Reading.: Read Jack The Ripper. Case Closed? and Answer These Questions

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English Course. B1 level.

READING.

In the autumn of 1888 a brutal murderer


walked the dark, foggy streets of London,
terrorizing the inhabitants of the city. The
victims were all women and the police seemed
powerless to stop the murders. Panic and fear
among Londoners was increased by a letter sent
by the murderer to Scotland Yard. In the letter
he made fun of the police’s attempts to catch
him and promised to kill again. It finished,
‘Yours truly, Jack the Ripper’. This was the first
of many letters sent to the police. The murders
continued—seven in total. But in November,
they suddenly stopped, three months after they
had first begun.
Read Jack the Ripper. Case closed? and Jack the Ripper was never caught and for more
answer these questions. than a century historians, writers, policemen,
and detectives have tried to discover and prove
1. Where and when did the murders take
his identity. Hundreds of articles and books
place? have been written and many films made about
the murders. But the question ‘Who was Jack
2. How did ‘Jack the Ripper’ get his name?
the Ripper?’ has remained unanswered. There
3. How many murders were there? have been plenty of suspects, including a
doctor, a businessman, a painter, and even a
4. How long did the murders go on for?
member of the royal family.
5. Who did the suspects include?
Three years ago the American crime writer
6. What does Patricia Cornwell usually do? Patricia Cornwell left aside her fictional
7. How she try to solve the mystery? detective, Kay Scarpetta, and tried to solve the
real-live murder mystery of Jack the Ripper.
After spending a considerable amount of time
and money on her investigation, and analyzing
DNA samples, Cornwell thinks she has proved
who Jack the Ripper really was…

One of the great unsolved murder


mysteries of all time is that of ‘Jack the
Ripper’.

New English File. Intermediate Student’s book. Oxford University Press. Page 1.

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