two men standing together. Several minutes after her leaving, the men murdered a person working
in the building. Police investigators determined that the woman was the only witness who had seen
the two suspects, and could possibly describe them. In an interview with police, her memory of the
men proved disappointingly unclear.
Several days later, psychologist Ronald P. Fisher was brought in to obtain a more complete
account from the woman. Fisher’s interview produced a breakthrough-the woman reported a clear
picture of one of the suspects. She then recalled several details about his appearances. This information
gave police important leads that enabled them to arrest the suspects and close the case.
Police investigators sought the help from Fisher because of his rich knowledge in conducting the
so-called cognitive (认知的) interview, a kind of memory-rebuilding process. In its original form, the
cognitive interview focuses on guiding witnesses through four general recalling techniques: thinking
about physical surroundings and personal feelings that existed at the time of past events, reporting
everything that comes to mind about those events no matter how broken or unconnected, retelling
events in a variety of time orders, beginning to end, end to beginning, forward or backward, and
adopting different perspectives while recalling events.
Usually, an interviewer begins the cognitive approach by encouraging the witness to take an
active role in recalling information rather than giving answers only to someone else’s questions.
The witness first describes what happened in his or her own words, with no interviewer interruptions.
The interviewer then goes further with specific techniques, such as having the witness tell the details
of what happened from different perspectives.
Experiments with police detectives trained in this demanding interview method find that they get
nearly 50% more information from witnesses than before training, while error rates remain about
the same.
B. To explain why Fisher was invited to a police interview.
C. To describe how cognitive method helps the woman to recall.
D. To give the readers an idea of cognitive interview.
B. giving her encouragement
C. rebuilding her memory
D. giving her more time
a _______role.
B. questioning
C. passive
D. secondary
B. The witness is encouraged to take an active role in recalling information.
C. The interview should take place outside the police station.
D. The witness should recall details at the scene of the event.
B. decrease the error rate
C. solve the cases more quickly
D. use the method more skillfully than the psycholologists
"What is it?" I 1 . I turned it over. There, in faded (已褪色的) ink, was a hand-scrawled (手写的) 2 . Immediately my mind traveled back many years.
I was nine years old, 3 down the cold, wet streets of Springfield, with a bag of 4 on my
shoulder. On my 5 that day, I came to that Company finally, whose owner, Mr. Rader, had always
6 me there to ask his workers whether they 7 any magazines.
Shaking off the 8 like a wet dog, I entered Mr. Rader"s office. After a quick glance he 9 me
over to the fire-place. Noticing the hole in the top of my 10 , he said, "Come with me!", pulling me into
his pick-up truck. We pulled to a stop before a shoe shop. Inside, a salesman 11 me with the finest
pair of Oxfords I had ever 12 . I felt about 10 feet tall when I 13 in them. "We"d like a air of new
14 , too." Mr. Rader said.
Back in his office, Mr. Rader took out a 15 , wrote something on it, and handed it to me. With
16 eyes, I read, "Do to others as you would have them do to you." He said affectionately (深情地),
"Jimmy, I want you to 17 I love you."
I said good-bye, and for the first time I 18 a flicker (闪烁) of hope that somehow things would be
all right. With people like Mr. Rader in the world, there was hope, kindness and 19 and that would
always make a 20 .
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It was a holiday weekend. The police officers were sitting in a hot room __1__ instructions from their captain. One of these officers __2_ Ed Williams. He and ten other officers were on special __3__because they knew that over the weekend two weeks __4__over 400 people had died from accidents __5__by drivers. Over 4,000 people had received serious injuries, all caused by drunken drivers. The __6__ would try their best to prevent __7__accidents before they happened. Joe Forest was __8__himself at a family party. It was getting late and Joe told his sister that he was __9__. Joe"s sister asked him to stay and wait a few hours __10__he drove. "Don"t worry. I"m going to be fine. I"m going to drive slowly. I only had a few __11__,"Joe said. Officer Williams was at his post __12_ the passing cars. A green car was coming, __13_ from left to right. Officer Williams stopped __14_ and told Joe to get out. He asked Joe to walk __15_ the white line. Joe took the test. Officer Williams told Joe that he must appear in court the next week and he __16_ drive his car home. Joe called his sister to come and drive him __17_ . That was Joe"s first offense (违法). He appeared in court and received a $400 fine. He was not __18_ to drive for sixty days. Other drivers were __19_ , for Joe hadn"t killed them. But what about the future, was Joe going to stop __20_ ? | |||||||||||||||
( )1. A. giving ( )2. A. knew ( )3. A. duty ( )4. A. passed ( )5. A. met ( )6. A. captains ( )7. A. these ( )8. A. enjoying ( )9. A. tired ( )10. A. before ( )11. A. glasses ( )12. A. watching ( )13. A. weaving ( )14. A. the man ( )15. A. beside ( )16. A. had to ( )17. A. out ( )18. A. allowed ( )19. A. glad ( )20. A. enjoying himself | B. receiving B. saw B. advice B. were enough B. caused B. drivers B. such B. helping B. drunken B. when B. minutes B. waiting B. looking B. the car B. in B. mustn"t B. away B. promised B. unlucky B. breaking the law | C. accepting C. were C. visit C. later C. killed C. passengers C. above C. drinking C. leaving C. unless C. drinks C. serving C. broken C. driving C. onto C. must C. at once C. able C. lucky C. drinking and driving | D. learning D. was D. time D. earlier D. discovered D. officers D. more D. eating D. back D. while D. miles D. searching D. driven D. working D. along D. didn"t have to D. home D. willing D. astonished D. drinking at his sister"s | ||||||||||||
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Red roses were her favorites, her names was also Rose. And every year her husband sent them, tied with pretty bows. The year he died, the roses were still 1 to her door. Each year he sent her roses, and the 2 would always say, "I love you even more this year, than last year on this day." My love for you will always 3 , with every passing year. "She knew this was the last time 4 the rose would appear. Her loving husband did not know that he would 5 . he always liked to do things early. Then, if he got too busy, 6 would work out fine." A year went by, and it was 7 to live without her mate. Then, the very hour, as on Valentines before, the doorbell rang, and there were roses, sitting by her door. She brought the roses 8 , calling the florist shop. The owner answered, and she asked him , if he would explain, why would someone do this to her, 9 her such pain? "I know your husband passed away, more than a year ago," The owner said, "I knew you"d 10 , and you would want to know. " " The flowers you received today, were 11 in advance." "You husband always planned ahead, he left nothing to chance." She thanked him and 12 the phone, her tears now flowing hard. Her fingers shaking, as she slowly reached to 13 the card. Inside the card, she saw that he had written her a note. This is what he wrote: "Hello my love, I know it"s been a year 14 I"ve been gone, I hope it hasn"t been too hard for you to overcome." "I know it must be lonely, and the pain is very 15 . for if it was the other way, I know how I would feel. The love we shared 16 everything so beautiful in life. I loved you more than words can say." "You were my friend and lover, I know it"s only been a year, 17 please try not to grieve. I want you to be happy, 18 when you shed your tears. That is why the roses will be sent to you for years." "When you get these 19 , think of all the 20 that we had together, and how both of us were blessed. I have always loved you and I know I always will. My love, you must go on, you have some living still." | |||||||||||||||
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