职称英语2011真题理工A历年真题(4)

职称英语考试,历年真题

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第 4部分:阅读理解 (第 31~45题,每题 3分 ,共 45分)

下面有3篇短文，每篇短文有5道题。请根据短文内容，为每题定1个最佳选项。

第一篇 Calculating Crime

When you think about math, you probably don’t think about breaking the law, solving mysteries or finding criminals. But a mathematician in Maryland does, and he has come up with mathematical tools to help police find crooks.

People who solve crimes look for patterns that might reveal the identity of the criminal. It’s long been believed, for example, that crooks will break the law closer to where they live, simply because it’s easier to get around in your own neighborhood. If police see a pattern of robberies in a certain area, they may look for a suspect who lives near the crime scenes. So, the farther away from the area a crime takes place, the less likely it is that the same criminal did it.

But Mike O’Leary, a mathematician at Towson University in Maryland, says that this kind of approach may be too simple. He says that police may get better clues to the location of an offender’s home base by combining these patterns with a city’s layout and historical crime records.

The records of past crimes contain geographical information and can reveal easy targets — that is, the kind of stores that might be less difficult to rob. Because these stores are along roads, the locations of past crimes contain information about where major streets and intersections are. O’Leary is writing a new computer program that will quickly provide this kind of information for a given city. His program also includes census, or survey, information about the people who live in the city, and information about how a criminal’s patterns change with age. (It’s been shown, for example, that the younger the criminal, the closer to home the crime.)

Other computer programmers have worked on similar software, but O’Leary’s uses more math. The mathematician plans to make his computer program available, free of charge, to police departments around the country.

The program is just one way to use math to fight crime. O’Leary says that criminology — the study of crime and criminals — contains a lot of good math problems. ―I feel like I'm in a gold mine and I'm the only one who knows what gold looks like," he says. ―It’s a lot of fun.‖

31.题干：Which of the following statements about math is true?

答案：Few people associate it with finding criminals.

32.题干：People tend to think there is a relationship between

答案：the location of a crime and the residence of the criminal.

33.题干：O’Leary includes all the following information in writing his program EXCEPT 答案：the locations of police bureaus.

34.题干：O’Leary’s program is different from other similar software in that

答案：it uses more math.

35.题干：It can be inferred from the last paragraph that O’Leary