英语听力精选进阶版 7219

Background: 以几个小时的劳动来换取一点自由应该是很小的代价。可是意大利最臭名昭著的犯人之一，黑寡妇，却断然拒绝了法庭提出的假释条件。她在1998年因谋杀罪被判29年。

Patrizia Reggiani once said she'd rather cry in a Rolls (Royce) than be happy on a bicycle. She doesn't seem to have changed her mind.

Dubbed¹ the Black Widow after she was jailed for ordering the murder of her ex-husband, the heir to the Gucci family fortune, Ms Reggiani has spent most of the past 13 years at San Vittore prison in Milan.

Judges had offered her the chance of day release, if she agreed to take a job outside the prison walls. But Ms Reggiani, who's 63, was having none of it. She'd never worked in her life, she told the judges, and she didn't intend to start now.

Her trial in 1998 attracted worldwide interest. It had everything: a woman betrayed by the man she'd loved and the low-life murder of the heir to a multi-million dollar fashion fortune.

For now, though, Patrizia Reggiani, who once complained that her allowance of more than US$630,000 a year wasn't enough to live on, will return to the comfort of her pet ferret and her plants in her cell at San Vittore.

Glossary² 词汇表

she'd rather 她宁愿 

to be dubbed 被称为 

day release 假释 

to have none of it 决不妥协 

to intend 准备 

to be betrayed by 被某人背弃 

low-life 道德低下的 

to complain 抱怨 

an allowance 津贴 

a ferret 白鼬

Questions:

1. Why was Patrizia Reggiani jailed? 

For ordering the murder of her ex-husband.

2. What was Reggiani’s explanation for her refusal to accept the judges’ offer? 

She said that she had never worked in her life and didn't want to start now.

3. Why did her trial attract so much interest? 

Because her husband was an heir to the Gucci family fortune.

4. True or false? In the past, Reggiani was happy receiving US$630,000 a year. 

False. According to the report, she complained that it was not enough to live on.

1 dubbed   

v.给…起绰号( dub的过去式和过去分词 )；把…称为；配音；复制

参考例句：

• Mathematics was once dubbed the handmaiden of the sciences. 数学曾一度被视为各门科学的基础。
• Is the movie dubbed or does it have subtitles? 这部电影是配音的还是打字幕的？ 来自《简明英汉词典》

2 glossary   

n.注释词表；术语汇编

参考例句：

• The text is supplemented by an adequate glossary.正文附有一个详细的词汇表。
• For convenience,we have also provided a glossary in an appendix.为了方便，我们在附录中也提供了术语表。