2021年6月17日大学英语四一课一练阅读理解5-1

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1：Every year thousands of people are arrested and taken to court for shop-lifting.In Britain alone,about HK$3,000,000’s worth of goods are stolen from shops every week.This amounts to something like HK$150 million a year,and represents about 4 percent of the shop’s total stock.As a result of this”shrinkage”as the shops call it,the honest public has to pay higher prices.(1:诚实群体需要付出更大代价的根本原因是存在大量的盗窃)

Shop-lifters can be divided into three main categories:the professionals,the deliberate amateurs,and the people who just can’t help themselves.The professionals do not pose much of a problem for the story detectives,who,assisted by closed circuit television,two-way mirrors and various other technological devices,can usually cope with them.The professionals tend to go for high value goods in parts of shops where security measures are tightest.4：And,in any case,they account for only a small percentage of the total losses due to shop-lifting.

The same applies to the deliberate amateur who is,so to speak,a professional in training.Most of them get caught sooner or later,and they are dealt with severely by the courts.
2：The real problem is the person who gives way to a sudden temptation and is in all other respects an honest and law-abiding citizen.Contrary to what one would expect,this kind of shop-lifter is rarely poor.He does not steal because he needs the goods and cannot afford to pay for them.He steals because he simply cannot stop himself.3：And there are countless others who,because of age,sickness or plain absent-mindedness,simply forget to pay for what they take from the shops.When caught,all are liable to prosecution and the decision whether to send for the police or not is in the hands of the store manager.

In order to prevent the quite incredible growth in shop-lifting offences,some stores,in fact,are doing their best to separate the thieves from the confused by prohibiting customers from taking bags into the store.However,what is most worrying about the whole problem is,perhaps,that it is yet another instance of the innocent 5:majority being penalized and inconvenienced because of the actions of a small minority.It is the aircraft hijack situation in another form.Because of the possibility of one passenger in a million boarding an aircraft with a weapon,5:the other 999,999 passengers must subject themselves to searches and delays.Unless the situation in the shops improves,in ten years’ time we may all have to subject ourselves to a body-search every time we go into a store to buy a tin of beans.

全文翻译：
每年都有成千的人因为偷窃被送上法庭或者被逮捕。就单英国一个国家，每周从商店里被偷的商品的价值就约达三百万港币。每年就是1.5亿港元,大约占了总库存的4%。由于商店的这种所谓的萎缩，诚实的人们也要随之付出一些代价。
偷窃者可以大致分为三类：专业偷窃，有意偷窃，还有不自主偷窃。专业小偷没有给侦探们造成太大的问题，在闭路电视监控系统，双面镜审查，还有各种科技设备的帮助下通常都可以解决。专业小偷往往也只会去到安全措施最为严格的商店行窃。无论怎么样，他们只占商店因盗窃而造成损失的一小部分。
同样的道理也适用于那些故意偷盗者，他们可以说是训练中的专业人士。他们中的大多数迟早会被抓住，并受到法庭的严厉处理。
真正的问题是那些突然屈服于诱惑的人，他们在其他方面是诚实守法的好公民。与人们想法相反，这类小偷很少是穷人。他偷窃不是因为他需要这件商品或者买不起它。他偷东西是因为他控制不住自己。很多人因为年龄、疾病、不走心把商品带走却没有付钱。一旦被抓到，这些人都有可能被起诉，是否报警的决定权掌握在商店经理手中。
事实上，为了防止在商店里行窃的案件越来越多，一些商店正尽力把小偷和糊涂顾客分开，禁止顾客带包进商店。然而，这个因为小部分人的行为使得多数无辜的人受到惩罚和不便的例子，可能就是整个问题最让人忧虑的地方。这是另一种劫持飞机的形式。由于每100万名乘客中可能就有一名携带武器登上飞机，其他999999名乘客必须接受搜查和航班延迟。除非商店的情况有所改善，否则十年后，