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Every year thousands of people are arrested and taken to court for shop-lifting. In Britain alone, about HK $3, 000, 000’s worth
Every year thousands of people are arrested and taken to court for shop-lifting. In Britain alone, about HK $3, 000, 000’s worth
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2013-07-02
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问题
Every year thousands of people are arrested and taken to court for shop-lifting. In Britain alone, about HK $3, 000, 000’s worth of goods are stolen from shops every week. This amounts to something like HK $ 150 million a year, and represents about 4 per cent of the shops’ total stock. 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, two-way mirrors and various other technological devices, 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. When caught, all are liable to prosecution, and the decision whether to send for the police or not is in the hands of the store manager.
In order to prevent the quite incredible growth in shop-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 example of aircraft hijack situation is cited to show that______.
选项
A、the professionals do not pose much of a problem for the stores
B、the third type of shop-lifters is dangerous people
C、some people simply forget to pay for what they take from the shops
D、the honest public have to be inconvenienced
答案
D
解析
推理判断题。末段最后两句指出:由于一百万名乘客中可能会有一个人携带武器登机,另外999999个乘客就必须受到搜查以致延误了时间。要是商场的状况得不到改善的话,恐怕在未来十年中,即使我们每次到商场买一瓶豆子都将必须接受搜身检查。根据这两句话的类比关系可以确定选项[D]为正确答案。
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