Car thefts account for a quarter of all recorded crime. Toge..

第1题

Car thefts account for a quarter of all recorded crime. Together they impose costs on ever

yone-the costs of the police time taken up in dealing with the offenses, the cost of taking offenders through the criminal justice system, and the cost to motorists of increased insurance premiums.

Over 460, 000 cars are reported missing in this country each year and many of these are never recovered. Many of these which are found have been damaged by the thieves. A stolen car is also far more likely to be involved in an accident than the same car driven by its owner; car thieves are often young and sometimes drunk. Yet car crime can be cut drastically if motorists follow a few simple rules to keep thieves out of their in the fast place.

Most car thieves are opportunist unskilled petty criminals; many are under So, make your own car a less inviting target, to discourage thieves from trying.

The main message of the pamphlet is to ______

A．provide car owners with car theft statistics.

B．give details about costs in crime prevention.

C．portray the profile of certain car thieves.

D．raise car owners' awareness against car theft.

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第2题

STRUGGLING TO END CRIME "YOUTHS Claim Boredom Is Main Cause of Juvenile Crime, declared a

STRUGGLING TO END CRIME

"YOUTHS Claim Boredom Is Main Cause of Juvenile Crime, declared a headline in a leading British newspaper. "Home Strife Blamed for Rising Crime," said another. And a third stated: "Addictions 'Prompt Thousands of Crimes. '" The magazine Philippine Panorama estimated that 75 percent of all violent crimes in Manila were committed by drug abusers.

Other factors may also contribute to sparking criminal behavior. "Poverty in juxtaposition to great wealth" is one that was referred to by the Nigerian inspector-general of police. Peer pressure and poor job prospects, the absence of strong legal deterrents, the general breakdown in family values, the lack of respect for authority and law, and the excessive violence in films and videos are also cited.

Another factor is that many people no longer believe that crime does not pay. A sociologist at Bologna University in Italy observed that over a period of many years, the number of thefts reported and the number of persons convicted for them have followed opposite trends. ” He noted that "the number of convictions in proportion to the total number of reported thefts has plummeted from 50 to 0.7 percent. "

Sad but true are the words of The New Encyclopaedia Britannica: "Increasing crime appears to be a feature of all modern industrialized societies, and no developments in law, or penology can be shown to have had a significant impact on the problem ... For modern urbanized society, in which economic growth and personal success are dominant values, there is no reason to suppose that crime rates will not continue to increase."

IS THIS VIEW TOO NEGATIVE？

Is the situation really all that bad？ Do not some localities report crime, decreases？ True, some do, but statistics can be misleading. For example, it was repotted that crime in the Philippines decreased by 20 percent after a gun ban was introduced. But Asiaweek explained that one official believes that car thieves and bank robbers had stopped stealing cars and robbing banks and had "switched to kidnapping." Fewer bank robberies and car thefts caused a drop in total cases of crime, but this decrease lost much of its significance in view of the fourfold increase in kidnappings !

Reporting on Hungary, the magazine BVG wrote: "Compared with the first half of 1993,

crime figures are down by 6.2 percent. What the police forgot to mention.is that the decrease ... is mainly due to administrative changes." The monetary level at which cases of theft, fraud, or vandalism were previously registered was raised by 250 percent. So property crimes involving values below this level are no longer registered. Since crimes involving property account for three fourths of all crime in the country, the decrease was hardly genuine.

Arriving at accurate crime figures is admittedly difficult. One reason is that many crimes — perhaps up to 90 percent in certain categories — go unreported. But arguing whether crime has decreased or increased is actually beside the point. People yearn for crime to be eliminated, not just reduced.

The number about reported thefts and convictions is used to illustrate that______.

A．thefts have decreased considerably

B．crime does not pay

C．crime rate has risen

D．legal deterrents are not strong

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第3题

Car thefts go smoothly because______.A．the police have got involved in themB．the stolen ca

Car thefts go smoothly because______.

