NCB in Interpol

The organization known to the world as Interpol has sometimesbeen described as an outfit of chisel-jawed gimlet-eyed crimefighters who put their lives in jeopardy every working hour. Lessflatteringly, Interpol has also been described as a huge filingcabinet, stuffed with clerks choking on their own statistics.

As with most generalities, there is some truth in both statements. There are, certainly, some grimbattlers of crime to be found working with Interpol. There are, just as surely, those drones shufflingmountains of paper whose cheeks are sallow from indoor life. Consider the charisma of the namealone: INTERPOL, the international police force. Continents leaped in a single bound, oceanscrossed in the space of a breath, villains watched by eyes that never sleep. Surprisingly, a lot of ithappens almost that way.

Four groups coordinate and direct the activities of Interpol. One of them is the National CentralBureaus, or NCBs, bodies designated by the member nations to serve as their link with Interpol.These are the front-line troops, the action people. IN the United States, the Treasury Departmentis the National Central Bureau. In the United Kingdom, it is Scotland Yard; the Questura in Italy andthe Melbourne City Police in Australia. Because police organization varies from country, the NCBswere established to act as the one special group to handle Interpol chores and unsure maximumcooperation between nations. Each NCB is usually an official government body with police powers ifa country has only one central police authority, that body becomes the National Centre Bureau. Ofcourse, any service appointed as an NCB is bound to its nation’s law and authority and retains itsnational title.

Each NCB is connected by radio to the regional station for its geographic zone. The regionalstations are connected to the Central Station in France. The radio network is versatile. Networkstations can monitor the Central station or any regional station. Because of this messages can bebroadcast to more than one station at a time. A coding system determines the urgency of eachmessage so that those with high priority can be given precedence. Besides, other communicationtools, such as radio-teleprinters and phototelegraphy equipment. Permit rapid transfers offingerprints and photographs. Sometimes ever more advanced technology is employed. When thepolice all over the world were looking for a Canadian named George Leray, they turned to the EarlyBird Satellite. Leray had led his gang on a daring holdup of a Montreal bank and gotten away with$4 million. Scotland Yard broadcast Leray’s photo to the world by satellite. An American who sawthe picture in Florida recognized Leray as a man who was living on a yacht in Fort Lauderdaleunder an assumed name. The police were alerted and arrested Leray.

1. What is the best title for this passage?
[A] The Function of the Interpol. ? ? ? ?[B] The Quality of the Interpol.
[C] The Organization of the Interpol. ?[D] The Rapid Development of the Interpol.

2. The organization of this passage is
[A] general to specific. ? ? ? ? ? [B] cause and effect.
[C] comparison and contrast. [D] development.

3. The sentence “stuffed with clerks choking on their own statistics” in the first paragraph is closestin meaning to
[A] a lot of employees busying in their work.
[B] many office workers busying with various documents.
[C] crowded with office workers busying with their own collected data.
[D] workers busying in their own information.

4. Which is the easiest tool to communicate?
[A] Satellite. ? ? [B] Radio.
[C] Teleprinter. [D] Phototelegraphy.

答案詳解（反白可見(jiàn)）：
1. C. 國(guó)際刑警組織。上面文章大意已經(jīng)說(shuō)明介紹國(guó)際刑警組織，其職能性質(zhì)只是附帶涉及。所以
A. B. 不對(duì)。 D. 迅速發(fā)展，文章沒(méi)有涉及。
2. A. 文章是一般到具體的組織結(jié)構(gòu)。
B. 因果 和 C. 對(duì)比。 不對(duì)。 D. 展開(kāi)，任何文章都得展開(kāi)。
3. C. stuff=crowd 辦公室擠滿了工作人員，忙于分析處理收集來(lái)的信息和數(shù)據(jù)。見(jiàn)難句譯注1參考譯文。
A. 有許多雇員忙于工作； B. 許多辦公室人員忙于各種文件； D. 忙于自己信息的工人。 這三項(xiàng)都沒(méi)有。
4. B. 無(wú)線電通訊。縱然第四段內(nèi)提及種種手段：衛(wèi)星，無(wú)線電，打印機(jī)，傳真電報(bào)。但無(wú)線電通訊仍是他們運(yùn)用的最方便和最得力的工具，因?yàn)樗麄兊臒o(wú)線電網(wǎng)絡(luò)靈活多用，網(wǎng)絡(luò)站能監(jiān)控中央和各地區(qū)站點(diǎn)，而且一次能把信息傳至好幾臺(tái)。至于衛(wèi)星，電報(bào)，傳真電報(bào)只是在特殊情況下運(yùn)行，如快速傳送照片，指紋等。所以A. 衛(wèi)星， C. 無(wú)線電打印機(jī)， D. 傳真電報(bào)，不對(duì)。

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