LONDON—A British judge on Thursday sentenced a businessman who sold fake (假冒的) bomb detectors (探測器) to 10 years in prison,saying the man hadn’t cared about potentially 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 on 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, “and 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 “l(fā)acked 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.
( ) 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.
( ) 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
( ) 3. Which of the following is TRUE about the detec tors?
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.
( ) 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
[文章大意]本文是一篇新聞報道。文章講述了商人McCormick 出售假炸彈探測器被判刑的事。
1. D根據(jù)文章第一段中的"A British judge on Thursday sen?tenced a businessman who sold fake (假冒的) bomb detectors (探測器) to 10 years in prison..."可知，一位英國商人出售假冒炸彈探測器被判處10年監(jiān)禁。故選D.
2. B根據(jù)文章第四段中的"'Your cheating conduct in selling a great amount of useless equipment simply for huge profit pro?moted a false sense of security and in all probability materially contributed to causing death and injury to innocent people,7 …"可以推知，McCormick的行為會給人們提供錯誤的安全意識，可能導致無辜的人死亡或受傷。故選B.
3. D根據(jù)文章倒數(shù)第二段中的"…h(huán)e sold his detectors to the police in Kenya…"可知A錯誤;根據(jù)文章最后一段中的"'I never had any bad results from customers”…"可知B項與其意思相反；根據(jù)文章倒數(shù)第三段中的"The detectors…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."可知C項錯誤;根據(jù)文章倒數(shù)第三段中的"But in fact they'lacked any grounding in science' and were of no use."可知D項正確。
4. C根據(jù)文章的最后一句"'I never had any bad results from customers”he said."可知，他認為他沒導致嚴重的后果，所以，他不應該被治罪。故選C.
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