A．the police have got involved in them

B．the stolen cars sell well in the world market

C．the thieves are familiar with the parking garages

D．they are promoted by some international cooperation

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第4题

听力原文：The recent increase in car stealing has alarmed the police, who are looking for w

听力原文： The recent increase in car stealing has alarmed the police, who are looking for what they now believe must be a well-organized gang of professional car thieves.

Most of the thefts have taken place in the rich residential areas round South-well Park, where last week alone, twenty-two car thefts were reported to the local police. Of course, only one has been found abandoned in Reeking-hill Palace road twenty miles away. The others have not been found yet, except for one which had been falsely reported missing. The owner later admitted that he had forgotten where he had parked it a few days before.

An interesting aspect of these thefts is that nearly all the missing vehicles have been taken from locked garages. The owners now admitted that they may have left the car doors unlocked, but only one owner was not certain whether he had locked the garage door. The police have therefore assumed that the gang find it easier to break into garages, where vehicles are often left unlocked at night, than into locked cars, parked on the road-side in day time or at night. They advise car owner to lock up their cars, even when they are kept in locked garages.

(30)

A．The increase in driving offences.

B．The increase ill professional gangs.

C．The increase in car stealing.

D．The increase in car owners.

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第5题

听力原文： The recent increase in car stealing has alarmed the police who are looking for w

hat they now believe must be a well-organized gang of professional car thieves. Most of the thefts have taken place in the rich residential areas round Southwell Park, where last week alone twenty-two car thefts were reported to the local police. Of these, only one has been found, abandoned in Rockinghill Palace Road twenty miles away. The others have still not been found except for one which had been falsely reported missing. The owner later admitted that he had forgotten where he had parked it a few days before. An interesting aspect of the thefts is that nearly all the missing vehicles had been taken from locked garages. The owners now admit that they may have left the car doors unlocked, but only one owner is not certain whether he has locked the garage door. The police therefore assumed that the gang found it easier to break into the garages where vehicles are often left unlocked at night and into locked cars parked on the roadside in daytime or at night. They advise car owners to lock up their cars even when they are kept in locked garages.

(22)

A．The increase in driving offences.

B．The increase in professional gangs.

C．The increase in car stealing.

D．The increase in car owners.

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第6题

听力原文：（29) The recent increase in car stealing has alarmed the police, who are looking

听力原文： (29) The recent increase in car stealing has alarmed the police, who are looking for what they now believe must be a well-organized gang of professional car thieves.

Most of the thefts have taken place in the rich residential areas round South-well Park, where last week alone, twenty-two car thefts were reported to the local police. Of course, (30)only one has been found abandoned in Rocking-hill Palace road twenty miles away. The others have not been found yet, except tot one which had been falsely reported missing. The owner later admitted that he had forgotten where he had parked it a few days before.

An interesting aspect of these thefts is that nearly all the missing vehicles have been taken from locked garages. The owners now admitted that they may have left the car doors unlocked, but only one owner was not certain whether he had locked the garage dour. The police have therefore assumed that the gang find it easier to break into garages, where vehicles are often left unlocked at night, than into locked cars, parked on the road-side in day time or at night. (31)They advise car owner to lock up their cars, even when they are kept in locked garages.

(30)

A．The increase in driving offences.

B．The increase in professional gangs.

C．The increase in car stealing.

D．The increase in car owners.

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第7题

New energy cars account for 20 percent of all the car sales by 2025.（)

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第8题

So far there is no way to _________ his account of the car crash.A．verifyB．rectifyC．amendD

So far there is no way to _________ his account of the car crash.

A．verify

B．rectify

C．amend

D．amplify

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第9题

Students buying a car should take into account ______.A．the interest of the loanB．insuranc

Students buying a car should take into account ______.

A．the interest of the loan

B．insurance costs

C．the age of the car

D．the family objections

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第10题

What does the woman want to do there？A．Open a checking accountB．Make a withdrawalC．Make a

What does the woman want to do there？

A．Open a checking account

B．Make a withdrawal

C．Make a deposit into her account

D．Sell her car

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