Question

Real policemen hardly recognize any resemblance between their lives and what they see on TV.

The first difference is that a policeman’s real life revolved round 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 a street after someone he wants to talk to.

Little of his time is spent in chatting．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 of stupid crimes.

Most television crime drama is about finding the criminal：as soon as he’s arrested, the story is over．In real life, finding criminal is seldom much of a problem．Except in very serious cases like murders and terrorist attacks, little effort is spent on searching.

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.

A third big difference between the drama detective and the real one is the unpleasant pressures：first, as members of a police force, they always have to behave absolutely in accordance with the law．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 simple-minded－as he see it－of citizens, social workers, doctors, law-makers, and judges, who, instead of eliminating crime, punish the criminals less severely in the hope that this will make them reform．The result, detective feel, is that nine-tenths of their work is re-catching people who should have stayed behind bars．This makes them rather cynical.

1. A policeman has to be trained in criminal law because _________.

A. he must work hard to help reform criminals

B. he must behave as professional lawyers do

C. he must be able to tell when and where a crime is committed

D. He must justify the arrests he makes of criminals

2. What is the most suitable word that describes the work of a policeman according to the passage?

A. Dangerous

B. Demanding

C. Distressing

D. Dramatic

3. According to the passage,policemen spend most of their time and efforts_________．

A. patrolling(巡逻)the street, rain or shine

B. tracking and arresting criminals

C. collecting and providing evidence

D. consulting the rules of law

4. Why do policeman feel separated from the real of the world?

A. Because they do not receive due support from society.

B. Because they find people insincere to them．

C. Because they feel superior to the simple-minded people around them．

D. Because they are suspicious of the people around them．

Answer 1

答案：1．D;2．B;3．C;4．A;
解析：

(1)	从第二段第二句可知，警察要确切地知道什么样的行为是犯罪，什么样的证据能被用在法庭上以证实是犯罪行为，因此要学习犯罪学。
(2)	根据全文，特别是three differences可判定警察的工作是“费力的；苛求的”。
(3)	细节理解题。从第五段可知，罪犯被捕后，警察的工作才刚刚开始。为了在法庭上证实犯罪，警察必须搜集大量的证据。
(4)	从最后一段可知，几乎没有人对警察讲真话，就连法官都轻判罪犯而让他们不得不花大量的时间和精力去重新抓捕罪犯，因此警察对没有得到应有的社会支持而感到与社会隔离。