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Cautious About the Principle of Zero-Tolerance in School We don t really know what we want. That’s the conclusion of a socia

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问题             Cautious About the Principle of Zero-Tolerance in School
    We don t really know what we want. That’s the conclusion of a social psychologist who decided to test just how committed parents and others are to zero-tolerance polices that many schools have adopted to fight drug use by teenagers.
    Colgate University psychologist Kevin Carlsmith concluded that people fail to recognize that a zero-tolerance policy that seems simple and effective in theory will violate their sense of justice when they see it in practice. And that’s exactly the response I’ve been getting to my column last week about Josh Anderson, the Fairdax high school junior who killed himself on the eve of a disciplinary hearing that was likely to have ended with his expulsion for being caught on campus with a small amount of marijuana.
    I’ve heard from hundreds of parents whose kids—like Josh—have gotten caught up in a punishment system that fails to distinguish between drug users and dealers.
    A Prince William County parent describes how his son faced expulsion after being found with less that one gram of marijuana.
    The boy was not permitted to graduate and had to repeat his senior year through home schooling because the county would not permit him to attend its schools. " It seems incredibly stupid to take a child with problems by removing support," the father writes.
    Carlsmith found that most people choose punishments designed more for retribution than to create deterrence against future wrongdoing. "A person focused on deterring future crime ought to be sensitive to the frequency of the crime, the likelihood of its detection, the publicity of the punishment, and so forth," the professor writes.
    The professor asked participants about a case like a real one in which a 13-year- old girl gave a Midol pill to a friend at school to relieve the friend’s menstrual cramps. The survey asked whether expulsion or student-parent conferences with a guidance counselor would be the better response than expel her. Once they heard the details of the Midol case, 88 percent of those who had earlier endorsed the idea of a zero-tolerance policy reversed themselves.
    We like the idea of zero tolerance and don’t realize how unfairly it can treat people until we are slapped in the face with disproportionate results.
    In the end, the psychologist concludes, "when it comes to introspection, we are all strangers to ourselves."
    In a fascinating postscript, Carlsmith asked whether a school with a zero-tolerance policy had a worse or less severe problem with drug use than a school with a more flexible approach. Those surveyed thought the zero-tolerance school had the more severe problem. Is that what the Fairfax school board really wants to communicate about its schools?
What is the main point of this passage?
选项 A、We are not supposed to adopt zero-tolerance policy to teenagers blindly.
B、It tells us the disadvantages and advantages of zero-tolerance policy.
C、It explains to us the reason why we adopt zero-tolerance policy.
D、We should give drug users severe punishment in order to prevent it from happening.
答案A
解析 主旨大意题。从全文看，零容忍原则这种惩罚机制在处理校园的嗑药学生时是过分严重的，甚至会造成不良的后果。我们不该盲目使用。故[A]“我们不应该盲目地对十几岁的年轻人使用零容忍原则"与原文中心一致。[B]文章告诉我们零容忍度原则的利弊。这不是文中的重点所在，而是要人们对该原则的合理性进行进一步的探讨，故排除；[C]“文章向我们解释了应该采取零容忍原则的原因”，明显与原文不符，故排除；[D]“我们应该给嗑药的人非常严重的惩罚以免这种情况再发生”，与文章的中心不符，故排除。
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