2012年职称英语卫生类B级补全短文提高训练（4）

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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 (审讯) room.
7 `+ H1 P7 |2 A# v. Q　　Under the right conditions, people's minds are susceptible (易受影响的) to influence, and the pressure put on suspects during police grillings (盘问) 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.
8 ]+ y5 F7 t% S* Y# L/ d/ @　　"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)
( g! k# X8 t" X8 a5 h, I7 h" l　　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."
. g+ V, u' F' Y& w5 M　　C "It's a little like somebody's working on them with a dental (牙齿的) drill," says Franklin 确Zimring, a law professor at the University of California at Berkeley.
$ T( Y8 |7 i2 p' l8 H　　D "But adults are highly vulnerable too."
　　E How could an innocent person admit to doing something he didn't do?
" F6 a6 s0 c1 y8 Q7 K　　F Redlich also found that the younger the participant, the more likely a false confession.
9 G+ q% R- V! x　　参考答案：C A F D B