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Crime in Great Britain

About 90 per cent of all crimes are dealt with by Magistrates’ courts. Sentences (that is, the punishments decided by the court) vary a lot but most people who are found guilty have to pay a fine. Magistrates’ courts can impose fines of up to £2,000 or prison sentences of up to six months. If the punishment is to be more severe the case must go to a Crown Court. The most severe punishment is life imprisonment: there has been no death penalty in Britain since 1965.

The level of recorded crime and the number of people sent to prison both increased during the 1970s and 1980s. By the end of that period the average prison population was more than 50.000 and new prisons had to be built as overcrowding had become a serious problem. By 1988 the cost of keeping someone in prison was over £250 per week, which was than the national average wage.

Hercules Poirot

The famous fictional detective, the Belgian Hercules Poirot, made his first appearance in 1920 in The Mysterious Affair at Styles written by the best selling novelist Agatha Christie (1891 – 1976) and he appeared in many of her stories after that. The heyday of Poirot’s popularity was the period between the two World Wars, but he is undergoing a revival in films, especially Murder on the Orient Express and Death on the Nile. Plump, vain and dapper, Poirot has moustaches of which he is very proud and a weakness for exhorting people to use their “little grey cells” (their brains).

8. Контрольное задание № 4

   2. Вариант 1

1. Перепишите и письменно переведите текст.

Пояснения к тексту

1. shoplifting – кража в магазине

2. Magistrates’ court – мировой суд

3. Magistrate – мировой судья

4. dock – скамья подсудимых

5. bench – скамья (место) судей;

6. solicitor – стряпчий, поверенный

The Innocent and the Guilty

1. Imagine, if you can, that you have been arrested for something like shoplifting, or for dangerous driving, or for getting drunk and causing "a disturbance of the peace". You are in a Magistrates’ Court now.

2. You, "the accused", are in a kind of a large, open box. It is called "the dock". You are "in the dock". There are three Magistrates "on the bench" in front of you. In front and below them there is another man "The clerk of the court".

3. The case begins. The policeman who arrested you gives evidence. He tells the court when and why he arrested you, what you said, what he said and so on. Your solicitor questions or "cross-examines" him. One of the Magistrates speaking for all three also asks questions. Other witness appears. The Magistrate also asks him what he saw. Perhaps you yourself say nothing at all. You do not have to speak in your defense "Everyone is innocent unless proved guilty". In other words, you do not have to prove that you are innocent. The police have to prove you are guilty.

4. At the end the Magistrates discuss your case in low voice in front of you. You try to hear, but cannot. Then the Clerk of the Court tells you to stand. The Magistrate who has done the talking for the others tells you whether they have found you innocent or guilty. He can sentence you to no more than six months in goal for one offence, to a maximum of one year for two or more offences or to a fine of 400 pounds.

2. Выпишите из текста и переведите на русский язык предложения на согласование времен и косвенную речь.

3. Раскройте скобки, употребляя глагол в требуемом времени. Переведите предложения.

1. I know there (to be) two criminal courts in Britain.

2. I knew he (to present) the case in court the next week.

3. We were sure that he (to break) the window of our car and (to steal) the radio two days before.

2. He understood why the policeman (to arrest) him.

4. Передайте следующие предложения в косвенной речи, а затем переведите их на русский язык.

1. Mr. Morgan said:” I don’t want a lawyer.”

2. Chief Inspector said to the reporters:” The robbers won’t avoid punishment.”

3. The policeman asked Tony:” How many robbers were there?”

4. The man said to me: “Tell him everything tomorrow.”