新视野大学英语读写教程听力 第三册 te-unit01-c

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[00:-1.00]1  For more than half an hour 38 respectable Brooklyn,
[00:-2.00]New York citizens watched a man attack
[00:-3.00]and stab a woman three separate times.
[00:-4.00]Twice their talk and the sudden glow of their bedroom lights frightened him off.
[00:-5.00]Each time he returned and stabbed her again.
[00:-6.00]Not one person telephone the police during the attack;
[00:-7.00]one person called after the woman was dead.
[00:-8.00]2  That was two weeks ago.
[00:-9.00]3  Still shocked is Assistant Police Chief Keith Williams,
[00:10.00]in charge of the Brooklyn detectives.
[00:11.00]He can tell you the facts of many murders.
[00:12.00]But this killing leaves him confused-not because it is a murder,
[00:13.00]but because "good people" failed to call the police.
[00:14.00]4  "As we understand it," he said,
[00:15.00]"the man had three chances to kill this woman during a 35-minute period.
[00:16.00]He returned twice to complete the job.
[00:17.00]If we had been called when he first attacked,
[00:18.00]the woman might not be dead now."
[00:19.00]5  This is what the police say happened
[00:20.00]beginning at 3:20 AM in the proper,
[00:21.00]tree-lined neighborhood:
[00:22.00]6  Twenty-eight-year-old Marissa Parry
[00:23.00]was returning home from her job as manager of a bar.
[00:24.00]She parked her car in a lot next to the local railroad station,
[00:25.00]locked the door,
[00:26.00]and started to walk the 100 feet to the entrance of her apartment.
[00:27.00]The entrance to the apartment is at the rear of the building
[00:28.00]because the front of the building contains small stores.
[00:29.00]The neighborhood was covered in a sleeping darkness.
[00:30.00]7  Miss Parry noticed a man at the far end of the lot,
[00:31.00]near a seven-story apartment house. She halted.
[00:32.00]Then, nervously, she headed up the street,
[00:33.00]where there is a police call box.
[00:34.00]She got as far as a street light in front of a bookstore before the man grabbed her.
[00:35.00]She screamed.
[00:36.00]Lights went on in the ten-story apartment house across the street.
[00:37.00]Windows were opened and voices spoke in the early-morning stillness.
[00:38.00]8  Miss Parry screamed: "Oh, my God, he stabbed me!
[00:39.00]Please help me! Please help me!"
[00:40.00]9  From one of the upper windows in the apartment house,
[00:41.00]a man called down: "Let that girl alone!"
[00:42.00]10  The man looked up at him,
[00:43.00]shrugged and walked down the street toward a white car parked a short distance away.
[00:44.00]Miss Parry struggled to her feet.
[00:45.00]11  Lights went out. The man returned to Miss Parry,
[00:46.00]now trying to make her way around the side of the building
[00:47.00]by the parking lot to get to her apartment.
[00:48.00]The man stabbed her again.
[00:49.00]12  "I'm dying!" She called out. "I'm dying!"
[00:50.00]13  Windows were opened again,
[00:51.00]and lights went on in many apartments.
[00:52.00]The man got into his car and drove away.
[00:53.00]Miss Parry staggered to her feet.
[00:54.00]A city bus passed. It was 3:35 AM.
[00:55.00]14  the man returned. By then,
[00:56.00]Miss Parry had crawled to the back of the building,
[00:57.00]where doors to the apartment house held out hope for safety.
[00:58.00]The killer tried the first door;
[00:59.00]she wasn't there. At the second door,
[-1:00.00]he saw her lying on the floor at the foot of the stairs.
[-1:-1.00]He stabbed her a third time-killing her.
[-1:-2.00]15  It was 3:50 by the time the police received their first call,
[-1:-3.00]from a man who was a neighbor of Miss Parry.
[-1:-4.00]In two minutes they were at the scene.
[-1:-5.00]The neighbor, a 70-year-old woman,
[-1:-6.00]and another woman were the only persons on the street.
[-1:-7.00]Nobody else came forward.
[-1:-8.00]16  The man explained that he had called the police after much thought.
[-1:-9.00]He had phoned a friend for advice