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True or False (判断下列句子是否符合短文内容)
Jenkins
was a jewler, a master craftsman (工匠) in the Silkstone Jewellery company. Ten years ago, he made a large
diamond ring for the company. It was worth ＄2,000. The
second ring looked exactly like the first one. Jenkins knew it would pass all
the usual tests—except one possibility. Jenkins gave
the much more valuable ring to his wife on her fortieth birthday, and the
couple flew to Paris for a weekend. Later, the company sold the ring for ＄6,000.
Six months
ago the buyer brought it back to Silkstone's head office. "It's a faulty
diamond," he said. "It isn't worth the high price I paid."
He
explained the facts. His wife's car had caught fire in an accident. She
escaped, but the ring had come off her finger. It had fallen to the ground and
been damaged in the great heat of the burning petrol.
The
company had to agree. They knew that no fire on earth can ever damage a perfect
diamond. Someone had taken the real diamond and put a faulty stone in its
place. The question was: who?
A picture
of the ring appeared in the newspaper. A professional photographer recognized
the ring. The next day there was another picture in the paper: it showed a
famous actress walking out to a plane for Paris. Behind the actress there was a
woman wearing a large diamond ring. "Do you know the woman with the lovely
diamond ring?" the papers asked the readers.
At his trial (审讯), Jenkins asked the judge to consider eighty-one
similar crimes against the Silkstone
Jewellery company.
The judge
said, "You are a master craftsman who turned bad. I feel rather sorry. But
I must send you to prison for seven years."
