Unit-4-Law-答案和原文.docVIP

LawC. Warm-up listening exercise.Listen to a conversation about law and choose the best answers to the questions you hear.How many cases are the two speakers talking about?One. B. Two.C. Three. D. Four.2. What did the two young men do to the old woman? A. They killed her. B. They took her jewelry. C. They beat her and took away money from her. D. They broke her apartment.3. What sentence did the man get for murdering his stepson? A. He got three months in prison. B. He got a conditional discharge. C. He got two years in prison. D. He got 3 years in prison.4. Why did the train robbers get 30 years in prison? A. Because they injured many passengers. B. Because they hit the driver. C. Because they warned other people. D. Because they robbed people of a lot of money.5. According to the man, which is worse, stealing things or causing injury to people? A. Stealing things. B. Causing injury to people. C. Both are bad. D. Difficult to say.Script: Sally: Ridiculous, absolutely ridiculous.Paul: What’s ridiculous?Sally: The law! The sentence people get for crimes of violence.Paul: What particular case are you talking about?Sally: The one in the paper I saw yesterday. These two young men broke into an old lady’s apartment, tied her up, forced her to tell them where she kept her money, left her with a broken nose, a broken arm, bruise all over her body and stole her life savings, $ 1000. Do you know what they got?Paul: What did they get?Sally: One was sent to prison for three months; the other got a conditional discharge.Paul: Yes, it does seem ridiculous. I read about a case yesterday where a man got two years for murdering his baby stepson.Sally: Yet some of the great train Robbers got 30 years and they didn’t actually injure anybody.Paul: Yes, they did. They hit the driver of the train over the head.Sally: Oh, yes. I remember now, but that was an accident, really. It wasn’t intended. Anyway they didn’t get 30 years for hitting th