LONDON - A British judge on Thursday sentenced a businessman who sold fake (假冒的) bomb detectors (探測(cè)器) to 10 years in prison, saying the man hadn't cared about potentially (潛在的) deadly consequences.
It is believed that James McCormick got about $77.8 million from the sales of his detectors ---which were based on a kind of golf ball finder---to countries including Iraq, Belgium and Saudi Arabia. McCormick, 57, was convicted (判罪) of cheats last month and sentenced Thursday at the Old Bailey court in London.
"Your cheating conduct in selling a great amount of useless equipment simply for huge profit promoted a false sense of security and in all probability materially contributed to causing death and injury to innocent people," Judge Richard Hone told McCormick. "You have neither regret, nor shame, nor any sense of guilt."
The detectors, sold for up to $42,000 each, were said to be able to find such dangerous objects as bombs under water and from the air. But in fact they "lacked any grounding in science" and were of no use. McCormick had told the court that he sold his detectors to the police in Kenya, the prison service in Hong Kong, the army in Egypt and the border control in Thailand.
"I never had any bad results from customers," he said.
小題1: Why was McCormick sentenced to prison?
A．He sold bombs.B．He caused death of people.
C．He made detectors.D．He cheated in business.
小題2: According to the judge, what McCormick had done _______.
A．increased the cost of safeguarding
B．lowered people's guard against danger
C．changed people's idea of social security
D．caused innocent people to commit crimes
小題3:Which of the following is true of the detectors?
A．They have not been sold to Africa.
B．They have caused many serious problems.
C．They can find dangerous objects in water.
D．They don't function on the basis of science.
小題4:It can be inferred from the passage that McCormick _______.
A．sold the equipment at a low price
B．was well-known in most countries
C．did not think he had committed the crime
D．had not got such huge profit as mentioned in the text

小題1:D
小題2:B
小題3:D
小題4:C

試題分析：一位商人因把高爾夫球探測(cè)器當(dāng)作炸彈探測(cè)器而被倫敦法官判處10年的徒刑，其判決的理由是會(huì)造成極大的人員傷亡以及安全成本，但是這位商人卻不認(rèn)為他已經(jīng)犯罪了。
小題1:細(xì)節(jié)題：根據(jù)文章第一段第一句LONDON - A British judge on Thursday sentenced a businessman who sold fake(假冒的) bomb detectors(探測(cè)器) to 10 years in prison以及第三段第一句McCormick, 57, was convicted(判罪) of cheats last month可以得出：他在商業(yè)中欺詐，選D。
小題2:細(xì)節(jié)題：根據(jù)第四段第一句"Your cheating conduct in selling a great amount of useless equipment simply for huge profit promoted a false sense of security and in all probability materially contributed to causing death and injury to innocent people,"（你以獲取暴利販賣大量無用器材這一欺騙行為會(huì)誤導(dǎo)人們對(duì)安全的防范以及在很大程度上導(dǎo)致大量無辜人員的傷亡。）可以得出本題答案選B。
小題3:細(xì)節(jié)題：根據(jù)文章第五段最后一句But in fact they "lacked any grounding in science" and were of no use.可以得出這種監(jiān)控器沒有科學(xué)依據(jù)，本題答案選D。
小題4:推理題：根據(jù)文章第四段最后一句you have neither regret, nor shame, nor any sense of guilt.以及最后一段"I never had any had results from customers," he said.可以得出：他不認(rèn)為自己犯罪了，本題答案選C。
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