首页
登录
职称英语
News that police in Leeds are looking for an American in their search for th
News that police in Leeds are looking for an American in their search for th
游客
2023-09-16
25
管理
问题
News that police in Leeds are looking for an American in their search for the man who murdered one of their colleagues on Boxing Day fits with the way that gun crime has changed over the past decade. The pattern of offences involving guns looks more and more like that in America: random, careless shootings have replaced the carefully-planned bank robberies of old.
Improvements in technology such as tracking devices, hidden cameras have hardened banks, vans and other traditionally lucrative(有利的) targets so much that pulling on a mask scarcely seems worthwhile. This year, England and Wales saw just 250 bank and building society robberies-down from 1400 in 2001. These days, most armed robberies take place on the street and in shops. In this new environment, old tools and techniques are of little use. Sawn-off(锯短了的) shotguns are handy for robbing banks, mostly for reasons of presentation: they make a terrific noise when fired at the ceiling or floor, and are menacing enough to project a threat through bulletproof glass. They are less useful for robbing today’s "soft" targets, though, so they have mostly been discarded. Sawn-off shotguns were used in just 201 robberies last year-a third the figure of a decade ago-while almost 3841 jobs were done with handguns.
Roger Matthews, professor of criminology(犯罪学) at Middlesex University, says that armed robbery is becoming Americanized, both in the sense that Britain is moving towards late-night convenience store robberies, and also in the sense that anyone can do it. The rise of unskilled robbery-criminals with guns and no previous experience-is bad news for shop workers, who are less well trained in dealing with guns than are bank tellers; it is also bad for the police, who tend to find ill-thought-out crimes harder to solve than planned ones.
For the most part, old dogs disdain the new tricks. Officers in the Flying Squad-the arm of the London Metropolitan Police that deals with armed robbery-say that professional robber tend to follow defined tracks. Betting shop specialists will rarely rob post offices.
With their chosen targets now out of reach, most of the men who terrified Britain’s cities in the 1980s have simply left the business. But not all have gone clean. To repeat Willie Sutton, a legendary American robber, people used to hold up banks because that’s where the money was. These days it is in the international drugs trade, so they gave up robbing. This trade is where many of the old-timers have gone.
选项
A、It is a well-organized deliberate robbery.
B、It is a careless shooting without any planning.
C、It is a gun crime carried out in traditional way.
D、It is a gun crime involving very advanced guns.
答案
B
解析
根据题干中的the gun murder on Boxing Day,可以定位到首段。细节题。根据本文首段可知利兹的警方正在搜捕一名美国人,他在圣诞节后的第一个工作日杀死了他的同事。接着提到…现在随意地、无计划的射杀代替了过去精心策划的银行抢劫。也就是说,这起案件是一起没有精心计划的杀人案。根据本段第2句可知这起持枪杀人案件看起来越来越像美国发生的持枪案件,即现在随意地、无计划的射杀代替了过去精心策划的银行抢劫,所以它不是一起传统的持枪犯罪,故可排除C。
转载请注明原文地址:https://tihaiku.com/zcyy/3020297.html
相关试题推荐
Weadmirehimforhisambitiontobecomeafirst--ratescholarinAmericanStudi
Thepoliceforcedtheirwayintotheroom,onlytofindthesafeempty.A、为了找到那只空
AbouthowmanyadultAmericanshavethe"weightproblem"?______percent.[br]
AbouthowmanyadultAmericanshavethe"weightproblem"?______percent.[br]
Americansdependontheircarsmorethananyotherpeople.Thefamilycarha
Americansdependontheircarsmorethananyotherpeople.Thefamilycarha
Americansdependontheircarsmorethananyotherpeople.Thefamilycarha
[originaltext]M:CanIhelpyou?W:Yes,[8]Iamlookingforanapartmentinth
[originaltext]M:CanIhelpyou?W:Yes,[8]Iamlookingforanapartmentinth
A—ResearchandAnalysisI—FeedbackandEvaluationB—RoleofDepartmentsJ—Publ
随机试题
(1)Atacertainseasonofourlifeweareaccustomedtoconsidereveryspot
AnoverviewofthehistoryofEnglishintheSubcontinent(南亚次大陆)willhelp
TheWorldTradeOrganizationwasestablishedin1995.It【B1】______outofth
[originaltext]Twomonthsago,ZogbyInternational,aWashington-basedresea
美国心理学家卡特尔将智力分为流体智力和晶体智力。其中,流体智力随着机体的衰老而减
患者女性,30岁,右侧上颌第二双尖牙缺失,第一双尖牙牙根有轻度吸收,最佳的固定桥
商业银行先要和公积金管理中心签订( ),取得公积金个人住房贷款业务的承办权之后
下列不属于"外感六淫"的是A.风 B.寒 C.暑 D.湿 E.痰
建设工程项目的可能的资金总供应量属于()。A、资金需求计划的内容 B、资源
有关生物利用度的表述不恰当的是A.指剂型中的药物被吸收进入体循环的速度与程度B.
最新回复
(
0
)