Crimes and Criminals
Often young people's friends encourage them to steal from shops. It seems like a game, but ___________ is a crime, and ___________ can receive large fines.
shoplifting/ shoplifters
The police S____________ the house for clues.
searched
The food was disappointing: overpriced and __________ (taste).
tasteless
'Tell me everything you know about the suspect,' Inspector Morris said to her.
Inspector Morris ordered her ...
Inspector Morris ordered her to tell him everything she knew about the suspect.
The criminal chose the most ___________ (economy) way to travel - by bus.
economical
Someone attacked a woman and stole her handbag. She did not see the face of the __________. There have been a lot of similar _____________ in the area.
mugger/ muggings
As soon as a neighbour reported the murder, the police launched an I_________________ .
investigation
The witness said the suspect had ______________ (brown) eyes: a mixture of brown and green.
brownish
'There is something in this flat we are not seeing,' the detective said to his partner.
The detective ...
The detective said to his partner that there was something in that flat they were not seeing.
Two detectives have arrested a S_____________, a man who has committed many crimes before.
suspect
___________ broke into five shops last night. They took money and goods. Someone had ____________ two of the shops before.
Burglars/ burgled
There are cameras in the area so the police have C____________ to study.
CCTV footage
The police are pleased when burglars are __________ (care) and leave fingerprints behind.
careless
'Is this your phone?' the man asked her.
The man ...
The man asked her if that was her phone.
CORRECT THE MISTAKE:
'I'm not saying any more,' she told us.
She said us she wasn't saying any more.
She said TO us she wasn't saying any more.
Someone set fire to an empty building early this morning. Police said it was ________ and that they haven't caught the ___________ yet.
arson/ arsonist
A witness came forward and identified the C______________ from a photograph.
culprit
They noticed the contrast between the ______________ (peace) setting and the terrible crime.
peaceful
'The train has been late every morning this week,' the girl told us.
The girl told ...
The girl told us that the train had been late every morning that week.
'I won't tell you where my son was yesterday,' the woman said to the detective.
The woman refused ...
The woman refused to say where her son had been the day before.
After a flood caused damage, ___________ took food and tools from several buildings. All of the suspects had received fines for ____________ before.
looters/ looting
The police chief was on the news appealing for W_______________ .
witnesses
The lawyer didn't want to use him as a witness because he wasn't very _____________ (rely) - his version of what happened kept changing.
reliable
'How many times did he come into the shop?' the detective asked.
The detective wondered ...
The detective wondered how many times he had come into the shop.
'I first realised that my car was missing last night,' the man told the officer.
The man ...
The man told the officer that he had first realised that his car was missing the night before.