编辑点评:
近代英语在威廉·莎士比亚所处的时期开始繁荣,一些学者将之分为早期近代英语与后期近代英语,分界线为1800年左右。随着大英帝国对全世界大部分地区的占领和殖民,当地语言也很大程度上影响了英语的发展。
41. policing整顿
42. grim坚强不屈的
NOTES II:
本文属新闻报道体裁,为专题介绍,选自1981年的“Reader’s Digest”2月号。 这类文章应以实为主,所涉及的为真人真事。 文中有较多的专业性词汇,并引用权威人士的原话,以增加文章的可信度。 新闻报道的题目往往新奇费解,这样才能吸引读者,以一读为快, 问一个究竟。如本文题目为“Medical Examiners”,则对此不感兴趣的读报者,往往一瞥而过。再者,加上文字流畅易懂,层次分明,环环相扣,且每一段都具有故事情节,更增强其可读性 。
EXERCISE I
True (T) or False (F)?
1. ( ) The text tells us about some detectives , who usually disguise themselves as doctors.
2. ( ) Almost every big firm in the U.S.A. employs one or two such detectives in white coats.
3. ( ) Besides the criminal cases the detectives in white coats also care for the public-health.
4. ( ) The medical examiners have to take painstaking process in identifying bodies.
5. ( ) Actually the detectives in white coats have to work with the help of medical examiners.
EXERCISE II
Multiple Choice:
1. “…the middle-aged woman on the living room floor is beyond saving.” It means that ______.
a. she has to be taken away for a better medical treatment
b. she has spent all her money
c. she has come to the end of her life
2. After the investigation of Martha’s case, the police detectives thought ______.
a. the case was rather complicated
b. the case was very clear
c. they could do nothing for that case
3. Detectives in white coats are actually ______.
a. policemen in disguise
b. doctors and physicians
c. medical examiners
4. The victims at the People’s Temple settlement were killed with ______.
a. poison
b. guns
c. gas
5. The detectives in white coats sometimes have to work with ______.
a. coroners
b. experts
c. forensic pathologists
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