PET5 Unit3 listening comprehension

PART AM：ManW: WomanM：Did you hear on the news today about that uh… murderer who was executed?W：: I can‟t believe it.M：Yeah. That‟s the first time in ten years that they‟ve used capital punishment.W: I just can‟t believe in our society today that they would actually likk another human being. Nobody has the right to take another person‟s life.M: Oh, I don‟t agree. Listen, I think it‟s time for capital punishment to come back. I think that‟s exactly what killers deserve.W: No, they don‟t deserve that. Because once you‟re killing a killer, you‟re the killer, too. You become a killer as well.M：No, listen. You take a life, you have to be willing to give up your own. And also, I think that if you have a death penalty it will prevent other people from killing. I think it‟s a good deterrent.W: I don‟t think it‟s a good deterrent at all. My goodness gracious. I mean, first of all, are you sure the person you‟re convicted to death is really guilty?M: Well, I think that‟s a very rare…very rare incidence.W: I don‟t think it‟s rare, (I don‟t think it‟s…) with all the crackerjack lawyers we have today, (Well, no…I…) and the judicial system the way it is.M: I think it‟s a rare incidence, and I think it‟s more important to get rid of the …the bad seed, you know?W: But you don‟t get rid of it. You rehabilitate somebody like that. (Oh…) You don‟t eliminate, you rehabilitate.M: Listen, studies show that criminals are never really rehabilitated. When they‟re…when they come out of prison they just go back to a life of crime, and they‟re hardened by that crime.W: Because the rehabilitation process has to be more than just what‟s in jail. I mean, (Oh… well) when you‟re in jail you do have to work, but when you‟re out of jail there has to be an extensive program. We have to expand on the idea till it works.M: I don‟t agree. Listen-and, anyway, the jails and the prisons are already very crowed, and we have to pay, the taxpayers. Our money goes to maintaining murderers‟ (I…) lives.W: I agree with you. That‟s why it‟s important to look at the problem on a much larger scale. The real problem is a social problem. (What...noo…) There are other problems that cause people to kill. Look at poverty, drugs, discrimination.M: Some people are just bad. They‟re just evil and there‟s nothing you can do.W: No, there…it is...no, it isn‟t true. There‟s rehabilitation. (No.) And they…we‟re all responsible it…for…to humanity. That‟s one of the reasons…M: Well, but in the meantime you have to take care of the people who have already committed…W: I agree with you there.M: Preventative is different, but…W: I agree with you there.Part B1. The UN says its inspectors investigating Iraq nuclear chemical and biologicalweapons programmes have obtained evidence that foreign supplies deliberately violated international export controls. BBC UN‟s correspondent says the inspectors‟first comprehensive report confirms that while many suppliers exported to Iraq legitimately. Our correspondent says the report indicates that the names of the foreign suppliers are likely to be released by the UN, something which is being pressing by a number of governments including Britain and France.2. Most of the front pages of Tuesday morning‟s British newspapers have emotional pictures of the funeral of a 2-year-old James Bordger sparked nation-wide revolution against violent crime. The Times has a picture of a policeman wiping away tears outside the church when the service took place. The Today newspaper says 17 days ago James was an unknown 2-year-old from a poor unemployed family, but the paper says the message of the murder has swept across a shaken and guilty nation to farthest points of the globe.3. A teenager who allegedly stabbed his mother and younger sisters to death, then called 911 and waited for police to arrive, has been charged as an adult in the case and ordered held without bail.Jon Siesling, 17, of suburban Grand Rapids was arraigned Thursday on three counts of open murder before Grandvile District Judge Peter Versluis.An open murder charge can be specified at subsequent court hearings as first-degree murder, carrying mandatory life imprisonment without parole, or second-degree murder, punishable by up to life in prison.A preliminary hearing was set for Jan.31.Siesling was arrested without a struggle shortly after calling 911 Wednesday to report the killings. Officers arriving at the rented home found the bodies of Sharon Ruth Siesling, 42, and her daughters Katelin, 15, and Leah, 6.Each victim suffered multiple stab wounds, police Sgt. Greg Long said.