新视野大学英语读写教程听力 第三册 te-unit01-c

[-1:10.00]and then he had gone to the apartment of the elderly woman
[-1:11.00]to get her to make the call.
[-1:12.00]17  "I didn't want to get involved, " he told the police.
[-1:13.00]18  Six days later, the police arrested Vincent Ellis,
[-1:14.00]a 29-year-old business-machine operator,
[-1:15.00]and charged him with murder.
[-1:16.00]Ellis had no previous police record.
[-1:17.00]He is married, has two children and owns a home.
[-1:18.00]On Wednesday,
[-1:19.00]a court committed him to a hospital for observation of his mental condition.
[-1:20.00]When questioned by the police,
[-1:21.00]Ellis said that he had killed two other women.
[-1:22.00]19  The police stressed how simple it would have been
[-1:23.00]to have gotten in touch with them.
[-1:24.00]"A phone call," said one of the policeman,
[-1:25.00]"Would have done it."
[-1:26.00]20  Today people from the neighborhood,
[-1:27.00]Which is made up mostly of expensive one-family homes
[-1:28.00]with the exception of the two apartment
[-1:29.00]houses near the railroad station,
[-1:30.00]find it difficult to explain why they didn't call the police.
[-1:31.00]21  A housewife said,
[-1:32.00]"We thought it was a quarrel between two lovers."
[-1:33.00]A husband and wife both said, "Frankly, we were afraid."
[-1:34.00]22  Another couple, now willing to talk about that night,
[-1:35.00]said they heard the first screams.
[-1:36.00]"We went to the window to see what was happening,"
[-1:37.00]the husband said,
[-1:38.00]"but the light from our bedroom made it difficult to see the street."
[-1:39.00]The wife, still uneasy, added:
[-1:40.00]" I put out the light and we were able t see better."
[-1:41.00]When asked why hadn't called the police,
[-1:42.00]she shrugged and replied: "I don't know."
[-1:43.00]23  A man looked out from his apartment
[-1:44.00]and gave a description of the killer's second attack.
[-1:45.00]Why hadn't he called the police at the time?
[-1:46.00]"I was tired," he said without emotion.
[-1:47.00]" I went back to bed."
[-1:48.00]24  It was 4:25 AM when the ambulance arrived to take the body of Miss Parry.
[-1:49.00]It drove off. "Then," a policeman said, "the people came out."