首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
Every year thousands of people are arrested and taken to court for shop-lifting. In Britain alone, about HK $ 3,000,000 worth of
Every year thousands of people are arrested and taken to court for shop-lifting. In Britain alone, about HK $ 3,000,000 worth of
admin
2014-01-13
37
问题
Every year thousands of people are arrested and taken to court for shop-lifting. In Britain alone, about HK $ 3,000,000 worth of goods are stolen from shops every week. As a result of this "shrinkage" as the shops call it, the honest public has to pay higher prices.
Shop-lifters can be divided into three main categories: the professionals, the deliberate amateur, and the people who just can’t help themselves. The professionals do not pose much of a problem for the store detectives, who, assisted by closed circuit television, can usually cope with them. The professionals tend to go for high value goods in parts of the shops where security measures are tightest. And, in any case, they account for only a small percentage of the total losses due to shop-lifting.
The same applies to the deliberate amateur who is, so to speak, a professional in training. Most of them get caught sooner or later, and they are dealt with severely by the courts.
The real problem is the person who gives way to a sudden temptation and is in all other respects an honest and law-abiding citizen. Contrary to what one would expect, this kind of shop-lifter is rarely poor. He does not steal because he needs the goods and cannot afford to pay for them. He steals because he simply cannot stop himself. And there are countless others who, because of age, sickness or plain absent-mindedness, simply forget to pay for what they take from the shops.
In order to prevent the quite incredible growth in ship-lifting offences, some stores, in fact, are doing their best to separate the thieves from the confused by prohibiting customers from taking bags into the store. However, what is most worrying about the whole problem is, perhaps, that it is yet another instance of the innocent majority being penalized and inconvenienced because of the actions of a small minority. It is the aircraft hijack situation in another form. Because of the possibility of one passenger in a million boarding an aircraft with a weapon, the other 999, 999 passengers must subject themselves to searches and delays. Unless the situation in the shops improves, in ten years’ time we may all have to subject ourselves to a body-search every time we go into a store to buy a tin of beans!
The third group of people steal things because they______.
选项
A、are mentally ill
B、are quite absent-minded
C、can not resist the temptation
D、can not afford to pay for goods
答案
C
解析
细节推理题。根据题干关键词The third group of people steal things定位到原文第四段。第四段首句中的gives way to和a sudden temptation分别与选项C中的can not resist和temptation(诱惑)对应。故答案为C。
转载请注明原文地址:https://jikaoti.com/ti/Y9OYFFFM
0
考博英语
相关试题推荐
Writeapassageabout150wordsonthefollowingtopic:Somepeoplethinkstudyinginauniversityisworthwhileonlybecaus
Cananimalshaveasenseofhumor?SallyBlanchard,publisherofanewslettercalledthePetBirdReport,thinksapetparrotma
Thechairmanoftheboard______onmetheunpleasantjobofdismissinggoodworkersthefirmcannolongeraffordtoemploy.
Ateacherissomeonewhocommunicatesinformationorskillsothatsomeoneelsemaylearn.Parentsarethe【51】teachers.Justby
Whatdotheextraordinarilysuccessfulcompanieshaveincommon?Tofindout,welookedforcorrelations.Weknowthatcorrelati
Themainideaofthesebusiness-schoolacademicsisappealing.Inawordwherecompaniesmustadapttonewtechnologiesandsour
Hurricanesareviolentstormsthatcausemillionsofdollarsinpropertydamageandtakemanylives.Theycanbeextremelydange
AnOhioStateUniversitystudyhaslinkedbehaviorinyoungchildren【C1】______thetypeofjobtheirmotherhas.Motherswithcom
Insomewaystheyareamarketers’dream.Theyhavebillionsofdollarsinincome—andspendmostofit.Althoughtheirindivid
这次到台湾访问交流,虽然行色匆匆,但是,看了不少地方,访了旧友,交了新知,大家走到一起,谈论的一个重要话题就是中华民族在21世纪的强盛。虽然祖国大陆、台湾的青年生活在不同的社会环境中,有着各自不同的生活经历,但大家的内心都深深铭刻着中华文化优秀传统的印记,
随机试题
下列属于行政立法主体的是()
关于髋关节前后位摄影的叙述,正确的是
影像采集系统的功能不包括
慢性肺心病患者,近一周来咳嗽加剧,双肺有湿啰音,双下肢水肿,血WBC及中性粒细胞分类均增高。动脉血气分析:pH7.30,PaCO210.64kPa(80mmHg),PaO23.99kPa(30mmHg),BE+4.0mmol/L,HCO3—34mmol/L
A、巴豆B、火麻仁C、甘遂D、芦荟E、京大戟用于热结便秘的药物是
为评估某写字楼2000年10月31日的正常市场价格,在该写字楼附近地区调查选取了A、B、C三宗类似写字楼的交易实例作为可比实例,相关资料为:成交价格:可比实例A,5000人民币元/m2,可比实例B,600美元/m2;可比实例C,5500人民币元/m2;成交
理财规划师在对客户现金流量表进行分析时,应特别注意的是( )。Ⅰ.应具体分析各收入支出项目的数额及其在总额中所占的比例Ⅱ.对客户财务状况影响较大的经常性项目应重点关注Ⅲ.现金流量表分析并不重要Ⅳ.任何客户都应该努力保持正的净现金流量
刘鑫认为法律可以帮助人维持公正,但同时认为契约和法律的规定并不是绝对的,可以应大多数人的要求而改变,当它不符合时就应该修改。根据科尔伯格的理论,他处于道德发展的哪个阶段?()
农业在国民经济中的基础地位主要表现在( )。
设有关系模式R(E,N,M,L,Q),其函数依赖集为F={E→N,EM→Q,M→L},则关系模式R达到了(53),该关系模式(54)。(54)
最新回复
(
0
)