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雅思阅读：肖申克的救赎

　　In 1947, Andy Dufresne , a banker in Maine, was convicted of murdering his wife and her lover, a golf pro. He was sentenced to two life sentences, and sent to the notoriously harsh Shawshank Prison. Andy always claimed his innocence, but his cold and measured demeanor led many to doubt his word.

　　During the first night, the chief guard Byron Hadley , savagely beat up a newly arrived inmate because of his crying complaining. Meanwhile Andy kept to himself even though during the day Ellis Redding , also known as Red, had bet against others that Andy would have been the one to break down first. That beating led to the new inmates death.

　　About a month later, Andy approached Red, who was known to run contraband inside the walls of Shawshank. He asked if Red could find him a rock hammer, an instrument he claimed necessary for his hobby in rock collecting. Though other prisoners considered Andy a really cold fish, Red saw something in Andy, and liked him from the start. Red thought Andy intended to use the hammer to engineer his escape one day but when the tool arrived seeing how small it was, Red put aside the thought that Andy could ever use it to dig his way out of prison.

　　Over the first two years of doing time, Andy worked in the prison laundry. He ended up attracting attention from the Sisters, a group of prisoners who sexually assaulted other prisoners, and was raped on a regular basis.