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(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, clev
(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, clev
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(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 die 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 dish-towels. 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.
What can be inferred from the statements taken from the witnesses?
选项
A、The murder weapon had belonged to Andy for a long time.
B、Andy told the bartender what he would do in Quentin’s house.
C、The evidence collected from the turnout proved Andy had been there.
D、The dish-towels used as silencers were those Andy bought that night.
答案
C
解析
推理判断题。根据题干提示定位至第九段和第十段。第九段最后一句指出,总检察长办公室负责此案的探员证实,在距离平房不到70码的地方有一个岔路口,9月11日下午,从该岔路口带走了三项物证:第一项,两个纳拉甘西特啤酒的空夸脱瓶(上面有被告的指纹);第二项,十二个烟头(全是库尔牌的,正是被告抽的牌子);第三项,一组轮胎辙痕的石膏模型(与被告1947款普利茅斯的轮胎磨损完全吻合)。由这三个证据可以推测出,安迪曾经开车来过这个岔路口,故C符合文意,为答案。第九段第一句提到刘易斯顿市(Lewiston)怀斯当铺(Wise Pawnshop)的一位店员证实,就在这起双重谋杀案发生的前两天,他卖给了安迪-杜佛兰一支点三八英寸口径的警察专用手枪,弹容量为六发。由此可知,凶器是安迪案发前临时购买的,而不是他拥有很久的武器,A与原文表述不符,故排除;该段第二句指出乡村俱乐部的一位酒保作证说,安迪于9月10日晚上7点左右进来,在二十分钟的时间里灌下了三杯纯威士忌——当他从吧凳上站起来时,他告诉酒保他要去格林-昆丁家,并且酒保可以“通过看报纸了解后续发展”,由此可知,安迪只告诉酒保他要去格林-昆丁家,但并未直接告诉酒保他会在格林-昆丁家做什么,故排除B;第十段最后一句提到探员推理说,凶手把这些毛巾包在枪口上,以便消去枪声,虽然在第九段第三句提到一家便利店店员证实安迪在案发当晚买过一些擦碗布,但原文并未表明探员是否证实了案发现场发现的四条擦碗布就是安迪所购买的,故排除D。
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