The law is great mass of rules, showing when and how far a man is【B1】to be punished, or to

be made to【B2】over money or property to his neighbors, and【B3】. These rules are【B4】in books. A lawyer learns them in the main【B5】reading books.

He begins by doing little【B6】than read, and after he has prepared himself【B7】, say, three years' study to practise,【B8】, all his life long and almost every day, he【B9】into books to read a little more than he already knows about【B10】new question which he has to answer.

The【B11】to use books, then, is a talent which the would-be lawyer ought to possess. He ought to have enough flexibility and【B12】of mental fibre to make it easy for him to collect ideas from【B13】words. He ought to have some【B14】in finding what a book contains, and something of an instinct for【B15】to look for what he wants.

But【B16】this is the power of which he will first feel the need, it is not the most important. A lawyer does not study law【B17】it; he studies it to use it and【B18】the rules which he【B19】in real life. His business is to try eases in court and to advise men what to do in order to keep out or get out of【B20】. He studies his books in order to advise and to try his cases in the right way.

【B1】

A．probable

B．possible

C．liable

D．inclined