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Word Pretest

For each italicized word or expression, choose the best meaning below.

1. Last' week the police finally had a suspect for the murder.
A. a person who commits a crime
B. a person who witnesses a crime
C. a person who is thought to be guilty of a crime
2. In her old age she chose to live an isolated life, refusing to see any visitors.
A. a lonely life
B. a safe life
C. a meaningful life
3. Three of the athletes were disqualified for taking drugs.
A. discovered
B. declared unfit
C. fined
4. She is obsessed with the desire to become a great scientist.
A. convinced
B. excited
C. preoccupied
5. There are now tough penalties for drunken drivers.
A. regulations
B. rules
C. punishments
6. The next session of Parliament will begin in November.
A.election
B. formal meeting
C. budget
7. One witness testified that he had seen the prisoner run out of the bank after it had been robbed.
A. made a formal statement
B. made a critical analysis
C. made a casual remark
8. As there was enough evidence to prove his guilt, the public was startled to hear that the defendant was acquitted at last.
A. arrested
B. put into jail
C. freed from the accusation

Text A
The Matter of McVeigh

As lawyers prepare for an indictment, new details emerge about the main    suspect in the bombing As he waits for an indictment and a trial that could send him to his death, Timothy McVeigh -- the suspected bomber of the Oklahoma City federal building, leads an isolated life in his 8-ft. by 12-fi. cell in the Federal Correctional Institute in El Reno, Oklahoma. He is under camera watch 20 hours a day. He cannot even see anyone from his cell except the armed guard who sits right outside. Would-be visitors are discouraged; even McVeigh's lawyer, Stephen Jones, has to go through three layers of security to see his client. McVeigh leaves his cell rarely, chained at the ankles and wrists and taken away in a windowless, bulletproof van to the Oklahoma City federal courthouse. From its window, grand jurors can clearly see the ruins of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building that McVeigh is suspected of having bombed on April 19, killing 168 people.
Jones obtained 95 pages of McVeigh's academic records from the Starpoint Central School in Lockport, New York, near the Canadian border. According to the    documents, McVeigh was a bright (IQ 128 above average), hard-working student who got bad-disciplined at times but earned mostly A's and B's through high school, falling just outside the top 20% of his class, which disqualified him for the training he wanted as a computer programmer. More strikingly, year after year, his teachers described him as a likable youngster in their evaluations of him. A Mrs. Lane who taught the fifth grade wrote that Tim had been a pleasant, cooperative boy to work with that year and had been an active, contributing participant in all group activities.
How did he turn into the gun-obsessed loner described in most reports of his   activities between his time in Army service and the Oklahoma bombing? It will be   sometime before an explanation could be offered.
The deadline for the grand jury to prepare an indictment is this Friday. Jones plans to ask permission to present to the grand jury evidence that he claims he and six assistants have dug up in their own investigation which will prove McVeigh's   innocence. He will also ask the grand jury to call more witnesses. If granted, Jones'   request may put off the deadline for indictment -- for how long is uncertain.
The attorney is already developing themes he intends to use at the trial. One is an attack on the government for excess enthusiasm. In particular, he attacks President Clinton and Attorney General Janet Reno for announcing that the government would seek the death penalty "before grand jury had heard a single piece of evidence," as the lawyer wrote in a letter to Patrick Ryan, U. S. Attorney in Oklahoma City. Under Justice Department rules, after an indictment Ryan will have to recommend to Reno what penalty to seek and wait for an official answer. Jones claims the Reno-Clinton call for the death penalty -- before investigators even had a suspect -- broke Justice's own rules.
The evidence Jones wants to present to the grand jury this week comes from an   informant who, according to the lawyer, told the FBI in early April that he knew of ao bomb plot in the Midwest. The attorney says he has interviewed the man who   presented a list of details about a plan to bomb a "federal court building." It is said   people involved in this plot were Arabs. Arab terrorists, of course, were the immediate targets of public suspicion before McVeigh's arrest.
Jones further claims there were two explosions, meaning perhaps two bombs. He also says a police has told him a leg not belonging to any of the known dead was found. He suggests it belonged to the "real" bomber, who failed to get away in time and blew himself up. Even if some or all of this can be proved, it does not 'necessarily clear McVeigh: there could have been two bombs and two bombers.
Meanwhile, the government, which said last week that three or four people would be indicted in the case, is also preparing its case. Timothy's sister Jennifer McVeigh testified for three hours to the grand jury last week bursting into tears at least twice outside the sessions. Jones says if Jennifer testifies she will say things helpful to the defense. He gives a list of names of famous defendants who were acquitted against the seeming weight of evidence. If he can do the same for McVeigh, it will be the biggest surprise of all.

