2022年黑龙江省大兴安岭地区考研外语测试卷一含答案
2022年黑龙江省大兴安岭地区考研外语测试卷一(含答案)学校:________ 班级:________ 姓名:________ 考号:________ 一、2.Reading Comprehensio
2022年黑龙江省大兴安岭地区考研外语测 试卷一(含答案) :________ :________ :________ :________ 学校班级姓名考号 2.Reading Comprehension(10) 一、题 1.Tom Burke recently tried to print out aboarding pass from home before one of the frequent flights he takes. He couldn't. His name, or one similar to it, is now on one of the Transportation Security Administration's terrorist watch lists. Every day, thousands of people like Burke find themselves unable to do things like print aboarding pass and are pulled aside for extensive screening because their name, or aname that sounds like theirs, is on one of the watch lists. From the TSA's perspective, the screening is just one of the many new layers of increased security that are designed to prevent terrorist activity. The inconvenience is regrettable, but aprice that society has to pay for security. And for national security reasons, the FBI and other government agencies responsible for supplying names to the lists will not disclose the criteria they use. They say that would amount to tipping their hands to the terrorists. But civil libertarians are more concerned about the long-term consequence of the current lists. On Sept. 11, 2001, the no-fly list contained 16 names. Now, the combined lists are estimated to have as many as 20,000. Internal FBI memos from agents referred to the process as "really confused" and "not comprehensive and not centralized. Burke and others contend that such comments are disturbing, because it was during the first year after the attacks that the watch lists grew exponentially. "The underlying danger is not that Tom Burke can no longer get a boarding pass to get on an airline", says alawyer. "It's that the Tom Burkes in the world may forever more be associated (with the terrorist watch list)". Burke says they do know that the lists are frequent[y updated and distributed internationally, but they don't know how the old lists are destroyed. They also hope to ensure that sometime in the future aperson whose name is on the list, but is not aterrorist, does not run into further trouble if, say, law enforcement in another country that they're visiting comes across their name on one of the old lists. In addition, airlines are concerned that the lists are not updated frequently enough. "We've been encouraging the TSA to work with
