题目内容
Real policemen, both in Britain and the United States, hardly recognize any similarity between their lives and what they see on TV ― if they ever get home in time. There are similarities, of course, but the cops (policemen) don’t think much of them.
The first difference is that a policeman’s real life revolves round (以……为中心) the law. Most of his training is in criminal law. He has to know exactly what actions are crimes and what evidence can be used to prove them in court. He has to know nearly as much law as a professional lawyer, and what is more, he has to apply it on his feet, in the dark and rain, running down an alley (小巷) after someone he wants to talk to.
Little of his time is spent in chatting to charming ladies or in dramatic confrontations (对抗) with desperate criminals. He will spend most of his working life typing millions of words on thousands of forms about hundreds of sad, unimportant people who are guilty ― or not ― of stupid crimes of little importance.
Most television crime drama is about finding the criminal: as soon as he’s arrested, the story is over. In real life, finding criminals is seldom much of a problem. Except in very serious cases like murders and terrorist attacks ― where failure to produce results reflects on the standing of the police ― little effort is spent on searching. The police have detailed machinery which eventually shows up most wanted men.
Having made an arrest, a detective really starts to work. He has to prove his case in court and to do that he often has to gather a lot of different evidence. Much of this has to be given by people who don’t want to get involved in a court case. So, as well as being overworked, a detective has to be out at all hours of the day and night interviewing his witnesses and persuading them, usually against their own best interests, to help him.
A third big difference between the drama detective and the real detective is that the real detective lives in an unpleasant moral twilight (暮色). Detectives tend to have two opposing pressures: first, as members of a police force they always have to behave with absolute legality; secondly, as expensive public servants they have to get results. They can hardly ever do both. Most of the time, some of them have to break the rules in small ways.
If the detective has to deceive (欺骗) the world, the world often deceives him. Hardly anyone he meets tells him the truth. And this separation the detective feels between himself and the rest of the world is deepened by the simplemindedness ― as he sees it ― of citizens, social workers, doctors, law-makers, and judges, who, instead of putting a complete end to crime punish the criminals less strictly in the hope that this will make them reform. The result, detectives feel, is that nine-tenths of their work is re-catching people who should have stayed behind bars. This makes them rather cynical (愤世嫉俗的).
77.It is essential for a policeman to be trained in criminal law ________.
A.so that he can catch criminals in the streets easily
B.because many of the criminals he has to catch are very dangerous
C.because he has to know nearly as much about law as a professional lawyer
D.so that he can give a good reason for his arrests in court
78.The everyday life of a policeman or detective is ________.
A.full of danger B.exciting and fantastic
C.devoted mostly to regular matters D.wasted on unimportant matters
79.When murders and terrorist attacks occur, the police ________.
A.try to make a quick arrest in order to keep up their reputation
B.usually fail to produce results
C.prefer to wait for the criminal to give himself away
D.take a lot of effort to try to track down their men
80.Which of the following statements is NOT true?
A.There are similarities between drama detective and the real detective.
B.Most people don’t want to be the witnesses of the case.
C.American policemen’s real life is different from
D.In reality society does not punish criminals strictly enough.
In 1956
41 the sky looked like. Maybe he could make a little bird 42 out there. I took him into the backyard, and then, to my 43 , Perky flew off. The extremely large, blue sky swallowed up my sister’s blue 44 and suddenly he was gone, clipped (夹住) wings and all.
Kathy managed to 45 me. With fake optimism, she even tried to reassure (使安心) me that Perky would find a new 46 . But I was far too clever to 47 that such a thing was possible.
Decades later, I watched my own 48 growing. We shared their activities, spending soccer Saturdays in folding chairs with the 49 of the kids’ friends, the Kissells. The two families went camping around
“The best thing 54 Sweetie Pie,” he said, “was the 55 we got him. One day, when I was about eight, out of the clear, blue sky, a little blue parakeet just 56 down and landed on my finger.”
When I was finally able to 57 , we examined the amazing evidence. The dates and the locations and the pictures of the bird all 58 . It seems our two families had been 59 long before we ever met. Forty years later, I ran to my sister and said, “You were 60 ! Perky lived!”
41.A.what | B.how | C.which | D.where |
42.A.food | B.nest | C.friend | D.family |
43.A.joy | B.horror | C.disappointment | D.satisfaction |
44.A.pleasure | B.sadness | C.treasure | D.sense |
45.A.forgive | B.comfort | C.help | D.delight |
46.A.parent | B.home | C.master | D.life |
47.A.imagine | B.suppose | C.doubt | D.believe |
48.A.birds | B.happiness | C.worries | D.children |
49.A.parents | B.birds | C.interests | D.games |
50.A.first | B.best | C.last | D.happiest |
51.A.catch | B.find | C.buy | D.have |
52.A.Suddenly | B.Fortunately | C.Then | D.However |
53.A.announced | B.said | C.told | D.hoped |
54.A.in | B.about | C.of | D.on |
55.A.day | B.place | C.way | D.story |
56.A.floated | B.dived | C.settled | D.went |
57.A.think | B.speak | C.interrupt | D.explain |
58.A.came up | B.turned up | C.turned out | D.matched up |
59.A.known | B.fastened | C.connected | D.introduced |
60.A.right | B.wrong | C.silly | D.mad |
“Stop that man!”
“Guerrero, listen to me!”
“We know who you are,”
Guerrero hesitated.
“…”
A man came out of one of the 32 behind Guerrero. At the 33 of the door opening, he 34 .
“Get the guy with the case! He’s got a bomb!” somebody shouted.
Guerrero 35 past the man and ran into the toilet. He had not really understood 36 that had happened in the last few minutes, but he understood that, 37 so many things in his life, his great plan had 38 . His life had been a failure, and now his 39 would be a failure be a failure too.
As he pulled the string(导火索), he wondered 40 whether the bomb would be another failure. In the last second of his life he learned that it was not.
21.A.running over | B.jumping over | C.running to | D.jumping to |
22.A.back | B.body | C.side | D.face |
23.A.Walk | B.Take | C.Stay | D.Put |
24.A.cried out | B.called to | C.shouted at | D.spoke against |
25.A.stared | B.fought | C.talked | D.hit |
26.A.that | B.what | C.how | D.when |
27.A.tells | B.explains | C.means | D.expresses |
28.A.harm | B.good | C.value | D.profit |
29.A.sooner | B.Better | C.Rather | D.Worse |
30.A.suffer | B.worry | C.argue | D.fight |
31.A.hear | B.listen to | C.see | D.look at |
32.A.toilets | B.kitchens | C.seats | D.passages |
33.A.movement | B.sight | C.sign | D.sound |
34.A.hid | B.fell | C.turned | D.rolled |
35.A.pushed | B.walked | C.rushed | D.hurried |
36.A.everything | B.anything | C.nothing | D.something |
37.A.unless | B.after | C.like | D.as |
38.A.lost | B.broken | C.failed | D.removed |
39.A.power | B.life | C.plan | D.death |
40.A.proudly | B.bitterly | C.excitedly | D.curiously |