“They were found throughout the house,” Long told The Grand Rapids Press. “It was not limited to one area within that house.”The woman‟s husband and a children‟s father, Jan Siesling, apparently wasn‟t home at the time of the killings, police said.Investigators were trying to determine a motive. Court records showed Siesling had no record of juvenile crime, the Press said.“The whole family was nice. I‟m just absolutely amazed that something happened like that that made that boy snap. I can‟t imagine what it was”, said Michelle Gryka, who owns the home.Part CSerious crimes reported to police declined for the sixth straight year in 1997, but the FBI‟s annual report shows that property crime usually pays in America-although not very much.While television and movies regularly show culprits captured, the FBI‟s annual crime report reveals a harsher truth: The overwhelming majority of robbers, burglars, larcenists and auto thieves are not caught.On the upside, the FBI reported Sunday that serious violent and property crimes reported to police dropped by 2.4percent last year to a total of 13.2 million. The murder rate plunged by 8.1 percent to its lowest level in 30 years.The FBI also reported that police last year solved only 26 percent of the robberies, 20 percent of the larceny-thefts and 14 percent of the burglaries and auto thefts.Worse, Justice Department surveys of the public have shown for years that more than half of the crimes in America are never reported to police. “Only about a quarter of burglaries get reported,” said Professor Alfred Blumstein of Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh. Even fewer larcenies-typically something snatched from a car, shoplifting or a stolen bicycle-are reported.Solution rates for these four crimes have remained virtually unchanged for 20 years.“Either the police happen upon the crime or the victim knows the offender,” Blumstein said. “Without those, chances of solving a crime are minimal.”“In robberies, victims see the offender, though it‟s usually a stranger,”he said. That‟s why robberies are solved more often than burglaries, larcenies or auto thefts in which victim and thief rarely meet.Aggravated assaults are solved much more frequently-58 percent of the time last year-because the victim more often knows the attacker and provides more help catching the culprit, Blunistein noted. Rapes are solved 51 percent of the time.“Community policing is the best way to increase the closure rate,” Hannon said. “The community provides most of the information police use in solving crimes. Where high numbers of crimes remain unsolved, you often have a community estranged from its police department.”On average, property criminals make little profit, not worth even the small chance of detection for most Americans. In 1997, the average robbery loss was $995, ranging from a high of $4,802 in bank robberies to a low of $576 at convenience stores, the FBI said.On average, burglars made off with $1,334, larcenists stole $585 and auto thieves took cars worth $5,416. But those figures overstate the criminals‟gain. “Those are the losses reported by the victims, often to insurance companies. Robbers usually take cash, but the burglar‟s gain is much less, because he takes property that has to be sold to fences at a discount,” Blumstein said. “And many of the auto thefts end up as joy rides.”“Few people with jobs turn to such crime,” Blumstein said, “but it can tempt unskilled people if an economic downturn puts them out of work.”The most frequently solved crime is murder-66 percent of the time last year. That is significantly lower than the 78 percent solved in1975.The homicide solution rate dropped in the late 1970s and the 1980s, then plateaued in the 1990s, because the typical murder changed over the last 255 years, said James Alan Fox, dean of the college of criminal justice at Northeastern University in Boston.“Adults tend to kill people they know very well, family members and declined steadily over two decades as the postwar baby boom hit middle age,” Fox said.“Teenagers kill strangers and acquaintances,”Fox said. “Those are more difficult to solve.” And the juvenile murder rate exploded by 169 percent between 1984 and 1993 with the crack cocaine epidemic and the guns that drug gangs put in the hands of kid”“It‟s not that the police have gotten less competent. The nature of murder has changed, enough to overwhelm technological improvements in police work,” Fox said. “We‟ve taken the …home‟ out of …homicide‟”。