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lts in our legal feel there is no question that juveniles convicted of serious crimes should face the same consequences as the teenage population in the United States has declined over the past decade,violent crimes mitted by juveniles have sharply is mon knowledge that the youth murderarrest rate has climbed of teen crime are vivid and and television frequently report that youths with no apparent motives have shot and killed other effect on both families and society is the increase in serious crimes mitted by young offenders,the punishment which juveniles receive has traditionally almost never fit the severity of the the system has historically viewed children as not being fully developed,physically or mentally,it has prevented them from being held accountable for their many of these“children”mit horrible crimes,they have been routinely treated as victims of very recently,1ighter sentences and court proceedings have been the message they sent to serious juvenile criminals is that crime “pays” because there are no serious consequences for their the system lacks an element of fear,there is nothing to prevent youthful offenders from mitting future current trend of assigning adult sentences to youths who mit serious crimes is absolutely just if the punishment is to fit the prorehabilitation advocates argue that juvenile criminals are pletely different from adult ones and should,therefore,be treated differently in the justice ,the cost to society is the same regardless of the age of the fort does it give to the family of a killed or injured victim that the person who killed or hurt their loved one was a minor? Families suffer no less because their relatives are shot by young of treating the loser who murders innocent people like a victim of society,this person should be treated like any other person who victimizes society and causes pain to individuals and measures must be taken to bat this growing problem of juvenile today‘s society,too many juveniles count on light sentences given by the juvenile justice can help a vicious criminal receive a short sentence,and return to the streets to mit more there are no harsh consequences of being caught,mitting crimes can be perceived as having positive a result,juveniles are continuing to bee more violent and 1ess concerned with the value of human ,remended by many as the solution to juvenile crime,should be directed only towards youths who have mitted minor ,the juveniles who mit serious crimes should be tried as message has to be sent that we will no longer tolerate brutal crimes simply because of the age of the youths must be held pletely accountable for their crimes,suffering harsh consequences and ultimately realizing that they are no longer protected by the can be inferred that juvenile criminals are those____.[A]who are under the age of 16 可銳教育官網(wǎng)years old[B]who are not accountable for the crimes they mit[C]who can not tell major crimes from minor crimes[D]who are more likely to bee victims of the society violent juvenile crimes are on the rise is manifested by the fact that____.[A]penalty for juvenile criminals is being more and more serious[B]the society can no longer tolerate juvenile crimes[C]youth murderarrest rate has dramatically increased[D]the young population has increased in the last ten years reason why young people are being increasingly violent is that____.[A]the older they bee,the stronger they are[B]they receive lighter punishment than they should[C]they do not know the value of human life[D]there is now too much violence in newspaper and on television to the author,one reason why violent juvenile criminals should suffer the same fate as their adult counterparts is that____.[A]there are as many juvenile crimes as adult crimes[B]they have done equivalent injuries to the victim or the society[C]they are clearly aware of what they are doing at the time of offence[D]no other penalty can prevent them from mitting future crimes advocates insist that____.[A]rehabilitation be directed only towards youths who mit minor crimes[B]stricter sentences be given only to youths who mit brutal crimes[C]a different justice system be applied to minors since they are not fully developed[D]minors be held pletely responsible for any kind of crimes they mit答案與題解1.[A] 參閱第一段第一句。2.[C] 參閱第二段第二句。4.[B] 參閱第四段第二、三、四句。二.In the following article, some sentences have been Questions 15, choose the most suitable one from the list A—G to fit into each of the numbered are two extra choices, which do not fit in any of the )Many of the options have already been rehearsed in the press: excluding some treatments from the NHS, charging for certain drugs and services, and developing voluntary or pulsory health insurance )we spend about 7 per cent of GDP on health, pared with 9 per cent in the Netherlands and 10 per cent in France and terms of health outes versus spend, we pare pretty don t see private health care providing much of the solution to current )Neither is close to being implemented, but the future could see a deliberate shift of attention to voluntary health insurance and an emphasis on social )Even so, higher taxes 可銳教育官網(wǎng)will plainly be needed to fund health think we ll eventually see larger NHS charges, more rationing of medical services and restrictions on certain procedures without proven eligibility criteria for certain treatments are another )None of them is going to win votes for the political party desperate enough to introduce them— but then nobody is going to vote for illhealth or an early death either.[A]English National Health Service is a universal healthkeeping Now, the shortage of money bees a serious problem.[B]All such options would mean a sharp break with tradition and political fallout that could be extremely damaging.[C]The options provides solution to the shortage of money problem.[D]I expect individuals to take greater responsibility for their pers