Unit 5自主学习测试题
Directions： Read the following passages carefully. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished sentences. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C, and D. Choose the best answer to each question.
（A）
Throwing criminals in prison is an ancient and widespread method of punishment, but is it a wise one? It does seem reasonable to keep wrongdoers in a place where they find fewer opportunities to hurt innocent people. The system has long been considered fair and sound by those who want to see the guilty punished and society protected. But the value of this form of justice is now being questioned by the very men who have to apply it – the judges.
Does it really help the society, or the victim, or the victim’s family, to put in prison a man who, while drunk at the wheel of his car, has injured or killed another person? It would be more helpful to make the man pay for his victim’s medical bills and compensate him/her for
the bad experience, the loss of working time, and any other problems arising from the accident. If the victim is dead, in most cases the victim’s family would need some financial assistance.
And a young thief who spends time in prison may receive there a thorough education in crime from his fellow prisoners. Willingly or not, he has to associate himself with tough criminals who will drag him into more serious crimes.
Such considerations have caused a number of judges to try some new forms of punishment for light criminals, which are unpleasant enough to discourage the offenders (违法者) from repeating their offenses, but safe for them because they are not exposed to dangerous company. They pay for their crime by helping their victims, financially or otherwise, or doing unpaid labor for their community; or perhaps, they take a job and repay their victim out of their salary. This sort of punishment is applied only to nonviolent criminals who are not likely to be dangerous to the public, such as forgers (伪造者), thieves, and drivers who have caused traffic accidents. The sentenced criminal has the right to refuse the new type of punishment if he prefers a prison term.
1、According to the passage, putting criminals in prison is a widespread method of punishment because ________.
A. the victim and family can not be hurt any more
B. putting criminals in prison started in ancient times
C. throwing criminals in prison is the best form of justice
D. criminals can be prevented from harming innocent people
2、The new forms of punishment of light criminals have the following features except that ________.
A.  they are kept in special rooms in prison
B.  they may work and compensate the victims
C.  they are not exposed to dangerous company
D.  they pay for their crime by helping the victims
3、Which criminal is likely to receive the new forms of punishment?
transform英文A.  A spy.
B.  A thief.
C.  A murderer.
D.  A drug dealer.
4、According to the passage, if a young forger is put to prison, he will probably ________.
A.  correct his wrongdoings             B.  hurt his fellow prisoners
C.  receive a good education            D.  do more serious crimes later
5、The author is of the opinion that ________.
A.  criminals should get paid when they help the victims or the community
B.  light criminals should not be thrown in prison under any circumstances
C.  some new forms of punishment are more helpful to both the victims and the criminals
D.  putting criminals in prison is out of date and we should adopt new forms of punishment
（B）
Since World War II, there has been a clear trend, especially among the growing group of college students, toward early marriage. Many youths begin dating in the first stages of adolescence (青春期), “go steady” through high school, and marry before their formal education has been completed. However, emotional maturity is no respecter of birthdays; it does not arrive automatically at twenty-one or twenty-five. Some achieve it surprisingly early, while others never do, even at the age of seventy.
Many students are marrying as an escape from their own personal problems of loneliness. However any marriage entered into as an escape cannot prove entirely successful. The sad fact is that marriage seldom solves one’s problems; more often, it merely makes them worse. Furthermore, it is doubtful whether the home as an institution is capable of carrying all that the young are seeking to put into it. Young people correctly understand that their parents are wrong in believing that success is the ultimate (最终的) good, but they mistakenly believe that they themselves have found the true center of life’s meaning. Their expectations of marriage are essentially unrealistic, and therefore incapable of fulfillment. They want too much, and disillusionment (幻想破灭) is often sure to follow.
Shall we, then, think early marriages are bad? One cannot draw the conclusion that all early marriages are bad or all later ones are good. Satisfactory marriages are determined not by age, but by the emotional maturity of the partners. Therefore, each case must be judged on its own merits. If the early marriage is not an escape, if it is entered into with relatively few illusions (幻想) or false expectations, and if it is economically practical, why
not? Good marriages can be made from sixteen to sixty, and so can bad ones.

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