Assistant：Can I help you？ Colin ：Yes，it’s about this sports shirt．I washed it the other day．The colour ran and it shrank． Assistant：Oh dear，I see．________________________ Colin ：I’m afraid not． Assistant：I’m sorry，but I’m not allowed to change anything without a receipt．

单项选择题In his official report，Detective Sergeant M.Walters of the Notting Hill police said the national press had been wrong to portray the“widespread series of street disturbances”as“racial”riots：“Whereas there certainly was some _____ feeling between white and colored residents in this area，it is abundantly clear much of the trouble was caused by ruffians，both colored and white，who seized on this opportunity to indulge in hooliganism ．”

单项选择题While those dealt with by the courts were overwhelmingly white ，the large number of black people also arrested and the official _____ there had not been a racial motive ensured a legacy of black mistrust of the Metropolitan police that has never really been eradicated．

单项选择题Senior Metropolitan police officers tried to dismiss the Noting Hill race riots which raged for five nights over the August bank holiday in 1958 as the work of“ruffians ，both colored and white”hell-bent on hooliganism ，according to _____ official files．

单项选择题Thomas Williams was stopped by the police as he came out of Bluey’s Club on Talbot Road，Noting Hill．He _____a piece of iron down his left trouser leg，a petrol bomb in his right pocket and a razor blade in his inside breast pocket：“I have to protect myself，”he told the arresting officer．

单项选择题A．At two o’clock． B．At four o’clock． C．At three thirty． D．At eight o’clock．