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Crime is not random. but exhibits certain regularities. It occurs more frequently at certain times,in certain groups, at certain places. and under certain conditions. That is to say, crime has its own cycles, a magazine reported some years ago. Police records that were studied for five years from over 2,400 cities and towns correspondingly show a surprising link between changes in the season and crime patterns.
The pattern of crime has varied very little over a long period of years. For particular types of crime, e.g. murder or robbery,variation occurs by season,day, and time of occurrence. Generally speaking, murder ismore likely to occur during the late spring and summer, peaking in July and August, as are rape and other violent attacks. Moreover, murder, 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.
Unlike the summer high in crimes of bodily harm, burglary has a different cycle. It is reported that robbery occurs more frequently in the cold winter months reaching its peak during the holiday season. That's why you are most likely to be robbed becween 6 p.m. and 2 a.m. on a Saturday night in December, January, or February. What is the most uncriminal month of a11? May-ex-cept for one strange statistic. More dog bites are reported in this month than in any other month of the year.
Apparently our intellectual seasonal cycles are completely different from our criminal tendencies. Professor Huntington, of the Foundation for the Study of Cycles, made extensive studies to discover the seasons when people read serious books, attend scientific meetings, make the highest scores on examinations, and propose the most changes to patents. In all instances, he found a spring peak and an autumn peak separated by a summer low. On the other hand, Professor Huntington's studies indicated that June is the peak month for suicides and admissions to mental hospitals. June is also a peak month for marriages!
Possibly soaring thermometers and high humidity bring on our strange and terrifying summer actions, but police officials are not sure. "There is,of course, no proof of a connection between hurnidity and murder."they say. "Why murder's high time should come in the summertime we really don't know."
1.A surprising link between changes in the season and crime patterns implies that__________________.
2.According to the passage, murder occurs most frequently in the months of_____________________.
3.According to the passage, a winter midnight is most probably the time for_____________________________.
4.What unusual thing is found in May?
5.What are our intellectual seasonal cycles according to Professor Huntingcon?
答案：
1.[crime has its own eycles/crime exhibits some regularities]
[定位]根據(jù)link between changes in the season and crime patterns定位于第1段。
解析：本題實(shí)質(zhì)上是問(wèn)文章的主題。原文第1句是主題句，隨后的第3句用That is to say引出另一種方式來(lái)點(diǎn)明主題，故答案可以從這兩句得出。
2.[July and August]
[定位]根據(jù)murder定位于第2段。
解析：第2段第3句中的peaking與題目中的most frequently表意一致，因此答案為peaking之后的兩個(gè)月份。
3.[burglary/robbery]
[定位]根據(jù)winter midnight鎖定第3段第3句。
解析：第3段第3句中的December, January， or February正是題干中的winter;且題干中midnight是該句中的between 6p.m.and 2 a.m.的一個(gè)時(shí)間點(diǎn)。題干中的most probably也對(duì)應(yīng)該句中的most likely，故可推斷答題關(guān)鍵在于該句中的be robbed，而由題干中的for可知此空需填入名詞，與for -起構(gòu)成介賓短語(yǔ)，故答案為rob的名詞形式robbery。此外，第3段第1句中的burglary為robbery的同義詞，在該段中作為同一種犯罪行為而被提及，故也可為答案。
4.[More dog bites occur in this month./There are more dog bites in May.]
[定位]根據(jù)May鎖定第3段最后兩句。
解析：第3段的倒數(shù)第2句提到5月份有一項(xiàng)奇怪的統(tǒng)計(jì)數(shù)據(jù)，題干中的unusual thing正對(duì)應(yīng)此句，而隨后的一句是對(duì)這一句的具體說(shuō)明，即本題的答案。
5.[Peaks in both spring and autumn separated by a summer low]
[定位]根據(jù)Professor Huntington鎖定第4段。
解析：解題的關(guān)鍵詞是第4段第3句中的in a1l instances，意為“所有的研究”，實(shí)指上文提到的關(guān)于intellectual seasonal cycles的所有研究，故可推斷下文提及的正是這些研究得出的總結(jié)，只需簡(jiǎn)單改寫即為本題答案。
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