【文章內(nèi)容簡介】 h the curved handle down. The umbrella handle suddenly hooks the bag and in an instant it is on the thief39。s wrist, or under the coat over his arm if he is a man, and on its way out of the restaurant. Police advise that women in restaurants keep their purse either on their laps or on the floor between their legs. Other purse snatchers who operate in theaters are called seat tippers, victimizing women who put their purses down on a neighboring empty seat. Others specialize in snatching purses from ladies39。 rooms. When a woman is in a toilet stall, her purse should never be placed on the floor or hung on the coat hook on the door. Thieves simply dive under the door and grab the purse on the floor, or stand on the toilet in the next stall and reach over and take the purse off the hook. The snatcher has enough time to escape since the victim can39。t immediately pursue the thief. I. 1. When does the number of purse snatchings decrease most dramatically? 2. Where does a purse snatcher like to mit crimes in subway stations? 3. When women are in restaurants, where are they advised to put their purses? 4. What does a thief often use to snatch purses in restaurants? 5. According to this passage, where does purse snatching not usually occur? II. crime analysis officer。 take it。 purses。 in pairs。 top restaurants。 an empty chair。 to some kind of disturbance。 coat hook。 snatching never be placed。 in the next stall。 enough time to escape Passage II On the afternoon of July4,1995, Weinberger brought her onemonth old baby back from an outing. She left the pram outside her house and hurried inside to get the baby a clean nappy. When she returned a few moments later, the pram was empty and a scrawled note was lying where her baby had been. The note said: Attention. I badly need money, and can39。t get it any other way. Don39。t tell the police about this, otherwise I will kill the baby. Just put $2,000 in small bills in a brown envelope, and place it next to the road lamp at the corner of Albamarle Rd. at exactly 10 o39。clock tomorrow (Thursday) morning. If everything goes smooth, I will bring the baby back and leave him on the same corner 39。safe and happy39。 at exactly 12 noon. No excuse, I can not wait! Your babysitter. Despite the kidnapper39。s warning, Mrs. Weinbarger contacted the police. A small parcel containing broken pieces of newspaper was placed on the er the following morning. But the kidnapper did not show up. He failed to keep two other” appointments with the Weinbergers, and left a second note signed Your babysitter39。. By then, the police felt that the baby was no longer alive. The FBI was called in, and the handwriting experts set to work to try to track down the kidnapper. In both notes an unusual zshaped stroke was placed at the front of the y in words such as money and baby. Starting with the New York State Police Office, the experts spent the next six weeks carefully going over local records at police offices, factories, hotels, clubs and schools and examining handwriting samples and paring them with the writing on the kidnapper39。s notes. Then, in the middle of August, the experts39。 hard efforts paid off. The handwriting of John Rush Blake matched that of the kidnapper39。s, especially in the peculiar formation of the y39。s. Not long after, John Blake was arrested for making illegal alcohol. On being shown the handwriting samples, he confessed to kidnapping the baby. He told the police that he had left the baby alive and well in a nearby park on the day after the kidnapping. But when officers hurried to the place, all they found was the baby39。s dead body. The criminal was later put into New York39。s Sing Sing Prison. Even if John Blake had tried to disguise his handwriting he would still have been caught. No matter how hard someone may try to disguise his handwriting characteristics, the individuality of the writer shows through, the very angle at which he or she holds a pen, the way a t is crossed and an i is dotted, the height and size of capital and small letters, the amount of space between words, the use (or misuse) of punctuation marks. All these can identify a person as surely as fingerprints. I. 1. What happened to Mrs. Weinberger on the afternoon of July 4th, 1995? 2. According to the message left by the kidnapper, on what condition could Mrs. Weinberger have her baby back? 3. What did Mrs. Weinberger do after reading the note? 4. How did the FBI catch the criminal? 5. Which of the following words can best describe people39。s handwriting characteristics? II. 1. ( T ) When Mrs. Weinberger came back from an outing something terrible happened to her. 2. ( T ) Someone kidnapped her baby because he lacked money. 3. ( F ) The kidnapper did not confess to die kidnapping of the baby in the face of the handwriting sample. 4. ( T ) It was the handwriting expert that broke the case. 5. ( F ) At last, the police found the baby and he was safe and happy. Passage III. Timothy McVaigh placed a powerful bomb near a federal government building in Oklahoma City in 1995. The explosion killed 168 people, including 19 children. Arguments are increasing in the United States both for and against the death penalty. The increasing death penalty debate is caused by the planned execution of convicted murderer McVeigh. He is to be the first person executed by the federal government since 1963. 38 states permit the death sentence. Last year 85 people were executed in the United States. Recent public opinion studies show that more than 75 percent of Americans supper McVeigh39。s execution. These include many Americans who usually oppose the death sentence. Kent Scheidegger is with the Criminal Justice Legal Foundation in Califomia. It is a victim39。s rights organization that supports the death penalty. Mr. Scheidegger says McVeigh is a perfect example of why there is a need for a federal death penalty. He says anything less than the death of McVeigh would show a plete lack of justice. Groups oppo