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Why crime has risen so much further and faster in Britain than in any other rich country over the past half-century is anybody’’s guess. Maybe it’’s the result of near-American levels of relative poverty and family breakdown combined with a European reluctance to bang up quite such a large proportion of the population as America does. Anyway, the long-term causes are of less immediate interest to the government than a short-term solution. Popular concern about crime is rising:23% of people rated it as one of the most important issues for the govenment at the beginning of this year;34% do now. An official report concluding that the criminal justice system is failing has added to the government’’s problems. The Audit (审计) Commission, the government’’s watchdog, says that the police too often charge suspects with the wrong offences, use inaccurate computerized information and face serious inefficiencies in the forensic science (the use of scientific methods by the police) service. Court delays alone are costing taxpayers £ 80m( $120m) a year. The result is that few criminals are brought to justice and even fewer convicted. Only 6% of the more than 5m offences recorded by the police last year resulted in a conviction. Hardly surprising, then, that more than half the public believes that the criminal justice system is ineffective. The main purpose of the White Paper published last year is to address concerns that the procedures of the court are weighted too heavily against the prosecution, It includes many sensible and uncontroversial proposals. It asks for more support for witnesses, many of whom are frightened of testifying. A survey of one London court found that, of 140 witnesses called in a two-week period, only 19 actually turned up. Making juries more representative must also make sense. Getting off jury service is too easy. In some London courts, two-thirds of those called for jury service fail to turn up. As a result ,juries are often composed of housewives, the unemployed and the retired. The White Paper recommends a check on professionals’’ getting off service, who can excuse themselves by saying their work is too important, and proposes penalties for those who fail to comply. Other proposed reforms will be more controversial. At present, no defendant can be tried for the same offence twice even if compelling new evidence emerges. The government’’s plan to scrap that law will be resisted by civil liberties campaigners, as will the proposal that previous convictions should be disclosed in open court where they are relevant to the case being heard. Whether or not such proposals make it into law, the White Paper did not do much to address public concerns. The reason why 94% of crimes do not result in a conviction is that three-quarters of them are not cleared up, and so nobody is charged. That is the fault of the police, not the courts; and that is the part of the criminal justice system that the government needs to focus on if it is to make a difference. Concerning the reason for the fast growth of crime in Britain,

A. anybody can make a guess at it.
B. everybody can have his/her idea
C. nobody can know it for certain
D. anyone can work it out by guess

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A. 转发
B. 路由
C. 线路交换
D. 直通

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A. 三层交换
B. 通信交换
C. 信元交换
D. 线路交换

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A. The French Language
B. The City of Paris
C. Education and Culture in France
D. The Seine River

With the start of BBC World Service Television, millions of viewers in Asia and America can now watch the Corporation’’s news coverage ,as well as listen to it. And of course in Britain listeners and viewers can tune in to two BBC television channels, five BBC national radio services and dozens of local radio stations. They are brought sport ,comedy ,drama, music, news and current affairs, education, religion, parliamentary coverage, children’’s programmes and films for an annual licenee fee of £ 83 per household. It is a remarkable record, stretching back over 70 years―yet the BBC’’s future is now in doubt. The Corporation will survive as a publicly-funded broadcasting organization, at least for the time being, but its role, its size and its programmes are now the subject of a nation-wide debate in Britain. The debate was launched by the Government, which invited anyone with an opinion of the BBC― including ordinary listeners and viewers―to say what was good or bad about the Corporation, and even whether they thought it was worth keeping. The reason for its inquiry is that the BBC’’s royal charter runs out in 1996 and it must decide whether to keep the organization as it is, or to make changes. Defenders of the Corporation―of whom there are many―are fond of quoting the American slogan "If it ain’’t broke, don’’t fix it. "The BBC " ain’’t broke" ,they say, by which they mean it is not broken (as distinct from the word ’’broke’’ ,meaning having no money), so why bother to change it Yet the BBC will have to change, because the broadcasting world around it is changing. The commercial TV channels―ITV and Channel 4―were required by the Thatcher Government’’s Broadcasting Act to become more commercial, competing with each other for advertisers, and cutting costs and jobs. But it is the arrival of new satellite channels―funded partly by advertising and partly by viewers’’ subscriptions―which will bring about the biggest changes in the long term. The world famous BBC now faces_________________.

A. the problem of news coverage
B. an uncertain prospect
C. inquiries by the general public
D. shrinkage of audience

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