People accused of more serious crimes are tried in open court by a judge and _______.

A moment's drilling by the dentist may make us nervous and upset.Many of us cannot stand pain.To avoid the pain of a drilling that may last perhaps a minute or two, we demand the “needle”-a shot of Novocain (奴佛卡因) - that deadens the nerves around the tooth.

Now it's true that the human body has developed its millions of nerves to be highly aware of what goes on both inside and outside of it.This helps us adjust to the world.Without our nerves and our brain, which is a bundle of nerves, we wouldn't know what's happening.But we pay for our sensitivity.We can feel pain when the slightest thing is wrong with any part of our body.The history of torture is based on the human body being open to pain.

But there is a way to handle pain.Look at the Indian fakir (苦行僧) who sits on a bed of nails.Fakirs can put a needle right through an arm, and feel no pain.This ability that some humans have developed to handle pain should give us ideas about how the mind can deal with pain.

The big thing in withstanding pain is our attitude towards it.If the dentist says, “This will hurt a little,” it helps us to accept the pain.By staying relaxed, and by treating the pain as an interesting sensation we can handle the pain without falling apart.After all, although pain is an unpleasant sensation, it is still a sensation, and sensations are the stuff of life.

26.The passage is mainly about().

A.how to suffer pain

B.how to avoid pain

C.how to handle pain

D.how to stop pain

27.Th e sentence “But we pay for our sensitivity.” in the second paragraph implies that ()

A.we should pay a debt for our feeling

B.we have to be hurt when we feel something

C.our pain is worth feeling

D.when we feel pain, we are suffering it

28.When the author mentions the Indian fakir, he suggests that().

A.Indians are not at all afraid of pain

B.people may be senseless of pain

C.some people are able to handle pain

D.fakirs have magic to put needles right through their arms

29.The most important thing to handle pain is ()

A.how we look at pain

B.to feel pain as much as possible

C.to show an interest in pain

D.to accept the pain reluctantly

30.The author's attitude towards pain is().

A.pessimistic

B.optimistic

C.radical

D.practical

Before the child died, her parents were arrested on abuse charges, but now they could face more serious charges. Officials said yesterday that a grand jury would begin this week to weigh charges against her parents in the death.

The girl's mother initially told detectives that the child was not hers and that she had recently been smuggled into the United States from Mexico, where she suffered the injuries, the police said. But the mother has since admitted that she withheld food from the girl, Edith Gonzalez, as punishment, a senior law enforcement official said.

The woman, who also gave the police a false name and address when she was arrested late Monday, was arraigned yesterday on charges of endangering the welfare of a child, a felony, and reckless endangerment, a misdemeanor. Her boyfriend, the child's father, was arrested late Tuesday and arraigned yesterday on the same charges. Both pleaded not guilty and were held without bail.

At the two arraignments yesterday, in Brooklyn Criminal Court, and in interviews with investigators and neighbors, a picture began to emerge of a household where abuse of the little girl seemed more the rule rather than the exception.

Punishment, as the child's mother and father put it in statements to the police and prosecutors, was not limited to withholding food and beatings— he said he beat her with his fists, a belt and a cable and that the child's mother struck the three-year-old with a cable, according to court papers and the law enforcement official. The mother also admitted that she sometimes plunged the child into a tub filled with ice water, the official said.

The mother, now identified as Tania Cabrera, 23, first told the police that her name was Patricia Aguirre and that she was 25 years old.

Ms. Cabrera, in her statements to the police and prosecutors, detailed instances of abuse in the home that the couple share on George Street in Bushwick, Brooklyn, with their daughter and Ms. Cabrera's five-year-old boy with another man, the official said. She said her boyfriend, Edison Gonzalez, 19, favored Edith over the boy, Javier, prompting arguments, and Ms. Cabrera said she eventually took out her frustration on the girl, the official said. Ms. Cabrera also said Mr. Gonzalez would drink and become abusive.

It remained unclear yesterday exactly how the little girl suffered the skull fracture and cerebral bruising that were among her most serious injuries, but the criminal complaints charging Ms. Cabrera said that the child had seizures on both Sunday and Monday, and that on the second day, the child fell from a chair, striking her head.

An autopsy to determine the cause of death, which will in some measure determine whether more serious charges are brought, will be performed today, officials said.

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True or false Write T or F. In serious crimes, the judge decides whetherthe accused is guilty or not. F 1 The prosecution defends the accused. ____ 2 The defendant is sentenced by the judge. ____ 3 If the jury decides the defendant isinnocent, he may go to prison. ____ 4 With serious crimes, the jury decides whatthe sentence will be. ____ 5 The defence aims to prove that the accuseddid not commit the crime. ____ 6 If the accused is guilty, he may get afine. ____ 7 The judge has to prove whether thedefendant is guilty or not. ____ 8 Trials take place in a court. ____