1.Below is an excerpt from a letter that was sent by the chairman of a corporation to the stockholders.
A number of charges have been raised against me, some serious, some trivial. Individuals seeking to control the corporation for their own purposes have demanded my resignation. Remember that no court of law in any state has found me guilty of any criminal offense whatsoever. In the American tradition, as you know, an individual is considered innocent until proven guilty. Furthermore, as the corporation’s unbroken six-year record of growth will show, my conduct of my official duties as chairman has only helped enhance the success of the corporation, and so benefited every stockholder.
Which of the following can be properly inferred from the excerpt?
(A) The chairman believes that all those who have demanded his resignation are motivated by desire to control the corporation for their own purposes. (B) Any misdeeds that the chairman may have committed were motivated by his desire to enhance the success of the corporation. (C) The chairman is innocent of any criminal offense. (D) The corporation has expanded steadily over the past six years. (E) Any legal proceedings against the chairman have resulted in his acquittal.
KEY: D.
我觉得从CHAIRMAN 的话中，可以更合理地推出C。
文中提到： 1。that no court of law in any state has found me guilty of any criminal offense whatsoever.
2。In the American tradition, an individual is considered innocent until proven guilty.
推出结论，如C所述：The chairman is innocent of any criminal offense。
You see, there are differences between "innocent of charge" and "innocent of criminal offense." As you know the popular case of Simpson, he conducted the murder but just because the murder couldn't be proved by a proper legal process, he was declared innocent of charge in the criminal court, but we can't say he was innocent of offense. The fact is he was delared guilty in a civil court later that year.
To sum up, innocent/guilty of charge is subjective term, and innocent of criminal offense, is a objective term.
我认为本题的解决点 就在as the corporation’s unbroken six-year record of growth will show, my conduct of my official duties as chairman has only helped enhance the success of the corporation, and so benefited every stockholder.上。
Unbroken(未曾破坏过的）不就说明是 持续增长的么（steadily）么？
我觉得C选项，(C) The chairman is innocent of any criminal offense. 有点超出题中的范围，因为这封信只是针对公司和股东而言，并没有提到any(所有的），也许在chairman的私人生活中会有criminal offense，也是无法预计和澄清的事情。
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发表于 2003-10-3 16:39:00
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