2013年職稱英語理工類補(bǔ)全短文試題及答案(二)

　　Why Would They Falsely Confess?

　　Why on earth would an innocent person falsely confess to committing a crime? To most people, it just doesn't seem logical. But it is logical, say experts, if you understand what can happen in a police interrogation (審訊) room

　　Under the right conditions, people's minds are susceptible (易受影響的) to influence, and the pressure put on suspects during police grillings (盤問) is enormous.__________(46) "The pressure is important to understand, because otherwise it's impossible to understand why someone would say he did something he didn't do. The answer is: to put an end to an uncomfortable situation that will continue until he does confess."

　　Developmental psychologist Allison Redlich recently conducted a laboratory study to determine how likely people are to confess to things they didn't do.__________(47) The researchers then intentionally crashed the computers and accused the participants of hitting the "alt" key to see if they would sign a statement falsely taking responsibility.

　　Redlich's findings clearly demonstrate how easy it can be to get people to falsely confess: 59 percent of the young adults in the experiment immediately confessed.__________(48) Of the 15- to 16-year-olds,72 percent signed confessions, as did 78 percent of the 12- to 13-year-olds.

　　"There's no question that young people are more at risk," says Saul Kassin, a psychology professor at Williams College, who has done similar studies with similar results.__________(49)

　　Both Kassin and Redlich note that the entire "interrogation" in their experiments consisted of a simple accusation--not hours of aggressive questioning--and still, most participants falsely confessed.

　　Because of the stress of a police interrogation, they conclude, suspects can become convinced that falsely confessing, is the easiest way out of a bad situation.__________(50)

　　A In her experiment, participants were seated at computers and told not to hit the "alt" key, because doing so would crash the systems.

　　B "In some ways," says Kassin, "false confession becomes a rational decision."

　　C "It's a little like somebody's working on them with a dental (牙齒的) drill," says Franklin 確Zimring, a law professor at the University of California at Berkeley.

　　D "But adults are highly vulnerable too."

　　E How could an innocent person admit to doing something he didn't do?

　　F Redlich also found that the younger the participant, the more likely a false confession.

　　參考答案：C A F D B

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