Everyday Vocabulary: An arrest

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Everyday Vocabulary: An arrest

AN ARREST

A policeman was sent to __1__ the disappearance of some property from a hotel. When he arrived, he found that the hotel staff had caught a boy in one of the rooms with a camera and some cash. When the policeman tried to __2__ the boy, he became violent and the policeman had to __3__ him. At the police station the boy could not give a satisfactory explanation for his actions and the police decided to __4__ him with the __5__ of the camera and cash. They took his __6__ locked him in a __7__ and __8__ him overnight. The next morning he appeared in __9__ before the __10__. He took a(an) __11__ and __12__ not guilty. Two __13__, the owner of the property and a member of the hotel staff, gave __14__. After both sides of the case had been heard the boy was __15__ guilty. He had to pay a(an) __16__ of £50 and he was given a __17__ of three months in prison suspended for two years.

- A) arrest
- B) magistrate
- C) investigate
- D) detain
- A) arrest
- B) investigate
- C) charge
- D) save
- A) arrest
- B) plead
- C) handcuff
- D) detain
- A) arrest
- B) sentence
- C) detain
- D) charge
- A) thieving
- B) steal
- C) theft
- D) evidence
- A) fingerprints
- B) tiptoes
- C) handcuffs
- D) witnesses
- A) prison
- B) dungeon
- C) cell
- D) jail
- A) took
- B) charged
- C) handcuffed
- D) detained
- A) dungeon
- B) prison
- C) station
- D) court
- A) criminal
- B) magistrate
- C) lawyer
- D) prosecutor
- A) witness
- B) oath
- C) promise
- D) plead
- A) asked
- B) pleaded
- C) promised
- D) begged
- A) witnesses
- B) magistrates
- C) friends
- D) opponents
- A) criminal
- B) magistrate
- C) investigations
- D) evidence
- A) found
- B) sentenced
- C) celled
- D) charged
- A) fine
- B) oath
- C) sentence
- D) money
- A) word
- B) sentence
- C) fine
- D) charge

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