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After receiving a six-year prison sentence on July 31st, Sanjay Dutt, an Indian film star, begged for bail while he appealed against it. “Sir, I made a mistake,” he said. But the judge said no. Mr Dutt's crime—to have procured two guns from Muslim mobsters who were responsible for bomb attacks in Mumbai in 1993—was serious. Yet he urged Mr Dutt, 48, to return to the silver screen after serving his sentence. “Don't get perturbed,” he said. “You have many years to go and work, like the 'Mackenna's Gold' actor Gregory Peck.”

Thus ended one of the longest song-and-dances in India's criminal legal history. Mr Dutt was convicted last year, having already spent 16 months in jail. He was acquitted of direct involvement in the bombings, which killed 257 people. They were carried out in 1993 in revenge for the demolition of an ancient mosque in the Hindu holy city of Ayodhya by Hindu fanatics, and subsequent Hindu-Muslim rioting. Some 100 people have been found guilty of the bombing. They have all been sentenced in the past three months, including a dozen to death and 20 to life- imprisonment. But the alleged masterminds of the attacks are still at large. One of them, a Mumbai gangster called Dawood Ibrahim, is alleged by Indian officials to be linked to al-Qaeda and to be hiding in Pakistan.

Despite the bleak immediate outlook, Mr Dutt, who made his name playing tough-guy anti-heroes, is unlikely to find his career much damaged. The son of two of Bollywood's biggest stars, a Hindu-Muslim couple, he has garnered enormous sympathy for his suffering. Many Indians believe his claim that he wanted the guns to protect his family during the riots. Other Bollywood stars express support for Mr Dutt as passionately as their Hollywood peers worry about global warming.

Then again, Bollywood is rather shady. Gangsters and crooked politicians have long laundered ill-gotten money through film productions. Indeed Mr Dutt was investigated over money-laundering allegations in 2001. Other recent Bollywood stars to grace the courts include Monica Bedi, an actress convicted of dealing in fake passports. Her accomplice was another Mumbai gangster, Abu Salem, who delivered the guns to Mr Dutt, and is currently awaiting trial for his alleged part in the 1993 bombings.

An even bigger Bollywood star, Salman Khan, is appealing against two prison sentences of five years and one year for poaching respectively an endangered antelope and two gazelles. A Bollywood film about the case has been scheduled. Mr Khan has also had to battle a four-year-old charge that he recklessly drove his car over five people sleeping on a pavement in Mumbai, killing one of them.

Bollywood's biggest star, Amitabh Bachchan, also known as “the Big B”, is, in contrast, venerated. Where Mr Khan is vain and brash, he has a reputation for humility and Hindu piety. But even this has been imperilled of late by revelations that Mr Bachchan and his film-star son, Abhishek, bought valuable plots of land reserved for farmers. They registered themselves thus after being allotted farmland by a former government of the state of Uttar Pradesh, led by the Samajwadi party. Mr Bachchan is close to one of the party's leading lights, Amar Singh, a famed socialite. Mr Bachchan's wife, Jaya, an actress, is now also a Samajwadi politician.

1.The judge said no because _____.

[A] he believed Dutt was wronged and showed no sympathy.

[B] he did not think Dutt had committed a crime.

[C] he thought Dutt had committed a serious crime.

[D] he thought Gregory Peck was Dutt’s good example.

2. The comparison of Bollywood stars’ support for Dutt to Holleywood’s worries about global warming implies_____.

[A] Bollywood stars are more sympathetic than their Hollywood peers.

[B] Bollywood stars express their support in a modest way.

[C] Bollywood stars back up Dutt with strong support and full passion.

[D] Bollywood stars are also concerned with environmental issues.

3. The phrase “grace the courts” (Line 3, Paragraph 4) most probably means_____.

[A] present oneself in the courts

[B] appeal against the courts

[C] be sentenced by the courts

[D]show respect to the courts

4. Accroding to the passage, the following adjectives can be used to describe Mr. Khan except_____.

[A] venerated

[B] vain and brash

[C] reckless and mindless

[D] cruel

5. The best title of this passage can be _____.

[A] The Shady Bollywood

[B] Mr Dutt’s Legal History

[C] Shady Stars of Bollywood

[D] Bollywood or Bullywood

篇章剖析：

這篇文章主要介紹了Bollywood影星違反法律的一些個案。文章第一段、第二段介紹了影星Dutt先生的案件；第三段講述民眾對Dutt的寬容和支持；第三段開始轉向Bollywood其他影星犯罪的一些情況介紹，主要介紹了影星莫尼卡的個案；第四段介紹Khan的案件；第五段介紹Bachchan的案件。

詞匯注釋：

bail n. 保釋 procure v.獲得, 取得

at large　不受控制的；逍遙法外的； perturb v. 使非常煩惱；使不安，使憂慮

demolition n. n.破壞, 毀壞 poach v. 偷獵

garner v.儲存 anti-hero n.平凡的角色

accomplice n. n.同謀者, 幫兇 crooked adj. 不老實，無恥的；詐騙的

antelope n. 羚羊 gazelle n. 瞪羚

peer n. 同輩, 同等的人 socialite n. 社交名流

venerate v. 崇敬　

難句突破：

(1) They were carried out in 1993 in revenge for the demolition of an ancient mosque in the Hindu holy city of Ayodhya by Hindu fanatics, and subsequent Hindu-Muslim rioting.

[主體句式] They were carried out …

[結構分析] 這是一個簡單句，具有比較復雜的狀語，有一個時間狀語，一個以in revenge for引導的目的狀語；在該目的狀語中，有兩個介詞賓語，the demolition 和rioting ；而在第一個賓語中，in the Hindu city of Ayodhya 和by Hindu fanatics都是用來修飾前面的the demolition的。

[句子譯文]這些爆炸事件發生于1993年，是為了報復印度教狂熱教徒毀壞了印度圣城Ayodhya一座古老的清真寺以及隨后的印度——穆斯林暴亂。

(2) They registered themselves thus after being allotted farmland by a former government of the state of Uttar Pradesh, led by the Samajwadi party.

[主體句式] They registered themselves…

[結構分析] 這是一個簡單句，句子的狀語比較復雜。該狀語是一個時間狀語，狀語最后的成份led by …是一個過去分詞短語，做前面the state of Utar Pradesh的定語。

[句子譯文] amajwadi領導的前Uttar Pradesh州政府分配給他們這些土地后，他們就進行了注冊。