（2025·江西·模拟预测）Beside pencils, sharpeners and calendars in classrooms throughout Minnesota’s Lakeville Area Schools, there are now big blue boxes with a red button and the word “POLICE”. The button sends a text message to emergency dispatchers (调度员), alerts the rest of the school to potential danger, and activates 1,200 pounds of magnetic force to keep the class door shut.
It’s one of the measures that Michael Baumann has employed to harden the schools in his district and protect against active shooters since he became supervisor in 2017. He hired four more advisers to improve mental-health services, established a team to monitor potential threats of violence, and spent $14. 4 million installing the emergency-alert system and building ballistic (弹道的) panels into walls that are designed to stop bullets — all aimed at helping students and teachers survive an active shooter.
Fear of shootings has turned school security into a booming industry. The market for school security equipment and services reached $2.7 billion in 2017, according to a report by the research firm Omdia.
Research shows that the number of deadly shootings at schools has increased since 2012, during a period in which protective measures also expanded.
There also isn’t clear evidence that school resource officers (SROs) improve safety. SROs were on the scene in Uvalde and in Parkland before the gunmen entered the schools, but failed to stop those shootings.
“When we add metal detectors, observation cameras, increased police presence, active-shooter drills, and we turn schools into this mix of fortresses and prisons. It can have some negative impacts,” says Bryan Warnick, an education professor at Ohio State University who has studied school discipline.
Although many school districts invest in security in the hopes of preventing shootings or minimizing casualties, some worry that hardening schools ultimately makes educators responsible for solving the gun violence epidemic. “We ask schools to turn themselves upside down with trainings and new procedures,” Warnick says. It’s a larger societal problem of easy access to firearms, of lack of access to mentalhealth care.
95．Why are so many protective measures taken by Michael Baumann in the schools?
A．To prevent active shooters. B．To capture active shooters.
C．To monitor active shooters. D．To help students and teachers survive active shooters.
96．What conclusion can we draw from the passage?
A．The investment in school security has increased.
B．The protective measures help a lot.
C．The protective measures aim to catch shooters.
D．Schools are responsible for solving the gun violence epidemic.
97．What dose Bryan Warnick think about the protective measures taken in the schools?
A．They measures are useless.
B．They measures may affect schools negatively.
C．They measures have turned schools into a mix of fortresses and prisons.
D．They measures only result in the rise of investment in school security.
98．Which is the best title of the passage?
A．The Education in Minnesota’s Lakeville Area Schools
B．The Ways to Survive Active Shooters in Minnesota’s Lakeville Area Schools
C．The Protective Measures in Minnesota’s Lakeville Area Schools
D．The Rise of School Security Investment
【答案】95．D 96．A 97．B 98．C
【知识点】社会问题与社会现象、新闻报道、校园安全
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