Упр.2 Юнит 5.1 ГДЗ Starlight Баранова 11 класс
Reading 2 Read the title of the text and the first sentence in each paragraph. What can the text be about?
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Reading
2 Read the title of the text and the first sentence in each paragraph. What can the text be about? Read through and check if your guesses were correct.
Caught in the Act
I wasntaskt exporting it to be a great day, just a normal work day, but neither was I expecting it to be quite as bad as it turned out. It started pleasantly enough, with a quiet cup of coffee watching the morning news before setting off for work Then the doorbell rang, so I opened the door thinking perhaps the postman was making an early delivery. Instead, I found myself face to face with two uniformed police officers. Of course, I was taken aback but I managed to ask calmly what I could do for them. With very grim looks on their faces, they told me I was being arrested for the robbery of a local post office and that I was being taken to the station for questioning.
They put me in an interrogation room. I was so stunned that I dontaskt know how long I sat there just staring blankly at the walls. It felt ire I’d been in there for hours and for all I knew, it had been hours. Then my mind started racing with a thousand questions. Why had no one come to question me? How could they think that I was a criminal when I had been a law-abiding citizen all my life? Most of all, how could this have happened to me? It wasn’t long before I found out
A stem-faced detective entered the room and I smiled nervously. He gave me a long, hard look and asked me about my whereabouts on the 18th of the month. I started to panic because that was the day I had called in sick at work and I’d stayed at home. This meant I had no alibi, of course. Then he dropped the bombshell. He knew I was guilty because fie robbery had been caught on CCTV and someone had called in to identify me. My mood suddenly changed from fear and alarm to outright fury. I demanded to see a lawyer and I was not going to answer any more questions until I got one.
While I waited for the lawyer to arrive. I sat there fuming about who could have identified me as the robber. There was no way it could be a close friend or a member of my family. I was sure of that I wondered if it was someone who had made a genuine mistake. But that didn’t seem likely either. Perhaps it was someone with a grudge against me. All I knew for sure was that it felt very strange to be wrongly accused of a crime by someone who must know me.
Finally, my lawyer walked into the room. She had such an air of confidence about her that I immediately relaxed. She fired rapid questions about my arrest at the detective and raised a questioning eyebrow when he told her that I’d been identified on CCTV. She didntaskt seem in the least bit impressed by this supposedly crucial evidence and demanded to see the pictures. К was now the detective who was beginning to look a bit worried as he scuttled off to fetch the pictures.
He placed a series of pictures on the table. In one. I could see a very faint image of a man of my height and build with a similar hairstyle to mine. Another picture showed a close-up of the man’s face but the picture was so blurred that it was impossible to tell who it was. It could have been me or thousands of other young men with similar features. My lawyer laughed, although she didntaskt seem very amused. With barely controlled anger she told the detective that such pictures could not be used to identify me and that no court would accept them. She added that as I had no criminal record and was a citizen of good standing, I should be released immediately unless they fad any further evidence against me.
To my utter relief I was released without charge just over an hour later. What has my experience taught me? Despite the fact that this country has more CCTV surveillance than any other country in the world and the government has spent millions of pounds on it, many of the images are so bad it can result in a completely innocent person spending a day at the police station. People are always complaining that Big Brother is watching but in my personal experience ittasks worse when he’s caught steeping on the job.