America put more people in prison in the 1990s than in any decade in its history. That started a debate over the wisdom of spend

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问题     America put more people in prison in the 1990s than in any decade in its history. That started a debate over the wisdom of spending billons of dollars to keep nearly 2 million people locked up. According to statistics, the United States ends 1999 with 1, 983, 084 men and women in prisons. That shows an increase nearly 840, 000 prisoners during the 1990s and makes the United States the country with the highest prison population in the world. With the cost of housing a prisoner at about MYM20, 000 a year, the cost in 1999 keeping all these prisoners behind bar is about MYM39 billion.
    Some experts argue that the money is well spent, saying the cost of keeping prisoners behind back doesn’t seem much in comparison to the cost of crime to society. They also point out that the rise in the prisoner population in the 1990s coincided with(与……相一致)a steady drop in the US crime rates. It is reported that serious crime has decreased for seven years continuously. "There are a noticeable number of people who don’t do crimes because they don’t want to go to prison, " they say.
The author’s attitude towards the government’s policy is______.

选项 A、negative
B、positive
C、doubtful
D、unknown

答案D

解析 观点态度题,做该类题目的关键就是找到作者自己所说的话,但是作者的态度经常会比较隐晦,需要考生去细心挖掘,多从一些形容词和副词入手。本文中作者本文中除了描述了一些事实,讨论了一些专家的意见,并没有发表自己的任何意见。做此题,不可忽略原文,妄加推断。
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