单选题 .  Kidnapping is the cruelest crime of the 20th century. There is not the political passion behind most hijacking; the motive is greed for money. The victims, provided their families are rich enough, are chosen at random. With the constant exposure by the media of personal fame and fortune, most people are vulnerable than ever.
    The most notorious kidnapping began on the evening of March 1, 1932, when someone placed a home-made ladder against the New Jersey home of Colonel Charles Lindbergh and stole his blond, blue-eyed baby son. A ransom (赎金) note was left from the kidnapper. Lindbergh, the first pilot to fly solo across the Atlantic, was the most popular man in America.
    When the boy was found a few miles away with his head crushed in, the whole nation was shocked and Congress passed the "Lindbergh Kidnap Law", with the death penalty for transporting a kidnap victim across a state line. The kidnapper, Bruno Richard Hauptmann, was caught two-and-a-half years later, when he exchanged some of the ransom money. He was executed in 1936.
    Kidnapping is an example of inflation: Hauptmann demanded $50,000; in 1973 the Getty family had to pay 1,300,000 pounds and the ransom delivery in two billion Italian lire weighed a ton. In this kidnapping, things went dreadfully wrong. When the kidnappers cut off Getty's fight ear and sent it to a newspaper, they forgot the postal strike which delayed this proof by three weeks. In the case of Muriel McKay, the kidnappers picked the wrong woman. The Hosein brothers had developed their plan when they saw Rupert Murdoch on a TV show in 1969 and heard him described as a millionaire, a word which stimulated their action. Yet, in tracing Murdoch's Rolls-Royce, they failed to realize that he had left for Australia with his wife and had loaned the car to Douglas McKay, a chairman of one of his enterprises. Attacking the wrong home, the Hoseins kidnapped Mrs. McKay by mistake, but still demanded their million pounds.
    The end result of kidnapping is never clean: Lindbergh never psychologically recovered. Young Paul Getty jokes: "It was a high-priced ear!" But the scars must be internal, too. The saddest comment came from Douglas McKay after the trial of the Hoseins: "They have got a life sentence. 1, too, have a life sentence wondering just what has happened to my dear wife."1.  Why are most people vulnerable than ever according to the writer? ______
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】 绑架是20世纪最残忍的犯罪方式。大多数绑架案的背后并不是政治情绪，其动机只是对于金钱的贪婪。受害人都是在家庭十分富有的条件下，被绑匪随机选择的。当个人的名望和财富被媒体不断地报道时，大部分人比以往任何时候都更容易盛为绑匪的目标。
   最臭名昭著的绑架案发生在1932年3月1日的晚上，绑匪把自制的梯子搭到查尔斯·林白上校位于新泽西的家里，偷走了他的儿子——一个金发碧眼的小婴儿，并留下了一张索要赎金的字条。林白是第一个独自飞越大西洋的飞行员，在当时的美国他是最受欢迎的人。
   当小男孩在几英里以外的地方被发现时脑袋已经被碾碎了，整个国家为此感到震惊。议会通过了“林白绑架法案”，决定对协助绑匪越过州界线者处以死刑。两年半之后，绑匪布鲁诺·理查德·豪普特曼在兑换了部分赎金之后被捕。他于1936年被处决。
   绑架还可以印证通货膨胀：豪普特曼要求支付5万美元赎金；而1973年格蒂一家不得不支付130万英镑——所付赎金是20乙意大利里拉，重达一吨。在这次绑架中，事情变得极其糟糕。当绑匪把格蒂的右耳朵砍下来寄给一家报社时，他们忘记了当时正在进行邮政系统大罢工，而这次罢工使他们寄出的证物晚到了三周。在缪丽尔·麦凯被绑架的案件中，绑匪劫错了人。1969年，当侯赛因兄弟在电视节目上看到鲁珀特，默多克的时候，萌生了绑架计划。在那个节目中，鲁珀特·默多克被称为百万富翁，正是这个词激起了他们的绑架行动。但是，在尾随默多克的劳斯莱斯时，他们并不知道他已经和妻子一起去了澳大利亚，而且把车借给了他的一家公司的董事长道格拉斯·麦凯。侯赛因兄弟闯进错误的住宅，误打误撞绑架了麦凯夫人，但仍然索要百万英镑的赎金。
   绑架造成的最终影响永远不会消除：林白的心理创伤再也没有恢复。年轻的保罗·格蒂开玩笑说：“那是一只代价昂贵的耳朵!”但是他的内心也一定有一道伤疤。在审讯完侯赛因兄弟之后，道格拉斯·麦凯的评论最为悲痛。他说：“他们被判处终身监禁。我也被判了终身监禁，我将用一生的时间来思索我亲爱的妻子到底遭遇了什么事。”
   【论说文：绑架】
   第1段：提出本文讨论的主题——绑架。
   第2～3段：以美国著名飞行员林白之子被绑架为例，证明由媒体曝光的知名人士更容易成为绑匪的目标。
   第4段：举出另外两个绑架具体案例。
   第5段：说明绑架给人带来了难以弥合的心理创伤。
   根据题干中的Most people are vulnerable than ever将答案定位到文章第一段。
   本题问的是为什么大多数人比以往任何时候都更容易成为绑匪的目标。文章第一段最后一句提到，当个人的名望和财富被媒体不断地报道时，大部分人比以往任何时候都更容易成为绑匪的目标。也就是说，有钱人大多会被媒体曝光，从而更容易成为绑匪的目标。D项“现在人们很难富有却不为人知”与这一意思一致，故为正确答案。其他三项文中均未提及，故排除。