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Tom Burke recently tried to print out a boarding pass from home before one of the frequent flights he takes. He couldn’t. His na
Tom Burke recently tried to print out a boarding pass from home before one of the frequent flights he takes. He couldn’t. His na
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2010-11-27
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问题
Tom Burke recently tried to print out a boarding pass from home before one of the frequent flights he takes. He couldn’t. His name, or one similar to it, is now on one of the Transportation Security Administration’s terrorist watch lists.
Every day, thousands of people like Burke find themselves unable to do things like print a boarding pass and are pulled aside for extensive screening because their name, or a name that sounds like theirs, is on one of the watch lists. From the TSA’s perspective, the screening is just one of the many new layers of increased security that are designed to prevent terrorist activity. The inconvenience is regrettable, but a price that society has to pay for security. And for national security reasons, the FBI and other government agencies responsible for supplying names to the lists will not disclose the criteria they use. They say that would amount to tipping their hands to the terrorists.
But civil libertarians are more concerned about the long-term consequence of the current lists. On Sept. 11, 2001, the no-fly list contained 16 names. Now, the combined lists are estimated to have as many as 20,000. Internal FBI memos from agents referred to the process as "really confused" and "not comprehensive and not centralized. Burke and others contend that such comments are disturbing, because it was during the first year after the attacks that the watch lists grew exponentially.
"The underlying danger is not that Tom Burke can no longer get a boarding pass to get on an airline", says a lawyer. "It’s that the Tom Burkes in the world may forever more be associated (with the terrorist watch list)". Burke says they do know that the lists are frequent[y updated and distributed internationally, but they don’t know how the old lists are destroyed. They also hope to ensure that sometime in the future a person whose name is on the list, but is not a terrorist, does not run into further trouble if, say, law enforcement in another country that they’re visiting comes across their name on one of the old lists.
In addition, airlines are concerned that the lists are not updated frequently enough. "We’ve been encouraging the TSA to work with all of the other federal law-enforcement agencies to get a regular review of the names that they submit to TSA, because there have been reports that these agencies have said that if there was a review, many of the names could be removed", says Diana Cronin of the Air Transport Association.
选项
A、terrorist attacks are launched frequently.
B、many people’s names are similar to known terrorists.
C、the screening system is not effective enough.
D、terrorists are not accurately identified after 9.11.
答案
D
解析
本题问禁止登机名单上的名字从16人快速增长到20,000人最可能的原因是什么。首段及第二段都在讲由于一些人的名字与恐怖分子的名字相似而被安全部门禁止登机。从下文的叙述可以看出作者对安全部门工作的不周全有无奈和责怪之意。故禁飞名单上的名字大幅增多主要是安全部门工作的不周全所致,因此"9.11后没有准确地鉴定恐怖分子"正确。恐怖袭击频繁:这一点文中并没有提到,实际上是在9.11恐怖袭击之后联邦调查局就加强了保安措施,而不是由于恐怖袭击频繁而导致名单上人数的增加。许多人的名字和已知恐怖分子的名字相同:在9.11事件以前也有人的名字和恐怖分子的名字相像,但那时名单上并没有那么多人,所以这并不是名单上名字激增的原因。真正原因是因为9.11事件发生后政府防护措施不严谨。安检系统的不够有效:文中提到数千人被叫到一旁进行进一步检查,就是因为他们的姓名,或者和他们的姓名相似的名字上了黑名单。也就是说,禁止登机的人的名单制定在先。这与"安检系统的有效性"无关。
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