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2014年职称英语真题理工类A级(word版)补全短文

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  WronglyConvicted Man and His Accuser Tell Their Story

  NEW YORK,NY, January 5,2010. St.Martin’s Press has announced the release of the paperback edition ofPicking Cotton, a remarkable true story of what novelist John Grisham calls an “account of violence, rage, redemption(救赎),and, ultimately forgiveness.”

  The story began in 1987, in Burlington, NorthCarolina, with the rape of a young while college student named JenniferThompson. During her ordeal, Thompson swore to herself that she would neverforget the face of her rapist, a man who climbed through the window of herapartment and assaulted her brutally.____F____(46)When the police asked her ifshe could identify the assilant(袭击者)from a book of mugshots, she picked one that she was sure was correct, and later she identifiedthe same man in a lineup.

  Based on her convincing eye withnesstestimony, a 22-year-old black man named Ronald Cotton was sentenced to prisonfor two life terms. Cotton’s lawyer appealed thedecision, and by the time of the appeals hearing, evidence had come to lightsuggesting that the real rapist might have been a man who looked very likeCotton, an imprisoned criminal named Bobby Poole.__B____(47)Jennifer Thompsonlooked at both men face to face, and once again said that Ronald Cotton was theone who raped her.

  Eleven years later, DNA evidence completelyexonerated(证明……清白)Cotton and just as unequivocally(明确地) convicted Poole, who confessed to the crime. _____E___(48) “The man I was so sure I had never seen in my life was the man whowas inches from my throat, who raped me, who hurt me, who took my spirit away,who robbed me of my soul,” she wrote. “And the man I had identified so surely on so many occasions wasabsolutely innocent.”

  ____C___(49) Remarkably both were able to putthis tragedy behind them, overcome the racial barrier that divided them, andwrite a book, which they have subtitled “Our memoir ofinjustice and redemption.”

  Nevertheless, Thompson says, she still lives “with constant pain that my profound mistake cost him so dearly__A____(50)”

  A. Jennifer Thompson decided to meet Cottonand apologize to him personally.

  B. Many criminals are sent to prison on thebasis of accurate testimony by eye withnesses.

  C. I cannot begin to imagine what would havehappened had my mistaken identification occurred in a capital case

  D. Another trial was held.

  E. Thompson was shocked and devastated.

  F. During the attack, she made an effort tomemorize eveery detail of his face, looking for scars, tattoos(纹身),or other identifying marks.

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