文章阅读及解析，希望通过大量的阅读，切实提高阅读速度和做题技巧。2015考研英语阅读专项训练：报刊文章精选题目 (2)
Minority youths are more likely to face trial as adults
A WHITE KID SELLS A BAG OF COCAINE at his suburban high school. A Latino
kid does the same in his inner-city neighborhood. Both get caught. Both are
first-time offenders. The white kid walks into juvenile court with his parents,
his priest, a good lawyer-and medical coverage. The Latino kid walks into court
with his mom, no legal resources and no insurance. The judge lets the white kid
go with his family; he's placed in a private treatment program. The minority kid
has no such option. He's detained.
There, in a nutshell, is what happens more and more often in the
juvenile-court system. Minority youths arrested on violent felony charges in
California are more than twice as likely as their white counterparts to be
transferred out of the juvenile-justice system and tried as adults, according to
a study released last week by the Justice Policy Institute, a research center in
San Francisco. Once they are in adult courts, young black offenders are 18 times
more likely to be jailed-and Hispanics seven times more likely-than are young
white offenders. "Discrimination against kids of color accumulates at every
stage of the justice system and skyrockets when juveniles are, tried as adults,"
says Dan Macallair, a co-author of the new study. "California has a double
standard: throw kids of color behind bars, but .rehabilitate white kids who
commit comparable crimes."
Even as juvenile crime has declined from its peak in the early 1990s,
headline grabbing violence by minors has intensified a get-tough attitude. Over
the past six years, 43 states have passed laws that make it easier to try
juveniles as adults. In Texas and Connecticut in 1996, the latest year for which
figures are available, all the juveniles in jails were minorities. Vincent
Schiraldi, the Justice Policy Institute's director, concedes that "some kids
need to be tried as adults. But most can be rehabilitated."
Instead, adult prisons tend to brutalize juveniles. They are eight times
more likely to commit suicide and five times more likely to be sexually abused
than offenders held in juvenile detention. "Once they get out, they tend to
commit more crimes and more violent crimes," says Jenni Gainsborough, a
spokeswoman for the Sentencing Project, a reform group in Washington. The
system, in essence, is training career criminals. And it's doing its worst work
among minorities.
注(1)本文选自By Anamaria Wilson Time; 02/14/2000, Vol. 155 Issue 6, p68,
1/3p
注(2)本文习题命题模仿对象1997年真题text 5(其中因1997年真题text 5只有4个题目，所以本文第4题模仿参照对象为1999年 Text
4的第4题。)
1. From the first paragraph we learn that _________.
the white kid is more lucky than the minority kid
the white kid has got a lot of help than the minority kid
the white kid and minority kid has been treated differently
the minority kid should be set free at once.
2. According to the passage, which of the following is TRUE?
Kids shouldn't be tried as adults.
Discrimination exists in the justice system.
Minority kids are likely to commit crimes.
States shouldn't pass the laws.
3. The word "skyrocket" (Line 13, Paragraph 2) means ________.
rising sharply
widening suddenly
spreading widely
expanding quickly
4. It can be inferred from the last paragraph that ________.
something seems to be wrong with the justice system
adult prisons have bad influence on the juveniles
juveniles in adult prison are ill-treated
the career criminals are trained by the system
5. The passage shows that the author is _________ the present
situation.
amazed at
puzzled by
disappointed at
critical of
答案：CBAAD
页:
[1]