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(1) When Andy came to Shawshank in 1948, he was thirty years old. He was a short neat little man with sandy hair and small, clev
(1) When Andy came to Shawshank in 1948, he was thirty years old. He was a short neat little man with sandy hair and small, clev
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(1) When Andy came to Shawshank in 1948, he was thirty years old. He was a short neat little man with sandy hair and small, clever hands. He wore gold-rimmed spectacles. His fingernails were always clipped, and they were always clean. That’s a funny thing to remember about a man, I suppose, but it seems to sum Andy up for me. He always looked as if he should have been wearing a tie. On the outside he had been a vice-president in the trust department of a large Portland bank. Good work for a man as young as he was, especially when you consider how conservative most banks are...and you have to multiply that conservatism by ten when you get up into New England, where folks don’t like to trust a man with their money unless he’s bald, limping, and constantly plucking at his pants to get his truss around straight. Andy was in for murdering his wife and her lover.
(2) As I believe I have said, everyone in prison is an innocent man. Oh, they read that scripture the way those holy rollers on TV read the Book of Revelation. They were the victims of judges with hearts of stone and balls to match, or incompetent lawyers, or police frame-ups, or bad luck. They read the scripture, but you can see a different scripture in their faces. Most cons are a low sort, no good to themselves or anyone else, and their worst luck was that their mothers carried them to term.
(3) In all my years at Shawshank, there have been less than ten men whom I believed when they told me they were innocent. Andy Dufresne was one of them, although I only became convinced of his innocence over a period of years. If I had been on die jury that heard his case in Portland Superior Court over six stormy weeks in 1947 -1948, I would have voted to convict, too.
(4) It was one hell of a case, all right: one of those juicy ones with all the right elements. There was a beautiful girl with society connections (dead) , a local sports figure (also dead) , and a prominent young businessman in the dock. There was this, plus all the scandal the newspapers could hint at. The prosecution had an open-and-shut case. The trial only lasted as long as it did because the DA (地方检察官) was planning to run for the U. S. House of Representatives and he wanted John Q Public to get a good long look at his phiz (脸). It was a crackerjack legal circus, with spectators getting in line at four in the morning, despite the subzero temperatures, to assure themselves of a seat.
(5) The facts of the prosecution’s case that Andy never contested were these: That he had a wife, Linda Collins Dufresne: that in June of 1947 she had expressed an interest in learning the game of golf at the Falmouth Hills Country Club: that she did indeed take lessons for four months: that her instructor was the Falmouth Hills golf pro, Glenn Quentin: that in late August of 1947 Andy learned that Quentin and his wife had become lovers: that Andy and Linda Dufresne argued bitterly on the afternoon of 10 September 1947: that the subject of their argument was her infidelity.
(6) He testified that Linda professed to be glad he knew: the sneaking around, she said, was distressing. She told Andy that she planned to obtain a Reno divorce. Andy told her he would see her in hell before he would see her in Reno. She went off to spend the night with Quentin in Quentin’s rented bungalow not far from the golf course.
(7) The next morning his cleaning woman found both of them dead in bed. Each had been shot four times.
(8) It was that last fact that mitigated more against Andy than any of the others. The DA with the political aspirations made a great deal of it in his opening statement and his closing summation. Andrew Dufresne, he said, was not a wronged husband seeking a hot-blooded revenge against his cheating wife: that, the DA said, could be understood, if not condoned. But this revenge had been of a much colder type. Consider! the DA thundered at the jury. Four and four! Not six shots, but eight! He had fired the gun empty...and then stopped to reload so he could shoot each of them again! FOUR FOR HIM AND FOUR FOR HER, the Portland Sun blared. The Boston Register dubbed him The Even-Steven Killer.
(9) A clerk from the Wise Pawnshop in Lewiston testified that he had sold a six-shot. 38 Police Special to Andrew Dufresne just two days before the double murder. A bartender from the country club bar testified that Andy had come in around seven o’clock on the evening of 10 September, had tossed off three straight whiskeys in a twenty-minute period—when he got up from the bar-stool he told the bartender that he was going up to Glenn Quentin’s house and he, the bartender, could "read about the rest of it in the papers". Another clerk, this one from the Handy-Pik store a mile or so from Quentin’s house, told the court that Dufresne had come in around a quarter to nine on the same night. He purchased cigarettes, three quarts of beer, and some dish-towels. The county medical examiner testified that Quentin and the Dufresne woman had been killed between eleven p. m. and two a. m. on the night of 10 -11 September. The detective from the Attorney General’s office who had been in charge of the case testified that there was a turnout less than seventy yards from the bungalow, and that on the afternoon of 11 September, three pieces of evidence had been removed from that turnout: first item, two empty quart bottles of Narragansett Beer (with the defendant’s fingerprints on them): the second item, twelve cigarette ends (all Kools, the defendant’s brand) : third item, a plaster moulage of a set of tyre tracks (exactly matching the tread-and-wear pattern of the tyres on the defendant’s 1947 Plymouth).
(10) In the living room of Quentin’s bungalow, four dishtowels had been found lying on the sofa. There were bullet-holes through them and powder-burns on them. The detective theorized (over the agonized objections of Andy’s lawyer) that the murderer had wrapped the towels around the muzzle of the murder-weapon to muffle the sound of the gunshots.
What was the author’s attitude towards prisoners who claimed to be innocent?
选项
A、He believed each of them was innocent.
B、He expressed sympathy for their experience.
C、He thought it was none of his business.
D、He thought most of them were guilty.
答案
D
解析
观点态度题。根据题干定位至第三段。第三段第一句提到在作者待在肖申克的这些年里,当他们对他说自己无辜时,他相信其中真正无辜的人不超过十个。由此可以判断作者认为大多数自称无辜的罪犯其实有罪,故D为答案。第二段第一句虽然提到作者相信自己曾经说过,每个坐牢的人都是清白无罪的,但这句话是在讽刺那些自称无辜的囚犯,因为紧接着下文把囚犯比作电视上那些宗教狂热者,并在该段第四句表明他们诵读宗教经文,却口是心非。最后一句直接指出大多数囚犯都是卑劣者,对他们自己或者其他任何人都无益,而他们最差的运气就是他们的母亲把他们生了下来。由此可知,作者并不相信每一个囚犯都是无辜的,故排除A;第二段第三句虽然提到他们由于铁石心肠的法官、无能的律师、警察的诬陷,或者糟糕的运气,成了受害者,但这也是作者用来讽刺囚犯们辩解自己入狱的借口,而不是同情他们的遭遇,故排除B;原文并未提及作者是否认为囚犯自称无辜这件事与他无关,故排除C。
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