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Total reading time: __ minutes   　　  seconds             
The text is based on "The Matter Of McVeigh" by George J. Chui-ch in Time, August 14, 1995.

◆Reading Comprehension
Decide whether each of the following statements is true or false.

           1. Timothy McVeigh is the suspected bomber of the Oklahoma City federal         building.
             2. McVeigh has gone through a trial and has been sentenced to death.
           3. McVeigh was unable to become a computer programmer because he was not among the top 20% of his class.
            4. McVeigh was disliked by many of his teachers at the Starpoint Central         School.
           5. McVeigh's academic records clearly showed that he would commit crimes         one day.
           6. McVeigh once served in the army.
           7. The deadline for indictment could be postponed, but how long is uncertain.
            8. According to the U.S. legal system, the government has no right to announce the death penalty before the trial.
           9. The evidence Jones wants to present to the grand jury is that someone else         planned to bomb a federal building.
           10. The author believes that everybody would be surprised if McVeigh is found guilty.

  
◆Vocabulary Building
①Word Search
Find a word in the texts which means:

1. protection against theft, attack, escape from prison, etc. (A: 7)
2. that stops bullets from going through it (A: 8)
3. a date or time before which something must be clone or completed (A: 24)
4. more than necessary (A: 30)
5. start a legal case against someone (B: 10)
6. charge officially (B: 43)
7. call or bring before a court of law to face a serious charge (B: 48)
8. declare oneself to be (guilty or not guilty) in answer to the charge (54)
9. a formal statement that something is true (B: 66)
10. the official decision made by a jury in a court of law (B: 98)
11. the act of granting a convicted person freedom on the promise of good behavior(B: 116)
12. change (e.g. a decision or judgment) to the opposite (B: 133)

② Semantic Variations
For each italicized word, decide which semantic variation best expresses the meaning of the author. Circle the letter of the best answer.

1. plot (A: 40)
A. a small piece of land
B. a secret plan to do something
C. the arrangement of connected events on which a story, film, etc. is based
2. civil (B: 1)
A. not military or religious
B. polite enough to be acceptable
C. concerned with judging private quarrels between people
3. suit (B: 11)
A. to have the right qualities for
B. the act of suing in a court of law
C. a set of clothes of the same material
4.file (B: 25)
A. send in officially
B. a set of data for a computer stored under one name
C. a collection of papers on one subject
5. character (B: 91)
A. a letter, mark
B. a person in a film, book, play, etc.
C. reputation
6. appeal (B: 123)
A. attraction
B. a formal request to a higher law court to change the decision of a lower court
C. a strong request for help, support, kindness, etc.

③Stems
Study the following stems and their meanings. List some more examples in the space provided.

rupt      1.           2.           3.           4:                      
pend     1.           2.           3.           4:                       

Read each of the following sentences, and write down the meaning of the italicized word in the space provided.

1. The government decides to take strict measures against all forms of political corruption.
corruption:     

2. Pendulum clocks usually strike on the hour.
pendulum:

3. The volcano is due to erupt any day.
erupt:

4. There were many bankruptcies in the business world last year.
bankruptcy:

5. This new type of jet airliner is dependable.
dependable:

6. It is not polite to interrupt when someone is speaking.
interrupt:

7. The colonies declared their independence from England.
independence:

8. Bus service will be suspended until the highway is repaired.
suspend:

④Antonyms
Circle the one word in each of the following groups that is the antonym of the other three.

1. rarely          frequently     sporadically       seldom
2. permission      authorization   prohibition        allowance
3. dispute         argument      controversy        agreement
4. recommend      advise        advocate          disapprove
5. prejudice        fairness       bias              partiality

◆Cloze
Fill in each blank with a word given below. Change the form of the word if necessary.

     admission     increase  professional   threaten      admit
vehicles      survey   unskilled     relatives      caught

About one London boy in eight between the ages of 13 and 16         having been caught by the police for stealing at some time, according to a supported by the Home Office and reported by Dr. William Belson, director of the Survey Research Center of the London School of Economics.
Of the 1 400 boys in the survey, one in three said that they had been by someone other than the police. Of the boys who stole, one in four stole from work, one in three stole from        , and one in 20 stole motor     
Two in three said they had entered somewhere without paying for one in seven said they had         others for gain.
Dr. Belson said that although theft tended to         with each step down the social scale there was still a large amount of it among the sons of        , semi- professional and managerial men.
A most surprising finding was that sons of         workers stole somewhat less than those whose fathers were semi-skilled workers.