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专题限时检测(二十)　阅读理解主旨大意类之标题归纳题 (加★的为标题归纳题，本卷限时23分钟) A (2015·徐州市高三考前信息卷)If you are looking for an explanation of why we dont get tough with criminals, you need only look at the numbers. Each year almost a third of the households in America are victims of violence or theft. This amounts to more than 41 million crimes, many more than we are able to punish. Besides, we already have 412,000 criminals locked in prisons. The painful fact is that the more crime there is the less we are able to punish it. We think that punishment deters (抑制) crime, but it just might be the other way around. It just might be that crime deters punishment: that there is so much crime that it simply cannot be punished. Just as the decline in the number of high-school graduates has made it easier to gain admission to the college, the gradual increase in the criminal population has made it more difficult to get into prison: some of the most exclusive prisons now require about five previous serious crimes before an inmate is accepted into their correctional program. Our current crop of prisoners is an elite (精英) group, much more serious offenders than those who were once imprisoned in Alcatraz — the federal prison famous for housing the most dangerous criminals. These features show that it makes little sense to blame the police, judges or correctional personnel for being soft on criminals. There is not much else they can do. The police can?t find most criminals and those they do find are difficult and costly to punish. A few statistics from the Justice Department?s recent“Report to the Nation on Crime and Justice” illustrate my point. Of every 100 serious crimes committed in America, only 33 are actually reported to the police. Of the 33 reported, about six lead to arrest. Of the six arrested, only three are prosecuted and convicted. Of the three convicted, only one is sent to prison. Of the select few sent to prison, more than half receive a maximum sentence of five years. The average inmate, howeve