单选题From the text we can infer that
A．the commitment to improve the capacities of the poor will hardly be made．
B．the investment in educational，medical and job programs is non-profitable．
C．the author disapproves the idea of genetic determination．
D．there will soon be an uproar over IQ tests．
该题为细节题。最后一句为倒装句，正常语序应为“The national commitment to improve the capabilities of the poor by investing billions of dollars annually in educational，medical and job programs is at stake in the uproar over IQ．”，意为，由于人们对智商及决定因素争论不休，因此，我们无法预测国家是否会每年在教育、医疗和就业项目中投入数十亿美元来提高贫困人群的能力，A项认为国家几乎不可能投入资金来提高贫困人群能力，不符合文意；B项认为对教育、医疗和就业项目的投资是无益的，是错误的；根据第三段“The conffoversy erupted more than a decade ago when some U．S．scholars saw a racial pattern in the differing scores of students taking intelligence and college—entrance tests．”可知，关于智商及测试方法的争论在十多年前就已经出现了，D项认为围绕智商测试方法是否合理的争论将会出现，与文意矛盾。C项表明作者反对基因决定论，与文意相符，故选C。
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Queuse are long. Life is short. So why waste time waiting when you can pay someone to do it for you? In Washingto.n D. C.--a city that struggles with more than its share of bureaucratic prac-tices--a small industry is emerging that will queue for you to get everything from a driver´s license to a seat in a congressional hearing.
Michael Dorsey, one of the pioneering" service expediters", began going to traffic courts for other people back in 1988. Today his fees start at $ 20 and can go into the thousands to plead indi-vidual cases at the Bureau of Traffic Adjudication( his former employer). Mr. Dorsey knows what a properly written parking ticket looks like, and often gets fines invalidated on its failures in formali-ty. His clients include congressmen and diplomats, as well as firms for which tickets are an occupa-tional hazard, such as taxi operators and television broadcasters.
Service expediters are not universally loved. Non-tax income, like fines and fees, makes upabout 7% of local-government revenue in Washington. Mr. Dorsey alone relieves that fund of $150,000 a year. Meanwhile, citizen advocacy groups keep complaining about expediters such as the Congressional Services Company and CVK Group that specialise in saving places for congres-sional hearings. Committees hearing hot topics such as energy regulation often do not have enough seats. Why should a well-heeled lobbyist who has paid $ 30 an hour to a professional place-holder grab the place? Critics say this perpetuates a two-layered system: the rich get good government service, but the poor still have to wait.
This seems a little harsh. Service expeditors can hardly be blamed for creating the unfair system they profit from. Anyway, it´s not only rich corporate types who benefit from their services. Poor foreigners with little English hire expediters to navigate the ticket-fighting process;so do elderly and disabled people who want to save time on errands that require long hours standing in line.
And, who knows, the service expediters might even shame the bureaucrats into pulling their socks up. Back in 1999, Washington´s mayor, Tony Williams, promised to liberate citizens from the tyranny of the government queue. Things have gotten a bit better, but the 20-minute task of renewing a driver´s license can still take days. Hiring an expert to confront the bureaucratic beast on your behalf takes care of that.
What is the new business which emerged in Washington D．C．?
A．Helping to establish small industries．
B．Making false tickets and driver’s licenses．
C．Assisting in organising congressional hearings．
D．Offering to go through official procedures for clients．
2Which of the following is true according to the text?
A．The fines for offenders range from$20 to$10000r more．
B．Television broadcasters are fiable to receive parking tickets．
C．Fines are sometimes cancelled when tickets are well written．
D．Michael Dorsey’s working experience helped with his new business．
