A man who served 11 years in prison after being wrongly convicted of murdering his wife was officially cleared yesterday, walking free from Jingshan County People's Court—the same body that sentenced him to a 15year jail term in 1998—as over 2000 local residents cheered.
“Police and other law enforcers made the errors,”39yearold She Xianglin told China Daily, “I believe the law will punish them and give me a just result.”
The original conviction came based on a confession which She said was extracted under police torture and the misidentification of a still-unknown woman's body.
“The provincial Hubei government has sent a team of police, procurators and high people's court officials to investigate the case,” a spokesperson for the Jingmen government, which administrates Jingshan County, said yesterday.
The miscarriage of justice only came to light when Shen's wife, Zhang Zaiyu, resurfaced late last month after being thought missing for 11 years.
This was despite at least five letters from Zhang to her brother over the last two years, which he said he didn't report to police because he thought they were a hoax.
Zhang disappeared in January 1994 from Yanmenkou Township, and 3 months later a body was found in a pond that her relatives positively identified.
Local police arrested Shen for murder in April 1994,although questions had been raised about discrepancies between the features and clothes of the body and Zhang. Confirmation through DNA testing had not been attempted.
Zhang Chengmao, Shen's lawyer, said yesterday he would seek State pensation “but we have not reached a figure yet”.
When asked about pensation, Shen said, “My mother, who died from the stress of continually appealing, cannot be bought. Eleven years of freedom cannot be bought. Schooling of my daughter that was stopped because of poverty cannot be bought.”
As for his wife, the man said he did not hate her at all. “If she had not reappeared, maybe I would have been wronged for life,” he said.
He also said he did not plan to sue Zhang for bigamy, though she had remarried in Shandong Province without divorcing him.
【小题1】Why did She Xianglin served 11 years in prison?A．Because She Xianglin was convicted of murdering his wife.B．Because the Police and other law enforcers made the errors.C．Because through DNA testing the dead woman was his wife.D．Because her wife was missing.【小题2】Which of the following is NOT true?A．The miscarriage of justice only came to light when Shen's wife reappeared.B．The man said he did not hate her at all.C．Zhang Zaiyu wrote at least five letters to her brother over the last two years to hoax him.D．She Xianglin's mother died from the stress of continually appealing.【小题3】We can infer from the passage .A．She Xianglin will get State pensationB．She Xianglin's daughter dropped out of school because of povertyC．She Xianglin stayed in prison for 11 yearsD．who murdered the woman is known to all【小题4】The underlined word “cleared” in the first paragraph means .A．清除B．宣告无罪C．（天气）变晴D．移走物体B
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(答案→)B
解析：
【小题1】细节理解题。A项错误，根据第一段第一句中“after being wrongly convicted of murdering his wife”可知B项正确，根据第二段第一句知佘向林是由于公安机关和法律部门的过失才导致被监禁11年。C项错误，第八段最后一句说明，没有进行DNA检测。D项错误，妻子的失踪和佘向林被监禁没有直接关系。此项迷惑性较强。
【小题2】细节理解题。A项是事实。根据第五段内容可知，妻子的重新出现才使误判真相大白。B项是事实。由倒数第三段中“My mother, who died from the stress of continually appealing, cannot be bought.”一句可知D项是事实。由第六段内容可知C项错误。
【小题3】推理判断题。佘向林的律师说要政府给予赔偿，通过分析全文可知佘向林无罪，因此我们推测他会得到政府赔偿。B、C两个选项是客观事实，不是推测。D项错误，文章没有说明是谁谋杀了那位女士。
【小题4】 词义推断题。通过下面一句“...walking free from Jingshan County People's Court—the same...”可知“宣告无罪”。