研究生公共英语听说(下)原文LESSONTwo

1、lesson twocrime and punishment1. m: hello?w: hello. this is dr. grey's office we are calling to remind you of your 4:15 appointment for your annual checkup tomorr ow.m: oh, thanks. it's a good thing you called. i thought it was 4:15 today.q: why is the office calling the man?2. w: how wonder

2、ful! you won the scholarship can youbelieve it?m: no. if s almost too good to be trueq: what does the man mean?3. w: excuse me, professor davidson. but i was hoping to talkto you about my class project for economicsm: i have a class in a few minutes. why don't you come and see me during office h

3、ours tomorrow?q: when will the woman discuss her project with professor davidson?4. m: how are you feeling?w: the stuff the nurse gave me seemed to have helped. but it's making me awfully drowsyq: what do you learn about the woman?5. m: bill smith has volunteered to write a summary of theproposa

4、ls we've agreed on.w: will i have a chance to review it?q: what does the woman want to know?6 m: the view is spectacula匚 could you take a picture of mewith the mountains in the background?w: i'm afraid i just ran out of 行lm.q: what problem does the woman have?7. w: excuse me, we're ready

5、 to order now.m: ph be with you in just a minute.q: what does the man mean?8. w: i think i forgot my umbrella. did you notice if it is rainingoutside?m: yeah, it is. and i just realized i left my car windowopen.q: what will the man probably do next?9. w: how does your daughter like her new school?m:

6、 fine. she seems to have made new friends in no time.q: what can be infeited about the man's daughter?10. w: there!s an article here in this magazine you might findinteresting. itfs about buying running shoesm: if it's not chemistry and it's not on the final exam, i can't read it now

7、.q: what is the man probably doing?11. m: you're washing your car even on vacation. it makes mefeel guilty.w: you shouldrtt, it's just that i have nothing better to do at this momentq: what do you think of the woman?12. m: my doctor told me i need to go for some expensivetreatments for my in

8、jured kneew: are you sure? maybe you need a second opinion.q: what does the woman suggest the man do?13. w: hello. could you fit me in for an appointment today? ineed a stylist who is good at cutting curly hair.m: julia is good at that. she is the owner. how about noon? q: what will the woman probab

9、ly do?14. w: there's nothing i like more than a good mystery novelwhen pve got some spare timem: i like to read, too. but i prefer non-fiction, history, social commentary and stuff like that.q: what does the man imply?15. m: fm not an expert, but that noise in your refrigeratordoesn't sound

10、good maybe you should call and have it checked out.w: you!re right. and 1 suppose pve put it off long enough. q: what will the woman probably do?passage ipurse snatching is an increasingly common crime. there are estimated 50 to 100 purse snatchings each month in the new york city subways, the numbe

11、r often swinging widely because of the depredations of a single teenage匚 when such a professional is in custody, the snatches can decrease by more than 50 a month. one of the favored techniques is to stand between two subway cars and, as a train starts pulling out of the station, reach out and pull

12、free a woman's purserecently, a crime analysis officer for the new york police department found that purse stealing in manhattan's top restaurants was up 35 percent over the previous year. when a woman puts her purse on an empty chair at a table or at her feet beside her chair, she is inviti

13、ng a purse snatcher to take it. purse snatchers often work in pairs. when a target in a restaurant is seen, one of them will create some kind of disturbance to gain the victim's attention. while the woman is looking away from her table, the actual snatcher will lift the purse a popular technique

14、 is for the thief to carry an umbrella with the curved handle down. the umbrella handle suddenly hooks the bag and in an instant it is on the thiefs wrist, or under the coat over his arm if he is a man, and on its way out of the restaurant. police advise that women in restaurants keep their purse ei

15、ther on their laps or on the floor between their legs.other purse snatchers who operate in theaters are called "seat tippers1*, victimizing women who put their purses down on a neighboring empty seat. others specialize in snatching purses from ladies* rooms when a woman is in a toilet stall, he

16、r purse should never be placed on the floor or hung on the coat hook on the doo匚 thieves simply dive under the door and grab the purse on the floor, or stand on the toilet in the next stall and reach over and take the purse off the hook. the snatcher has enough time to escape since the victim can

