I have only once been in trouble with the law.The whole process of being arrested and taken to court was a rather unpleasant experience at the time, but it makes a good story now. What makes it rather disturbing was the arbitrary (隨意的) circumstances both of my arrest and my subsequent (隨后的) fate in court.
It happened in February about twelve years ago.I had left school a couple of months before that and was not due to go to university until the following October.I was still living at home at the time.
One morning I was in Richmond, a suburb of London near where I lived.I was looking for a temporary job so that I could save up some money to go traveling.As it was a fine day and I was in no hurry, I was taking my time, looking in shop windows, strolling in the park, and sometimes just stopping and looking around me.It must have been this obvious ainilessness that led to my downfall.
It was about half past eleven when it happened.I was just walking out of the local library, having unsuccessfully sought employment there, when I saw a man walking across the road with the obvious intention of talking to me.I thought he was going to ask me the time.Instead, he said he was a police officer and he was arresting me.At first I thought it was some kind of joke.
But then another policeman appeared, this time in uniform, and I was left in no doubt.
'But what for?" I asked.
‘Wandering with intent to commit an arrestable offence,' he said.
‘What offence?' I asked.
'Theft,' he said.
'Theft of what?' I asked.
'Milk bottles,' he said, and with a perfectly straight face too!
'Oh,' I said.
It turned out there had been a lot of petty thefts in the area, particularly that of stealing milk bottles from doorsteps.
Then I made my big mistake.At the time I was nineteen, had long untidy hair, and regarded myself as pan of the sixties' 'youth counterculture'.As a result, I wanted to appear cool and unconcerned with the incident, so I said, 'How long have you been following me?  in the most casual and conversational tone I could manage.I thus appeared to them to be quite familiar with this sort of situation, and it confirmed them in their belief that I was a thoroughly disreputable (品行不端的) character.
A few minutes later a police car arrived.
'Get in the back,' they said.'Put your hands on the back of the front seat and don't move them.'
They got in on either side of me.It wasn't funny any more.
At the police station they questioned me for several hours.I continued to try to look worldly and familiar with the situation.When they asked me what I had been doing, I told them I'd been looking for a job.'Aha,' I could see them thinking, 'unemployed'.
Eventually, I was officially charged and told to report to Richmond Magistrates' Court the following Monday.Then they let me go.
I wanted to conduct my own defense in court, but as soon as my father found out what had happened, he hired a very good solicitor (律師) .We went along that Monday armed with all kinds of witnesses, including my English teacher from school as a character witness.But he was never called on to give evidence.My 'trial' didn't get that far.The magistrate (法官) dismissed the case after fifteen minutes.1 was free.The poor police had never stood a chance.The solicitor even succeeded in getting costs awarded against the police.
And so I do not have a criminal record.But what was most shocking at the time was the things my release from the charge so clearly depended on.I had the 'right' accent, respectable middle-class parents in court, reliable witnesses, and I could obviously afford a very good solicitor.Given the obscure nature of the charge.I feel sure that if I had come from a different background, and had really been unemployed, there is every chance that I would have been found guilty.While asking for costs to be awarded, my solicitor's case quite obviously revolved (回轉(zhuǎn)) around the fact that I had a 'brilliant academic record'.
Meanwhile, just outside the courtroom, one of the policemen who had arrested me was gloomily complaining to my mother that another youngster had been turned against the police. 'You could have been a bit more helpful when we arrested you,' he said to me reproachfully (責(zé)備地) .
What did he mean? Probably that I should have looked outraged (暴怒)and said something like, 'Look here, do you know who you're talking to? I am a highly successful student with a brilliant academic record.How dare you arrest me!' Then they, probably, would have apologized perhaps even taken off their caps, and let me on my way.
【小題1】Judging from the first paragraph, the writer's attitude towards his story is _______.

A.a(chǎn)ngry B.sad
C.a(chǎn)mused D.more than just one of the above
【小題2】The first man who came up to him was ______.
A.a(chǎn) uniformed policeman B.a(chǎn) policeman in plainclothes
C.not a policeman D.a(chǎn) good joker
【小題3】The court never asked the author's English teacher to give evidence because _______.
A.the time for the trial was limited to fifteen minutes only
B.the author wanted to conduct his own defense in court
C.the case was dismissed before the trial reached that stage
D.he was found to be unqualified as a character witness
【小題4】The author believes that he would most probably have been declared guilty if _______.
A.the magistrate had been less gentle
B.he had really been out of work
C.he had been born in a lower—class family
D.both B and C
【小題5】In the opinion of one of the policeman who had arrested the author, the whole thing might not have occurred if ______.
A.he had protested strongly at the time
B.he had begged to be allowed to go home
C.he hadn't wandered aimlessly
D.he had tried to look cool
【小題6】We can see from the passage that the author ______.
A.has broken the law only once
B.has never broken the law
C.has broken the law on more than one occasion
D.once broke the law without knowing it


