六级I remember talking with a young lawyer who was about to begin her first jury trial.

我记得和一位年轻的律师交谈过，她即将开始她的第一次陪审团审判。

2017年6月听力原文

考研Many Americans regard the jury system as a concrete expression of crucial democratic values, including the principles that all citizens who meet minimal qualifications of age and literacy are equally competent to serve on juries; that jurors should be sel

许多美国人将陪审团制度视为关键民主价值观的具体体现，包括所有符合最低年龄和文化素质的公民都有同等资格担任陪审团成员的原则；陪审员应该是独立的

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考研The high court’s decision said the judge in Mr.McDonnell’s trial failed to tell a jury that it must look only at his “official acts,” or the former governor’s decisions on “specific” and “unsettled” issues related to his duties.

高等法院的判决说，审判麦克唐纳的法官没有告诉陪审团，陪审团只能看他的“官方行为”，或者前州长关于与其职责相关的“具体”和“未解决”问题的判决。

2017年考研阅读原文

考研In 1968, the Congress of the United States passed the Jury Selection and Service Act, ushering in a new era of democratic reforms for the jury.

1968年，美国国会通过了《陪审团选拔和服务法》，开创了陪审团民主改革的新时代。

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考研All citizens who meet minimal qualifications of age and literacy are equally competent to serve on juries.

所有符合最低年龄和识字资格的公民都同样有资格担任陪审团成员。

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考研The jury is also said to be the best surviving example of direct rather than representative democracy.

陪审团也被认为是直接民主而非代议制民主现存的最好例子。

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考研The system also failed to regularly include women on juries until the mid-20th century.

直到20世纪中叶，该体系还没有将女性纳入陪审团。

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考研The Taylor decision also declared sex discrimination in jury selection to be unconstitutional and ordered states to use the same procedures for selecting male and female jurors.

泰勒裁决还宣布陪审团甄选中的性别歧视违反宪法，并命令各州在甄选男陪审员和女陪审员时采用相同的程序。

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考研Although women first served on state juries in Utah in 1898,It was not until the 1940s that a majority of states made women eligible for jury duty.

虽然妇女第一次在犹他州的陪审团任职是在1898年，但直到20世纪40年代，大多数州才使妇女有资格担任陪审员。

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六级I asked what impression she wanted to make on the jury.

我问她想给陪审团留下什么印象。

2017年6月听力原文

六级The jury believed the testimony of the two victims, who positively identified Jackson as the man who has attacked them.

陪审团相信两名受害者的证词，他们肯定杰克逊就是袭击他们的人。

2012年6月听力原文

考研In some states, for example, jury duty was limited to persons of supposedly superior intelligence, education, and moral character.

例如，在一些州，陪审团的职责仅限于据说智力、教育和道德品质优越的人。

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考研This practice was justified by the claim that women were needed at home, and it kept juries unrepresentative of women through the 1960s.

这一做法的理由是，在家里需要妇女，而且在整个20世纪60年代，陪审团都没有妇女的代表性。

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六级Jackson spent five years in prison after a jury wrongly convicted him of raping two women.

在陪审团错误地判定杰克逊强奸两名妇女的罪名后，杰克逊被判入狱五年。

2012年6月听力原文

考研But as recently as in 1968, jury selection procedures conflicted with these democratic ideals.

但就在1968年，陪审团的遴选程序与这些民主理念相冲突。

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考研Even then several states automatically exempted women from jury duty unless they personally asked to have their names included on the jury list.

即便如此，几个州也自动免除了妇女担任陪审团的责任，除非她们亲自要求将自己的名字列入陪审团名单。

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考研An appeal jury debated the matter for four and a half hours before announcing that the result would stand.

上诉陪审团就此事进行了四个半小时的辩论，然后宣布结果成立。

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考研Or so the thinking has gone since the early 1980s, when juries began holding more companies liable for their customers’ misfortunes.

自20世纪80年代初以来，这种想法就一直存在，当时陪审团开始让更多的公司为客户的不幸承担责任。

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考研The jury agreed that the nature of the game, not the helmet, was the reason for the athlete’s injury.

陪审团一致认为，造成运动员受伤的原因是比赛的性质，而不是头盔。

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