四级练习2013.04.02
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Crime has its own cycles, a magazine reported some years ago.(1)_______________________.The pattern of crime has changed very little over a long period of the years.Murder reaches its high during July and August,as do other violent attacks.Murder, in addition, is more than seasonal; it is a weekend crime.It is also a nighttime crime:62 percent of murders are committed between 6 p.m. and 6 a.m.on a Saturday night in December, January, or February.Except for on strange statistic,May is the least criminal month of all.(2)_______________________.Professor Huntington made a lot of studies to discover the seasons when people read serious books,attend scientific meetings,and make the highest scores on examinations.In all examples, he found a spring peak and an autumn peak separated by a summer low.(3)_______________________.June is also a peak month for marriages!Possibly, high temperature and humidity bring on our strange and surprising summer actions,but police officers are not sure.“There are, of course,no proof of a relation between humidity and murder”, they say.“Why murders high time should come in the summer time we really don't know”.
**** Hidden Message ***** Police recently show a surprise relation between change season and crime happens 1. Police records show a surprising relation between changes in the season and crime pattern.
2. Apparently our intellectual season cycles are completely different from our crime patterns.
3. On the other hand, professor Huntington studies show that June is the peak month for suicides and for leaving patients to mental hospital.
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