GRE阅读练习：美国警力匮乏无人应征.docxVIP

Word文档下载后（可任意编辑） 第 第 PAGE 1 页 共 NUMPAGES 1 页 GRE阅读练习：美国警力匮乏无人应征 GRE阅读训练：GRE阅读练习：美国警力匮乏无人应征 GRE考试精品课程指导  Police departments struggle to stay fully staffed.  警察系统艰难维持满员状态。  STAR WARS can be used to sell almost anything, from Lego to a career in policing.  星球大战可以作为从乐高到开辟政治生涯等几乎所有事情的噱头。  Fort Worth’s police department released a recruitment video on its Facebook page in December featuring an officer at target practice with a storm trooper.  12月，沃斯堡的警察局在脸书上发布了一条招募视频，画面中是一个官员和暴风兵(星球大战中的人物)进行目标打击训练。  The white-clad soldiers are notoriously poor shots, and the video shows the galactic GI missing every attempt he makes until he creeps so far forward that his goggles are very nearly touching his target.  这些身着白衣的暴风兵们一直以枪法没有准星“著称”，在视频里，这些星际士兵们除非蹑手蹑脚接近目标直到面对面，否则没法中靶。  When the exasperated officer asks “who referred you to us?”, Darth Vader peeks out from the back of the room, shaking his helmeted head in disgust.  当被激怒的官员问到：“到底是谁把你招进来的?”，黑武士正在房间后面偷看，嫌弃的摇了摇他戴着黑色头盔的头。  The scrolling text at the end of the video, which has garnered 17m views thus far, urges: “Join our Force! If you have what it takes to be a Fort Worth Police Officer and are a better aim than a Storm trooper.”  这个视频在网上有1700万的播放量，视频最后的滚动字幕上显示着：“如果你有成为沃斯堡警官的资历并且能比暴风兵更擅长射击，那就加入我们吧!”  The advert underscores a serious problem affecting police forces nationwide.  这则招募广告揭示了现在全国警局面临的一个问题。  Economic and social changes have made it harder for police departments to keep their forces fully staffed, and lead to increasingly desperate recruitment.  经济和社会的发展使得警局难以维持充足的警力，也就导致了这些孤注一掷的招募。  The Los Angeles Police Department was short of nearly 100 officers as of mid-December—only 1% of its total workforce, but still enough to be felt on the ground, says Captain Alan Hamilton, who runs recruitment for the department.  负责警署招募工作的阿兰-汉密尔顿警监谈到：“洛杉矶警察署自12月中旬起空缺近100个职位，虽然这只占职工总数的1%，但是这依然有着切实的影响。”  Philadelphia had 350 vacancies, largely due to a spate