新概念英语III讲义

35 Justice was done

Comprehension questions

1. What is the word justice usually associated with?

2. When has justice been done?

3. Will people who seek justice always find it?

4. Why can judges make mistakes?

5. Does justice sometimes act like a living force?

6. Did the shop assistants probably think ‘it served him right’?

7. Was the shop a new one?

8. What was it?

9. Did it have a lot of disused fireplaces and tall, narrow chimneys?

10. A girl heard a muffled cry. Where was it coming from and who did she tell?

11. And who did the manager ring?

12. How did the firemen locate the right chimney?

13. How thick was the wall that they chipped through?

14. They found that a man had been trapped. Where?

15. How did the fire fighters eventually manage to free the man?

16. Did the man admit that he had tried to break into the shop during the night?

17. Where had he got stuck and how long had he been there?

18. Had justice been done?

Match the words with the definitions

A. innocence

B. undertake

C. arduous

D. cease

E. interference

F. circumstances

G. premises H. resist I. convert J. muffled K. chip L. emerge

1. involving a lot of strength and effort

2. to stop doing something or stop happening

3. the conditions and facts that are connected with and affect a situation, and event or an action

4. to appear or come out from somewhere

5. the fact of being not guilty of a crime

6. an act of deliberately getting involved in a situation where you are not wanted or needed

7. the buildings and land that a store, restaurant, company etc. uses

8. of sounds or voices that cannot be heard clearly, for example because they come from

behind or under something

9. to change from one form, system, or purpose to a different one

10. to stop yourself having something that you like very much or doing something that you

want to do

11. to damage sth by breaking a small piece off it

12. to accept that you are responsible for a piece of work and start to do it

Learn the following phrases

1. be associated with: be connected with

2. beyond doubt: in a way that shows that sth is completely certain

3. mete out: to give sb a punishment; to make sb suffer bad treatment

4. in part: partly; to some extent

5. of one’s own accord: without being asked, forced or helped

6. it serves sb right: used to say what has happened to sb is their own fault and they deserve it