17、9;t immediately pursue the thief.i.1. when does the number of purse snatchings decrease most dramatically?2. where does a purse snatcher like to commit crimes in subwaystations?3. when women are in restaurants, where are they advised to put their purses?4. what does a thief often use to snatch purse

18、s in restaurants?5. according to this passage, where does purse snatching not usually occur?ii.crime analysis officer; top restaurants; an empty chair; to take it; in pairs; some kind of disturbance; snatching purses; never be placed; coat hook; in the next stall;enough time to escapepassage iion th

19、e afternoon of july4,1995, mrs.beatrice weinberger brought her one-month old baby back from an outing. she left the pram outside her house and hurried inside to get the baby a clean nappy. when she returned a few moments later, the pram was empty and a scrawled note was lying where her baby had been

20、.the note said: "attention. i badly need money, and can't get it any other way. don't tell the police about this, otherwise i will kill the baby.""just put $2,000 in small bills in a brown envelope, and place it next to the road lamp at the corner of albamarle rd. at exactly 1

21、0 o'clock tomorrow (thursday) morning.hnif everything goes smooth, i will bring the baby back and leave him on the same corner 'safe and happy* at exactly 12 noon. no excuse, i can not wait! your baby-sitte匚"despite the kidnappers warning, mrs. weinbarger contacted the police.a small pa

22、rcel containing broken pieces of newspaper was placed on the comer the following morning but the kidnapper did not show up. he failed to keep two othef9 appointmentsn with the weinbergers, and left a second note signed "your baby-sitter1. by then, the police felt that the baby was no longer ali

23、ve.the fbi was called in, and the handwriting experts set to work to try to track down the kidnappe匚 in both notes an unusual z-shaped stroke was placed at the front of the y in words such as "money” and "baby".starting with the new york state police office, the experts spent the next

24、 six weeks carefully going over local records at police offices, factories, hotels, clubs and schools and examining handwriting samples and comparing them with the writing on the kidnappers notesthen, in the middle of august, the experts* hard efforts paid off. the handwriting of john rush blake mat

25、ched that of the kidnappers, especially in the peculiar formation of the 卩s.not long after, john blake was arrested for making illegal alcohol. on being shown the handwriting samples, he confessed to kidnapping the baby. he told the police that he had left the baby alive and well in a nearby park on

26、 the day after the kidnapping. but when officers hurried to the place, all they found was the baby!s dead body the criminal was later put into new york's sing sing prison.even if john blake had tried to disguise his handwriting he would still have been caught.no matter how hard someone may try t

27、o disguise his handwriting characteristics, the nindividualityn of the writer shows through, the very angle at which he or she holds a pen, the way a t is crossed and an i is dotted, the height and size of capital and small letters, the amount of space between words, the use (or misuse) of punctuati

28、on marks. all these can identify a person as surely as fingerprintsi.1. what happened to mrs weinberger on the afternoon of july 4th，1995?2. according to the message left by the kidnapper, on what condition could mrs. weinberger have her baby back?3. what did mrs. weinberger do after reading the not

29、e?4. how did the fbi catch the criminal?5. which of the following words can best describe people's handwriting characteristics?ii.1. ( t ) when mrs. weinberger came back from an outing something terrible happened to her.2. ( t) someone kidnapped her baby because he lacked money.3. ( f ) the kidn

30、apper did not confess to die kidnapping of thebaby in the face of the handwriting sample.4. (t) it was the handwriting expert that broke the case.5. ( f ) at last, the police found the baby and he was safe andhapp y.passage iii.timothy mcvaigh placed a powerful bomb near a federal government buildin

31、g in oklahoma city in 1995 the explosion killed 168 people, including 19 children.arguments are increasing in the united states both for and against the death penalty. the increasing death penalty debate is caused by the planned execution of convicted murderer mcveigh. he is to be the first person e

32、xecuted by the federal government since 1963 38 states permit the death sentence last year 85 people were executed in the united states.recent public opinion studies show that more than 75 percent of americans supper mcveigh's execution. these include many americans who usually oppose the death sentence kent scheidegger is with the criminal justice legalfoundation in california it is a v