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〇課題文
　Cooper, Massachusetts, is one of the largest and poorest communities in the commonwealth, and I drove this warm May evening to one of its three police precinct stations. In the station’s lobby the hard orange plastic chairs were filled with residents―most didn’t speak English yet they were busily arguing with each other or with the suffering on-duty officer behand a thick glass window. When it was my turn I said, “Erica Kramer, I have an appointment to see Captain Miller.”
　The harried officer looked happy to confront an easy issue, and in a manner of minutes I was taken to the rear of the precinct station. C aptain Terrence Miller sat me down at his desk and passed over a clipboard with a sheet of paper.
　“Look that over, sign at the bottom, and you’ll be on your way,” he said. Miller looked to be one the upside of fifty, with an old-fashioned buzz cut and a scarlet face.
　The paper was a release form stating that one ERICA KRAMER was going to accompany OFFICER ROLAND PIPER as part of a civilian ride-along program, and that by signing, said release form, myself and my heirs promised never, ever to sue the city of Cooper if I was shot, knife, killed, mutilated, or dismembered.
（出典：Harlan Coben, Otto Penzler ed., ▼ The Best American Mystery Stories 2011. Mariner Books. 2011）

〇課題文
　Cooper, Massachusetts, is one of the largest and poorest communities in the commonwealth, and I drove this warm May evening to one of its three police precinct stations.

〇課題文
In the station’s lobby the hard orange plastic chairs were filled with residents―most didn’t speak English yet they were busily arguing with each other or with the suffering on-duty officer behand a thick glass window. When it was my turn I said, “Erica Kramer, I have an appointment to see Captain Miller.”