Michele Langlois is a young Canadian who works for the police as a handwriting expert. She has helped catch many criminals (罪犯) by using her special skill.
When she was only fourteen, Michele was already so interested in the differences in her school friends’ handwriting that she would spend hours studying them. After finishing college she went to France for a special two-year class to learn how to analyze (分析) handwriting at the School of Police Science. On her return, she began her work for the Quebec police.
Michele says that it is impossible for people to disguise (伪装) their handwriting. She can discover most of what she needs to know simply by looking at the writing with her own eyes, but she also has machines that help her analyze different kinds of paper and ink. This knowledge is often of help to the police.
Michele also believes that handwriting is a good sign of the kind of person the writer is. "I wouldn’t go out with a fellow
A. Police Science
B. Friends of Police
C. Handwriting Reader
D. Art of Handwriting
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When young people who want to be journalists ask me what subject they should study after leaving school, I tell them: "Anything except journalism or media studies.’ Most veterans of my trade would say the same. It is practical advice. For obvious reasons, newspaper editors like to employ people who can bring something other than a knowledge of the media to the party that we call our work.
On The Daily Telegraph, for example, the editor of London Spy is a theologian by academic training. The obituaries editor is a philosopher. The editor of our student magazine, Juice, studied physics. As for myself, I read history, ancient and modern, at the taxpayer’s expense.
I am not sure what Charles Clarke, the Education Secretary, would make of all this. If I understand him correctly, he would think that the public money spent on teaching this huge range of disciplines to the staff of The Daily Telegraph was pretty much wasted. The only
A. The role of state-funded universities is to train students for a job.
B. Every academic subject will do good to society and the economy somehow.
C. Academic research and intelligent ideas are more important than "ornaments".
D. Money and usefulness are the criteria to judge the worth of a disciplin
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