2012年四川大学翻译硕士专业考研真题及答案解析.pdf

官方网址官方网址 北大 人大 中财 北外教授创办北大 人大 中财 北外教授创办 集训营 一对一保分 视频 小班集训营 一对一保分 视频 小班 少干 强军 少干 强军 Section 2 Answering questions 20 Directions Read the following passages and then answer IN COMPLETE SENTENCES the questions which follow each passage Use only information from the passage you have just read and write your answer in the corresponding space in your answer sheet Questions 1 3 At seven o clock each morning a bell sounds in the red brick buildings on the steep bank of the Hudson River at Ossining New York As it rings an entire separate town of some 2300 persons comes to life It is the prison town of Sing Sing a world of men who are confined but also living working playing and hoping Sing Sing is a town that lives on hope The seven o clock bell is the signal for Sing Sing s 1748 inmates and 514 man staff to begin another round of duties The prisoners rise wash and dress They make up their narrow beds army style and make certain that the objects on their dressers are regulation neat By 7 15 when guards come along the runways to unlock the individual cells the men are ready They file slowly to the mess hall falling into step along the way with friends and acquaintances Each man grabs a tray and gets a breakfast 官方网址官方网址 北大 人大 中财 北外教授创办北大 人大 中财 北外教授创办 集训营 一对一保分 视频 小班集训营 一对一保分 视频 小班 少干 强军 少干 强军 of oatmeal with milk and sugar bread and coffee he takes his seat at one of the long rows of eating benches places the tray before him and begins his breakfast So starts the day in Sing Sing Breakfast over the men file from the mess hall and under the watchful eyes of guards drop their eating utensils into boxes provided at the doors At five minutes to eight they go outside in a long chattering line down to the cluster of prison workshops The prison has a dual function it has its own permanent population but it also serves as a receiving station for the great flow of prisoners from New York City Here they come to be examined screened and eventually transferred to upstate institutions For the first two weeks the new arrival is put through a series of mental physical and psychological examinations and given courses to prepare him for prison life In each batch of new prisoners there are hardened men for whom prison can serve just one function to remove them form society and keep them from doing further harm But in each batch there are also those who can be helped and encouraged and turned into law abiding citizens It is toward these that most of the effort at the prison is directed Sing Sing is a school hospital and factory as well as a prison If initial tests show that a man is illiterate he goes to the prison school to receive the equivalent of an eighth grade education If he needs medical treatment he is sent to the prison hospital If he shows some special aptitude or appears capable of learning a trade he is assigned to a regular job in one of the shops The shops cover a wide range of activities A man may be assigned to the printshop 官方网址官方网址 北大 人大 中财 北外教授创办北大 人大 中财 北外教授创办 集训营 一对一保分 视频 小班集训营 一对一保分 视频 小班 少干 强军 少干 强军 to learn the printer s trade or to the neighboring machine shop where a twelve month course turns raw trainees into good auto mechanics Many of the prisons graduates incapable of earning an honest living before now support themselves on the good wages they make as skilled workers The shops are busy until 11 40 a m when the men straggle up the slope to the mess hall for dinner In the afternoons some men go back to the shops Others may meet and talk with relatives in the prison s visiting room Athletes may spend hours running and drilling on the basketball court The day s work ends at 3 30 giving the men more than an hour of relative freedom before the supper whistle sounds at 4 40 With the evening meal the day ends The men go directly from the mess hall to their cell blocks and are locked in for the night Each cell is equipped with a set of radio headphones tuned into programs sent over the prison circuit A prisoner may read one of the well thumbed volumes from the prison library which circulates about 36 000 volumes a year or he may work as many inmates do on a correspondence course to improve his chances of making a living when he gets out Lights go out at ten o clock This routine does not vary greatly for any of Sing Sing s inmates We run the prison like a city of eighteen hundred people only of course with a lot more police says Warden Wilfred I Denno Anything you couldn t do on the outside you can t do on the inside You can t fight you can t abuse an officer you can t steal If you do you ll be punished We hold court twice a week and try to make the punishment fit the crime 官方网址官方网址 北大 人大 中财 北外教授创办北大 人大 中财 北外教授创办 集训营 一对一保分 视频 小班集训营 一对一保分 视频 小班 少干 强军 少干 强军 This code is impressed on the prisoner from the start it underlies his every move on every day he spends in Sing Sing He is faced with clear alternatives If he misbehaves he received punishment in the form of restricted privileges or even strict confinement In one typical week there were only five infractions of prison rules most of which were minor One man was reprimanded for not reporting to work on time one for creating a disturbance by trying to shove his way into the mess hall line ahead of those already waiting In three weeks of reports there was only one case of serious outright rebellion against prison discipline An inmate who was to be released in a month suddenly refused to follow an officer s order He was promptly placed in segregation for the rest of his prison term There are no dark holes or bread and water routines at Sing Sing in segregation the cells and the food are the same as in the rest of the prison But a man s movements are restricted He is kept locked in his cell isolated from his fellows and cannot go to the movies or to the commissary If a prisoner behaves he accumulates good time an important source of hope for most prisoners Good time is the time by which through his own good conduct a prisoner may reduce his minimum sentence Good behavior earns a man ten days good time a month So a prisoner facing a three to six year term would be able to appear before the parole board for possible release at the end of two years Release then is not automatic The parole board must consider many other factors All that good time does is to guarantee a prisoner the right to appear before the parole board earlier than he otherwise could The real importance of good time is that it gives a prisoner the one hope that 官方网址官方网址