综合英语3试卷

综合英语3期末试卷 得分_________ Part Ⅰ Reading Comprehension Passage A Since Insight exposed the U.S. Postal Service’s program “Under the Eagle’s Eye”, the eyes of many privacy advocates have focused like a laser on the agency. “Warning! The post office c ould report YOU as a drug dealer or terrorist,” reads a press release from the Libertarian Party. Until the Postal Service drops its orders to postal clerks to report certain legal financial transactions as “suspicious activity”, the Libertarian Party and others are urging consumers to purchase money orders, wire transfers and cash cards elsewhere. But now Insight has learned that it’s not just purchases of these financial instruments that the post office reports as suspicious. In a training video obtained by Insight, after a jewelry store owner hands a postal clerk ＄50,000 cash to put on his postage meter, the clerk is told to report this as suspicious transaction. Even though it may be perfectly legal, using this much cash is “strange”, the video says. “If putting a lot of money on your postage meter is a sign of criminal activity, I’m afraid we’re going to have to have a little talk with our own office manager,” says George Getz, spokesman for the Libertarian Party, which uses a postage meter to send mass mailings. “It seems unbelievable. Do you launder money 32 cents at a time? That’s crazy.” According to the Postal Service, even transactions of a few thousand dollars in cash should arouse suspicion. But privacy advocates say it is normal, for instance, for restaurant or store owners who want to send out promotional mailings to go to the post office and put the cash receipts for that day on their postage meters. “Under the Eagle’s Eye” does not apply to purchases of stamps and “philatelic” it ems. But why, then, does the program apply to postage on meters, which is merely “electronic stamps”, asks Rick Merritt, director of Postal Watch. 1) Insight is most probably ________. A) a journal

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B)a writer

C)an employee of postal service

D)one of privacy advocates

2)“Under the Eagle’s Eye” is ________.

A)a kind of postal service

B)a suggestion of Libertarian Party

C)designed to find suspicious activities from common postal practice

D)designed to arrest drug dealer or terrorist

3)Which of the following activities would be repor ted as “suspicious”?

A)Post letters in the postal office.

B)Send mass mailings.

C)Purchase stamps in cash.

D)Put a lot of money on your postage meter.

4)According to the passage, what are postage meters?

A)Money orders.

B)Wire transfers.

C)Cash cards.

D)Electronic stamps.

5)Which of the following might be the topic of the passage?

A)Much cash on postage meter may arouse suspicion.

B)Under the eagle’s eye.

C)Privacy and public safety.

D)Postage meters work perfectly.

Passage B

Fifteen-year-old freshman Charles “Andy” Williams, who is being held in the shooting in California that left two students dead and 13 wounded, was reportedly the butt of jokes, a weekend drinker and one who hung out at a local skate park with kids who did drugs. Had he and his peers received meaningful instructi on in “character formation”, there’s a good chance their sense of respect for themselves and others would have held back the ridiculing and created a better atmosphere.

Many youngsters have a difficult time seeing any moral dimension to their actions. Cons equently, schools stress academic achievement but don’t always identify and reinforce the habits that students need to become virtuous.

But there’s hope. More and more schools, from the rich suburbs to the inner cities, are realizing that good test scores aren’t enough if students aren’t taught to be responsible members of society.