Questions 11 to 15 are based on the same passage

or dialog.

Real policemen, both in Britain and the United

States, hardly recognize any resemblance (相似) between their lives and what they

see on TV-if they are even able to watch TV.

The first difference is that in real life a policeman has been trained in

criminal law. He has to know exactly what actions are crimes and what evidence

can be used to prove them in court.

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, petty (不重要的) crimes.

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.

A third big difference is between the drama detective and the real life ones.

Detectives are subject to two opposing pressures: first, as members of a police

force they always have to behave with absolute legality (合法); 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 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 stamping out crime, punish the criminals less

severely in the hope that this will make them reform. The result, detectives

feel, is that nine-tenths of their time is spent re-catching people who should

have stayed behind bars. This makes them rather cynical.

11. It is essential for a policeman to be

trained in criminal law ___C_____.

A. so that he can catch criminals in the

streets

B. because many of the criminals he has to

catch are dangerous

C. so that he can justify his arrests in

court

D. because he has to know nearly as much

about law as a professional lawyer

12. The everyday life of a policeman or

detective is ____C___.

A. exciting and mysterious

B. full of danger

C. devoted mostly to routine

matters

D. wasted on unimportant matters

13. When murders and terrorist attacks occur the

police ___B_____.

A. prefer to wait for the criminal to give

himself away

B. work hard to track down the

criminals

C. try to make a quick arrest in order to

keep up their reputation

D. usually fail to produce results

14. The real detective lives in an unusual moral

climate because ____C___.

A. he is an expensive public

servant

B. he must always behave with absolute

legality

C. he is obliged to break the law in order

to preserve it

D. he feels himself to be cut off from the

rest of the world

15. Detectives are rather cynical because

__C_____.

A. nine-tenths of their work involves

arresting people

B. hardly anyone tells them the

truth

C. society does not punish criminals

severely enough

D. D too many criminals escape from

jail