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新视野大学英语book4 unit2快速阅读答案 Part 4 Skimming and Scanning (Multiple Choice + Blank Filling)(每小题： 分) Directions: Read the following passage and then answer the questions. For questions 1-7, choose the best answer from the four choices marked A, B, C and D. For questions 8-10, complete the sentences with the information given in the passage. Questions 1 to 10 are based on the following passage. Locked Away Forever The Sad Case of Rebecca Falcon One night when she was just 15, Rebecca Falcon got drunk and made the decision that ruined her entire life. Now, she is serving a life sentence without chance of parole (假释) at the Lowell Correctional Institution in Ocala, Florida. Looking back, Falcon faults her choice of friends. I was like a magnet for the wrong crowd, she says. At the time, Falcon was living with her grandmother in Panama City, Florida. On November 19, 1997, upset over an ex-boyfriend, she downed a large amount of alcohol and hailed a taxi with an 18-year-old friend. Her friend had a gun and, within minutes, the taxi driver was shot in the head. The driver, Richard Todd Phillips, 25, died several days later. Each of the teenagers later said the other had done the shooting. In Falcons case, she was found guilty of murder, though it was never known precisely what happened. It broke my heart, says Steven Sharp, one of the people who made the decision to send Falcon to prison. Tough as it is, based on the crime, I think its appropriate. Still, its terrible to put a 15-year-old behind bars forever. Falcons case is not so uncommon in the US, but it is rare around the world. About 9,700 American prisoners are serving life sentences for crimes they committed before age 18. More than a fifth have no chance for parole. Life without parole is available for young criminals in about a dozen countries, but a recent report by Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International found only 12 young criminals—in Israel, South Africa, and Tanzania—serving such sentences. In the U.S