【小題1】D
【小題2】B
【小題3】C
【小題4】D
【小題5】A
【小題6】B

解析試題分析:文章介紹作者在找工作的時候,遇到兩個警察,作者的態(tài)度讓他們誤會并被逮捕,但是作者的家庭地位讓法官將他釋放。
【小題1】推理題:從第一段的句子中出現(xiàn)的形容詞:unpleasant , good ,disturbing, arbitrary 可知作者的態(tài)度是復(fù)雜的,選D
【小題2】細(xì)節(jié)題:從第四段的句子:when I saw a man walking across the road with the obvious intention of talking to me.I thought he was going to ask me the time.Instead, he said he was a police officer and he was arresting me.可知第一個朝作者走過來的是便衣警察,選B
【小題3】細(xì)節(jié)題:從文章的句子:We went along that Monday armed with all kinds of witnesses, including my English teacher from school as a character witness.But he was never called on to give evidence.My 'trial' didn't get that far.The magistrate (法官) dismissed the case after fifteen minutes.可知法庭沒有讓作者的英語老師作證因為案件在審理到那個階段之前就結(jié)束了,選C
【小題4】細(xì)節(jié)題:從倒數(shù)第三段的句子:I feel sure that if I had come from a different background, and had really been unemployed, there is every chance that I would have been found guilty.可知作者認(rèn)為如果他真的失業(yè)了,或是如果他來自貧窮的家庭,可能他就會被判有罪,選D
【小題5】細(xì)節(jié)題:從倒數(shù)第二段的句子:'You could have been a bit more helpful when we arrested you,' he said to me reproachfully (責(zé)備地) .可知這個警察認(rèn)為如果當(dāng)時作者強烈抗議這件事就不會發(fā)生了,選A
【小題6】推理題:從第三段的內(nèi)容,可知作者只是隨便在街上走,而沒有犯罪,選B
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“There you are,” he said. “Don't lose it on the way home.”
She smiled happily at him as she ran out of the door. Through the window he watched her go. He felt more alone than ever.
Something about Jean Grace and her string of beads had made him feel once more the pain of his old grief. The child's hair was as yellow as the sunlight; her eyes were as blue as the sea. Once upon a time, Pete had loved a girl with hair of that same yellow and with eyes just as blue. And the necklace of blue stones had been meant for her.
But one rainy night, a car had gone off the road and struck the girl. After she died, Pete felt that he had nothing left in the world except his grief. The blue eyes of Jean Grace brought him out of that world of self-pity and made him remember again all that he had lost. The pain of remembering was so great that Pete wanted to run away from the happy Christmas shoppers who came to look at his beautiful old things during the next ten days.
When the last shopper had gone, late on Christmas Eve, the door opened and a young woman came in. Pete could not understand it, but he felt that he had seen her before. Her hair was sunlight yellow and her eyes were sea-blue. Without speaking, she put on the counter a package wrapped in pretty Christmas paper. When Pete opened the package, the string of blue beads lay again before him.
“Did this come from your shop?” she asked.
Pete looked at her with eyes no longer cold. “Yes, it did,” he said.
“Are the stones real?”
“Yes. They aren't the best turquoise(綠松石), but they are real.”
“Can you remember to whom you sold them?”
“She was a small girl. Her name was Jean. She wanted them for her sister's Christmas present.”
“How much were they?”
“I can't tell you that,” he said. “The seller never tells anyone else what a buyer pays.”
“But Jean has never had more than a few pennies. How could she pay for them?”
She paid the biggest price one can ever pay,” he said.
For a moment there was no sound in the little shop. Then somewhere in the city, church bells began to ring. It was midnight and the beginning of another Christmas Day.
“But why did you do it?” the girl asked.
Pete put the package into her hands.
“There is no one else to whom I can give a Christmas present,” he said. “It is already Christmas morning. Will you let me take you to your home? I would like to wish you a Merry Christmas at your door.”
And so, to the sound of many bells, Pete Richards and a girl whose name he had not yet learned walked out into the hope and happiness of a new Christmas Day.
【小題1】When Pete saw Jean Grace, he was ______.

A.very enthusiastic, hoping for some business to be done
B.cold but he still served the young customer
C.cold, unwilling to serve the young customer
D.very warm to the young customer though he did not want to sell anything to her
【小題2】Pete did not say the price of the necklace because ______.
A.the seller never tells anyone else what a buyer pays
B.he priced the necklace too high
C.he knew it would disappoint the girl
D.he didn't want to sell the necklace
【小題3】The eyes of Jean Grace brought Pete out of his world of self-pity and he ______.
A.tried to forget the memory of his sweetheart
B.began to look at the world optimistically
C.remembered his lost love
D.no longer felt the pain in him
【小題4】A young woman came into the shop because ______.
A.she was afraid that there might be some mistake
B.she thought that the stones she had bought were not real
C.she was not sure if she could get more stones like those
D.she did not like what she had once bought
【小題5】By saying “She paid the biggest price one can ever pay,” Pete meant that Jean Grace    .
A.gave the most money for the necklace
B.gave all she had with her for the necklace
C.a(chǎn)ppreciated the value of the necklace
D.wanted to have the best thing in the shop
【小題6】 At the end of the story we see that Pete _____.
A.found another girl that he could trust
B.met someone who truly loved him
C.found a place to go at last
D.regained his ability to love

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