Question

  JACKSONVILIE, Fla, Nov.10—A 14-year –old boy was arrested today after the rotten body of an 8-year-old girl who was his neighbor was found in his bedroom. She had been stabbed (刺傷) and beaten.

   The boy, Joshua Earl Patrick Philips, admitted and was charged with murder in the death of the girl, Maddie Clifton, who disappeared on Nov. 3, Sherriff Nat Glover said.

   Joshua, who has no criminal record, would not be eligible (合格的) for the death punishment because of his age. Detectives discovered a knife and a baseball bat believed to be the weapons (武器) used to kill the girl, Sherriff said.

   The girl had been stabbed at least nine times and was struck in the head. Sheriff Glover said at the conference. The authorities did not say whether she had been attacked sexually, nor did they give motive for the attack.

   The boy’s mother , Melissa Phillips , grew suspicious for the police searched her home on Monday and detected an odor (氣味) , Sherriff said. This morning she pulled aside the frame of the bed , saw a child’s feet and called an officer, she said.

   Maddie’s body was found under a sheet of wood supporting the frame of the water bed , which was filled, Sheriff Glover said , adding , “ He put her under the bed and tapped her up in it..”

   Investigators believe the third-grader was killed in the boy’s house shortly after she disappeared last Tuesday, touching off a wide-spread search.

   On Friday, Maddie’s parents , Steve and Shelia Clifton, made an earnest request for her return.

   The boy’s house, like others in the neighborhood, had been searched three times. During the third search on Monday, the mother has at first said she thought the odor came from family pets.

   Hundreds of volunteers had sent thousands of leaflets with Naddie’s picture since she disappeared that evening, about 30 minutes after she went out to play with friends.

   The girl’s house is one of the well-kept, single –family homes in the older working-class of Jacksonville. Yellow ribbons (絲帶) still hung from the trees this morning.

81. Why can’t the boy be sentenced to death? ( no more than 6 words)

82. What might the boy have used to kill the girl?  ( no more than 8 words)

83. Which grade of school was the girl in when she was killed ? ( no more than 2 words)

84. Who first found the body of the dead girl? ( no more than 6 words)

Answer 1

81. Because he is too young.

82. A knife and a baseball bat .

83. Grade 3/ three.

84. The boy’s mother.