LAW AND PUNISHMENT

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 517.

AN ARREST

VOCABULARY

· Put each of the following words in its correct place in the passage.

A policeman was sent to (a) _________ the disappearance of some property from a hotel. When he arrived, he found that the hotel staff had caught a boy in one of the rooms with a camera and some cash. When the policeman tried to (b) _________ the boy, he became violent and the policeman had to (c) _________ him. At the police station the boy could not give a satisfactory explanation for his actions and the police decided to (d) __________ him with the (e) __________ of the camera and cash. They took his (f) __________, locked him in a (g) ________, and (h) __________ him overnight. The next morning he appeared in (i) __________ before the (j) __________. He took an (k) __________ and (l) ___________ not guilty. Two (m) _________, the owner of the property and a member of the hotel staff, gave (n) __________. After both sides of the case had been heard the boy was (o) _________ guilty. He had to pay a (p) _________ of £50 and he was given a (q) _________ of three months in prison suspended for two years.

· Put each of the following words and phrases in its correct place in the passage.

13. If you want legal advice in Britain, you go to a __________.

14. At the end of the __________, the judge ordered the twelve men and women of the __________ to retire and consider their __________, guilty or not guilty.

15. Men or women who look after prisoners in prison are called prison officers or __________.

16. If a person dies in unusual circumstances, an __________ is held at a special court, and the judge is called a __________.

17. A policeman who investigates serious crime is called a __________. He wears _________, not uniform.

18. In some countries murderers are executed but other countries have abolished the _________.