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Scene I
(The office of Sir Wilfred, one of the finest and most experienced barristers in London. Leonard Vole, a
handsome young man of about thirty and Mr Mayherne, his solicitor come to the office. Mr Mayherne urges Sir
Wilfred to take the case of Leonard Vole, who may be arrested any minute on the charge of murdering Mrs
Emily French. Mrs French, a wealthy widow, was murdered two days ago. She left 80,000 to Leonard Vole,
who had visited Mrs French earlier in the evening on the night of the murder).
MAYHERNE: It's the case of Mrs Emily French. You've probably seen the reports in the press. When the
housekeeper returned from her day off, she found her mistress dead, struck on the back of the head and killed.
SIR WILFRED: I see.
MAYHERNE: I'm sure Vole is harmless chap caught in the web of circumstancial evidence.
VOLE: I haven't murdered anybody. It's absurd! But my wife Christine thought I might need a lawyer.
That's why I went to see Mr Mayherne. But now I have two lawyers. It's rather silly, don't you think?
MAYHERNE: Vole, I am a solicitor. Sir Wilfred is a barrister. Only a barrister can plead a case in court.
Mr Vole, isn't it obvious to you that you will be regarded as the principal suspect in this case? I'm very much
afraid you'll be arrested.
Scene II
(Mr Vole is arrested and now he's in the prisoner's box in one of the courtrooms of the Old Bailey. It is the
first day of Vole's trial. The court is in session. The judge is presiding. The jury, consisting of nine men and
three women are in the jury box. The counsels for the Prosecution and Defence are in their seats.)
COURT CLERK: Leonard Stephen Vole, you are charged on indictment that you on the 14-th day of
October in the County of London murdered Emily Jane French. How say you, Leonard Stephen Vole, are you
guilty or not guilty?
VOLE: Not guilty.
JUDGE: Members of the jury, by the oath you have just taken you swore to try this case on the evidence.
(To the prosecutor.) You may proceed for the prosecution, Mr Myers.
MYERS (rising): The facts in this case are simple. You will hear how the prisoner made the acquaintance
of Mrs Emily French, a woman of 56, how he was treated by her with kindness. Medical testimony will be
introduced to prove that death was caused by a blow from a blunt and heavy instrument and it is the case for the
Prosecution* that the blow was made by the prisoner Leonard Vole!
VOLE: That's not true! I didn't do it!
MYERS: Among the witnesses you will hear police evidence, also the one of Mrs French's houskeeper
Janet Mackenzie, and from the medical and laboratory experts,
and the evidence of the murdered woman's
solicitor, who drew up her final will.
(The prosecutor proceeds with examination of his witnesses, but cross-examination by Sir Wilfred makes
their evidence look rather weak.)
(You'll read the end of the story in the next Unit.)
1. It is the case for the Prosecution — (зд.) обвинение утверждает.
17.3.4. В тексте есть 20 слов, оканчивающихся на -ed.
Можете ли вы определить, в какую группу из 4 групп поместить эти слова?
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Past Indefinite
Perfect Forms
Passive Forms
Participle II
17.3.5. Петр затрудняется в определении форм с суффиксом -ed. Ему дали несколько предложений
с такими словами и, когда он пытался распределить их по группам (см. п. 17.3.4), он сделал несколько
ошибок. Помогите ему.
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a) The USA has lost the in-
a) The man has created the
dustrial dominance it en-
new unusual robot.
joyed after World War II.
b) Senator Brown's bill
hasn't been adopted.
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a) The programme adopted
a) The revolution abolished
by Parliament was a new
the landlord system and
stage in the development
handed over all the land
of the country.
to the peasants.