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  3. Passage One (1) When Andy came to Shawshank in 1948, he was thirty year

Passage One (1) When Andy came to Shawshank in 1948, he was thirty year

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问题     Passage One
    (1)  When Andy came to Shawshank in 1948, he was thirty years old. He was a short neat little man with sandy hair and small, clever hands. He wore gold-rimmed spectacles. His fingernails were always clipped, and they were always clean. That’s a funny thing to remember about a man, I suppose, but it seems to sum Andy up for me. He always looked as if he should have been wearing a tie. On the outside he had been a vice-president in the trust department of a large Portland bank. Good work for a man as young as he was, especially when you consider how conservative most banks are...and you have to multiply that conservatism by ten when you get up into New England, where folks don’t like to trust a man with their money unless he’s bald, limping, and constantly plucking at his pants to get his truss around straight. Andy was in for murdering his wife and her lover.
    (2)  As I believe I have said, everyone in prison is an innocent man. Oh, they read that scripture the way those holy rollers on TV read the Book of Revelation. They were the victims of judges with hearts of stone and balls to match, or incompetent lawyers, or police frame-ups, or bad luck. They read the scripture, but you can see a different scripture in their faces. Most cons are a low sort, no good to themselves or anyone else, and their worst luck was that their mothers carried them to term.
    (3)  In all my years at Shawshank, there have been less than ten men whom I believed when they told me they were innocent. Andy Dufresne was one of them, although I only became convinced of his innocence over a period of years. If I had been on the jury that heard his case in Portland Superior Court over six stormy weeks in 1947-1948, I would have voted to convict, too.
    (4)   It was one hell of a case, all right; one of those juicy ones with all the right elements. There was a beautiful girl with society connections (dead) , a local sports figure ( also dead) , and a prominent young businessman in the dock. There was this, plus all the scandal the newspapers could hint at. The prosecution had an open-and-shut case. The trial only lasted as long as it did because the DA (地方检察官) was planning to run for the U. S. House of Representatives and he wanted John Q Public to get a good long look at his phiz (脸). It was a crackerjack legal circus, with spectators getting in line at four in the morning, despite the subzero temperatures, to assure themselves of a seat.
    (5)  The facts of the prosecution’s case that Andy never contested were these-. That he had a wife, Linda Collins Dufresne; that in June of 1947 she had expressed an interest in learning the game of golf at the Falmouth Hills Country Club; that she did indeed take lessons for four months; that her instructor was the Falmouth Hills golf pro, Glenn Quentin; that in late August of 1947 Andy learned that Quentin and his wife had become lovers; that Andy and Linda Dufresne argued bitterly on the afternoon of 10 September 1947; that the subject of their argument was her infidelity.
    (6)  He testified that Linda professed to be glad he knew; the sneaking around, she said, was distressing. She told Andy that she planned to obtain a Reno divorce. Andy told her he would see her in hell before he would see her in Reno.  She went off to spend the night with Quentin in Quentin’s rented bungalow not far from the golf course.
    (7)  The next morning his cleaning woman found both of them dead in bed. Each had been shot four times.
    (8)  It was that last fact that mitigated more against Andy than any of the others. The DA with the political aspirations made a great deal of it in his opening statement and his closing summation. Andrew Dufresne, he said, was not a wronged husband seeking a hot-blooded revenge against his cheating wife; that, the DA said, could be understood, if not condoned. But this revenge had been of a much colder type. Consider! the DA thundered at the jury. Four and four! Not six shots, but eight! He had fired the gun empty...and then stopped to reload so he could shoot each of them again! FOUR FOR HIM AND FOUR FOR HER, the Portland Sun blared. The Boston Register dubbed him The Even-Steven Killer.
    (9)  A clerk from the Wise Pawnshop in Lewiston testified that he had sold a six-shot. 38 Police Special to Andrew Dufresne just two days before the double murder. A bartender from the country club bar testified that Andy had come in around seven o’clock on the evening of 10 September, had tossed off three straight whiskeys in a twenty-minute period—when he got up from the bar-stool he told the bartender that he was going up to Glenn Quentin’s house and he, the bartender, could "read about the rest of it in the papers". Another clerk, this one from the Handy-Pik store a mile or so from Quentin’s house, told the court that Dufresne had come in around a quarter to nine on the same night. He purchased cigarettes, three quarts of beer, and some dishtowels. The county medical examiner testified that Quentin and the Dufresne woman had been killed between eleven p. m. and two a. m. on the night of 10 -11 September. The detective from the Attorney General’s office who had been in charge of the case testified that there was a turnout less than seventy yards from the bungalow, and that on the afternoon of 11 September, three pieces of evidence had been removed from that turnout: first item, two empty quart bottles of Narragansett Beer (with the defendant’s fingerprints on them); the second item, twelve cigarette ends (all Kools, the defendant’s brand); third item, a plaster moulage of a set of tyre tracks (exactly matching the tread-and-wear pattern of the tyres on the defendant’s 1947 Plymouth).
    (10)  In the living room of Quentin’s bungalow, four dishtowels had been found lying on the sofa. There were bullet-holes through them and powder-burns on them. The detective theorized (over the agonized objections of Andy’s lawyer) that the murderer had wrapped the towels around the muzzle of the murder-weapon to muffle the sound of the gunshots.  [br] The purpose of the writer in writing Andy’s job is to________.
选项 A、compare his job with men of his age
B、show his achievements since his job was hard to get
C、elaborate how conservative his workplace was
D、introduce what kind of people would win bank clients’ trust
答案 B
解析 推断题。根据题干定位至第一段。该段第七句提到入狱前，安迪曾是波特兰一家大银行信托部的副总裁，这表明安迪入狱前的工作很好。紧接着第八句指出：对于和他一样年轻的人来说，这是一份好工作，尤其是当你想到大多数银行有多么保守的时候……而且在你奋斗进新英格兰之后，你得把这种保守性放大十倍。在当地，人们不喜欢把钱委托给他人，除非这个人秃顶，步履蹒跚，而且总在拉自己的长裤，好让裤子周围的线条变得笔挺。该句通过将安迪与同龄人对比，阐明新英格兰银行的保守性以及介绍当地人所信任的银行工作人员的类型，进一步强调安迪能够获得这份好工作是多么难得，由此表明他入狱前的成就，故[B]为答案。[A]、[C]、[D]分别是作者描述安迪工作时所涉及的三个方面，并非作者的写作目的，故均排除。
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