1 Underline the most suitable
word or phrase.
a) Sally didn't realise that she had broken/countered/denied
the law.
b) The police have banned/cancelled/refused parking
in this street.
c) I must remember to get a/an agreement/licence/permission
for my television.
d) The
president admitted that there had been a breakdown of law and crime/government/order.
e) Jim's parents wouldn't agree/allow/let him
go to the demonstration.
f) Jake was arrested because he had entered the
country falsely/illegally/wrongly.
g) Talking to other students is against the law/orders/rules
of the examination.
h) The two men were arrested before they could commit/make/perform
any more crimes.
i) I had
to take the company to court/justice/law to get the money they owed me.
j) Smoking is compulsory/prohibited/refused
near the petrol tanks.
2 Match word in the box with a suitable description (a-l).
a)This person takes control of a plane or boat by force hijacker.....
b) This person sees what happens during a crime or accident
c) This person brings goods into the country illegally
d) This person might steal food from a supermarket
e) This person kills someone on purpose
f) This person takes people and demands money for their return.
g) This person makes illegal copies of paintings, documents, etc.
h) This person damages other people's
property
i) This person might steal your wallet in
a crowd
j) This person steals from houses
k) This person gets money from others by
threatening to tell secrets.
1) This person causes trouble at football
matches
3 Complete each sentence (a-j) with a suitable ending
(1-10). Use each ending once.
a) I decided to buy a burglar alarm after someone
broke .5.
b) When Alan was stopped outside the supermarket he
ended
c) As it was Sheila's first offence she was let
d) After climbing over the prison wall, Peter managed
to get
e) The old couple who live opposite were taken
f) At the end of the trial Hilary was found
g) My neighbours admitted denting my car but got away
h) The bank at the end of the street was held
i) Nobody saw Jack cheating and he got away with
j)
The hijackers took fifteen people
1 in by a salesman who cheated them out of
their money.
2 away by stealing a car parked nearby.
3 up at the police station, charged with
shoplifting.
4 it, although everyone suspected what had
happened.
5 into my house and stole my stereo.
6 off with only a warning.
7 with paying only £100 damages.
8 hostage and demanded £1,000,000 from the
authorities.
9 guilty and
sentenced to six months in prison.
10 up by two
masked men last week.
4 Complete each sentence with a word from the box. Use each word once
only:
a) The customs officers arrested Bob and charged
him with smuggling.
b) The police spent all morning searching
the house for
c) Jean left her car in a no-parking area
and had to pay a/an
d) Unfortunately at the end of the trial
my brother was found
e) The trial took a long time as the
couldn't reach a verdict.
f) George won his case because he had a
very good defence
g) The police visited Dawn and asked her
to make a/an
h) Because of his past criminal record,
Brian was the main
i)
Pauline decided to sue the police because she had been wrongly
j) The
murderer of the children received a life
5 Choose the most suitable word or phrase to complete
each sentence.
a) Most
schools in my country no longer have D. punishment.
A)
physical B) capital C) bodily D) corporal
b) The
policemen following the robbers were in clothes.
A) plain
B) ordinary C) normal D) simple
c) The
two old ladies were of their purses.
A) stolen
B) attacked C) robbed D) snatched
d) At the
end of the story, the hero manages to arrest the
A)
offenders B) villains C) wrongs D) evils
e) I had
to answer question A because it was
A)
compulsory B) necessary C) a must D) an obligation
f)
Charles could not having been at the scene of the crime.
A) refuse
B) object C) deny D) alter
g) As
there was no evidence, the judge dismissed the
A)
trial B) witness C) court D) case
h) If your dog damages your neighbour's
property, you could be
A) guilty B) liable C) payable D) illegal
i) After ten years in prison, Stephen was and set free.
A) pardoned B) released C) innocent D) forgiven
j) The detective inspector told the young to make some tea.
A)
officer B) official C) guardian D) police
6 Rewrite each sentence, beginning as shown, so that the meaning stays
the same.
a) They
said that John had stolen the money.
They
accused ....John of stealing the money.
b) Ian
said that he hadn't punched anybody.
Ian
denied
c) 'OK,
Andy, you can go now,' said the detective.
The
detective gave Andy
d) 'James
Frogget, you will go to prison for ten years,' said the judge.
The judge
sentenced
e) 'I
forged the signature,' said Mary.
Mary
admitted
f) Harry
stole £60,000 and was arrested.
Harry was
arrested
g) 'We
saw the accused break into the car,' said the witnesses.
The witnesses stated
h) Graham said that he wouldn't go to the
police station.
Graham refused
i) 'It's true,' said Norman, 'I murdered Alan.'
Norman confessed to
j) 'Can you come with me, please,' the detective said to Helen.
The detective asked
7 Use the word given
in capitals at the end of each line to form a word that fits in the space in
the same line.
Arthur's life of crime
At his
last trial, nobody believed in Arthur's (1) .innocence. . He
INNOCENT
had been
accused of the (2) of a valuable Chinese vase, THIEF
and was
also charged with ten other (3) The value of OFFEND
the (4)
goods was said to be over £20,000. Arthur said STEAL
in his
own (5) that the vase had been put into his car DEFEND
(6) He
also pointed out that the Chinese vase was a ACCIDENT
fake, and
was almost (7) The judge did not believe WORTH
Arthur's
story. He told Arthur he was a hardened (8) CRIME
and that
he deserved a severe (9) Then PUNISH
the judge
sentenced Arthur to five years' (10) PRISON
Arthur
just smiled. He had spent most of his life in prison and so he was used to it.
