【正确答案】
C
【答案解析】[解析] 7-8
Police officers respond to a shooting near a liquor store in a tough west Oakland neighbourhood. This kind of crime is rarely reposed by newspapers, or TV. But in a few days, neighbours can read all about it on the Interact. Jerry Brown, the mayor of Oakland, looks at the computer screen showing the Oakland crime statistics: "There's a lot of crime in that area, isn't it." [7] {{U}}Jerry Brown, Oakland's mayor and California's former governor, promotes the quarter million dollar project that makes Oakland the first city in the country to put its crime statistics on the web.{{/U}} Mayor Jerry Brown says, "Every neighbourhood, precinct can be called up, and therefore the citizens know what's happening, as well as the police can identify a pattern of criminality on a daily basis, and then do something about it, interrupt it, change it, stop it." On the map a red star marks a homicide; a green star assault; the red circles armed robbery. [8] {{U}}A light green star is a forcible rape; an orange circle child abuse.{{/U}} The purple triangles are car thefts.
[考点] 本题考查新闻细节。
[精析] 新闻提到，现任奥克兰市市长，也就是前加州州长Jerry Brown开展这个耗资25万美元的项目，使奥克兰成为美国第一个将犯罪数据在网上公布的城市，故选C。