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Real policemen, both in Britain and in the United States, hardly recognize any resemblance between their lives and what they see about themselves on TV.
The first difference is that a policeman's real life revolves round the law. Most of his training is in criminal law. He has to know exactly what actions are crimes and what evidence can be used to prove them in court. He has to know nearly as much law as a professional lawyer, and what is more, he has to apply it on his feet, in the dark and rain, running down an alley after someone he wants to talk to. Little of his time is spent in chatting to charming ladies or in dramatic confrontations with desperate criminals. He will spend most of his working life typing millions of words on thousands of forms about hundreds of sad, unimportant people who are guilty—or not—of stupid, petty crimes.
Most television crime drama is about finding the criminal. As soon as he is arrested, the story is over. In real life, finding criminals is seldom much of a problem. Except in very serious cases like murders and terrorist attacks—where failure to produce results will affect the reputation of the police—little effort is spent on searching. The police have an elaborate machinery which eventually shows up most wanted men. Having made an arrest, a detective really starts to work. He has to prove his case in court and to do that he often has to gather a lot of evidence. He will spend most of his working life typing millions of words on thousands of forms about hundreds of people who act guilty of crimes.
A third big difference between the drama detective and the real one is the unpleasant moral twilight in which the real one lives. Detectives are subject to two opposing pressures: first as members of a police force they always have to behave with absolute legality; secondly, as expensive public servants they have to get results. They can hardly ever do both. Most of the time, some of them have to break the rules in small ways.
1．It is essential for a policeman to be trained in criminal law so that he can____.
A．arrest criminals in the street
B．justify his arrests in court
C．know as much law as a professional lawyer
D．justify himself on TV
2．Only when very serious cases like murders and terrorist attacks occur, will the police____.
A．show up their elaborate machinery
B．fail to produce results
C．spend a lot of effort in finding the criminals
D．pay attention to their reputation
3．“Most wanted men”（Line 4, Para. 3）refers to____.
A．the most dangerous criminals
B．most of the witnesses wanted
C．the majority of those the police are searching for
D．the men the police are most interested in arresting
4．The real detective lives in an unpleasant moral twilight because he____.
A．is an expensive public servant
B．often feels rather depressed
C．is obliged to break the law in order to preserve it
D．must always behave with absolute legality
5．Which of the following statements is true according to this passage?
A．In real life, finding criminals is one of the policemen's greatest problems.
B．The detective's work is over once the arrest has been done.
C．The policeman spends a great deal of time finding evidence to support his arrests.
D．The policeman devotes most of his working life to searching for criminals.
1．【答案】B
【精析】文章第二段中“Most of his training in criminal law. He has to know exactly what actions are crimes and what evidence can be used to prove them in court.”其中B项正是此句的意思，只是换了一种说法。
2．【答案】C
【精析】从文章第三段“In real life, finding criminals is seldom much of a problem. Except in very serious cases like murders and terrorist attacks—where failure to produce results will affect the reputation of the police—little effort is spent on searching.”可知，一般情况下找到罪犯不成问题，只有在发生非常重大的案件时，才需要花费更多的努力来寻找罪犯。此句的关键是把except读出来。
3．【答案】C
【精析】第三段中“The police have an elaborate machinery which eventually shows up most wanted men.”和上文结合起来可推出C项是正确答案。
4．【答案】C
【精析】从文章最后一句话中“...as expensive public servants they have to get results. They can hardly ever do both. Most of the time, some of them have to break the rules in small ways.”可知C项为正确答案。
5．【答案】C
【精析】从文章第三段中“He has to prove his case in court and to do that he often has to gather a lot of evidence.”可知正确答案为C项。