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LONDON - A British judge on Thursday sentenced a businessman who sold fake(假冒的) bomb detectors(探测器) to 10 years in prison, saying the man hadn't cared about potentially deadly consequences.

It is believed that James McCormick got about $77.8 million from the sales of his detectors - which were based on a kind of golf ball finder - to countries including Iraq, Belgium and Saudi Arabia.

McCormick, 57, was convicted(判罪) of cheats last month and sentenced Thursday at the Old Bailey court in London.

"Your cheating conduct in selling a great amount of useless equipment simply for huge profit promoted a false sense of security and in all probability materially contributed to causing death and injury to innocent people," Judge Richard Hone told McCormick. "You have neither regret, nor shame, nor any sense of guilt."

The detectors, sold for up to $42,000 each, were said to be able to find such dangerous objects as bombs under water and from the air. But in fact they "lacked any grounding in science" and were of no use.

McCormick had told the court that he sold his detectors to the police in Kenya, the prison service in HongKong, the army in Egypt and the border control in Thailand.

"I never had any bad results from customers," he said.

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39. Why was McCormick sentenced to prison?

A. He sold bombs. 　
B. He caused death of people.
C. He made detectors.

D. He cheated in business.

40. According to the judge, what McCormick had done _______.

A. increased the cost of safeguarding

B. lowered people's guard against danger

C. changed people's idea of social security

D. caused innocent people to commit crimes

41. Which of the following is true of the detectors?

A. They have not been sold to Africa.

B. They have caused many serious problems.

C. They can find dangerous objects in water.

D. They don't function on the basis of science.

42. It can be inferred from the passage that McCormick _______.

A. sold the equipment at a low price

B. was well-known in most countries

C. did not think he had committed the crime

D. had not got such huge profit as mentioned in the text

参考译文

在伦敦，周四英国法官判处一位贩卖假的炸弹探测器的商人10年有期徒刑，法官说这个人并不关心可能的致命的结果。

据说詹姆斯·麦考密克从他卖出的假探测器中获利达七百七十八万美元，该探测器是以高尔夫寻球器为基础，出售的国家包括伊拉克、比利时以及沙特阿拉伯。

上个月，57岁的麦考密克被判诈骗罪，并于周四在伦敦老贝利法院判刑。

法官理查德·霍告诉麦考密克：“你仅仅为了获取巨额利润而销售大量无用设备的的欺骗行为提升了一种虚假的安全感，而且很可能就造成了无辜百姓的伤亡。而对此你却没有后悔，没有感到羞耻，也没有任何的愧疚感。”

售价高达四万两千美元的探测器被认为是可以在水中和空气中找到炸弹等危险物品的。但事实上它们“没有任何科学依据”，所以也是没有用的。

麦考密克曾告诉法庭，他把他的探测器卖给了肯尼亚的警方，香港监狱的服务部门，埃及的军队以及泰国控制的边境。

他说：“我从来没有从客户那得到不好的结果。”

答案解析

39. D 考查细节理解。根据第一段中的"a businessman who sold fake(假冒的) bomb detectors (探测器) to 10 years in prison"以及第三段中的"McCormick, 57, was convicted(判罪) of cheats last month"可知选D。

40. B 考查细节理解。根据第四段中法官Richard Hone的话"Your cheating conduct in selling a great amount of useless equipment simply for huge profit promoted a false sense of security and in all probability materially contributed to causing death and injury to innocent people"可知，McCormick的商业欺诈行为给人们的安全带来了威胁，所以选B。

41. D 考查细节理解。根据第五段的第二句"But in fact they 'lacked any grounding in science' and were of no use."可知，McCormick的炸弹探测器的运转没有科学依据。

42. C 考查推理判断。根据第四段中法官的话"You have neither regret, nor shame, nor any sense of guilt."和文章的最后一句，"I never had any bad results from customers, he said."可知，McCormick认为他自己没有犯罪。