“In Bogota, Colombia, there is said to be what amounts to a college for pickpockets,” says Det. Kenneth
Kleinlein, a pickpocket-prevention specialist with the New York City police special-fraud squad. The course of study
reportedly lasts some six to eight weeks at the “School of the Ten Bells,” named for its final exam. A mannequin,
dressed in a man’s vested suit, is said to hang by a wire from the ceiling. Stuffed in each of the suit’s ten pockets are
valuables, and attached to each pocket is a bell. The “students” must extract all the contents without jingling a bell. “If
they can do it, they ‘graduate’ and fan out to Boston, New York, and other big US cities,” says Kleinlein. Crime experts say that pickpockets focus on department stores, buses and railroad stations, sports stadiums,
parades—wherever there are crowds. Most work in teams, watching you to see where you put your wallet after a
transaction. Or in a crowd they may “fan” you, running feather-like fingers over your clothes until they locate your
wallet.
【題組】16 According to the passage, what should students do before graduating from the “School of the Ten Bells”?
(A) They have to stuff the suit’s pockets with valuables.
(B) They have to get things from the mannequin’s pockets without triggering the alarm.
(C) They have to dress up the mannequin with a vested suit.
(D) They have to ring the bells attached to the mannequin’s pockets ten times.
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