[单项选择]The thieves tried to break ______ and steal the paintings.
A. down
B. out
C. up
D. in

[单项选择]The thief tried to steal the lady's purse ______ by the police.


A. being captured
B. only to be captured
C. unfortunately captured
D. had just been captured

[单项选择]The police tried in vain to break up the protest crowds in front of the government building（）.
A. unskillfully
B. violently
C. ineffectively
D. eventually

[单项选择]How did the thieves withdraw money from banks

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Passage Two
There Student thieves look out. Students can easily get many research papers off the Internet. A new Web site could help teachers catch copiers.
Some students research and write their term papers. Others, however, just copy them off the Internet and turn them in as their work.
Two graduate students at the University of California at Berkeley have written a program to catch the students who copy. It compares a student’s paper with every other term paper on the Web.
A hundred million Web pages on the Internet are searched. The top 20 search engines are used for the search. This service can be found at www. plagiarism, com. They also have a local data base of term papers.
Teachers who sign up can send their students’ papers to the Web site. Within 24 hours they know if the student did the work.
Every sentence that was a word-for-word match with another sentence either found on the Internet or within our d
A. printing and looking carefully at hundreds of papers on the Internet
B. a search of many web pages and a comparison of words used
C. asking the student where they got the information in the paper
D. comparing all the papers which are turned in by the students

[单项选择]The thieves fled with the local police close on their ______.
A. backs
B. necks
C. toes
D. heels

[单项选择]The two thieves took it for granted that the whole ______ was out because it was silent in the whole house.


A. household
B. inherits
C. dwellers
D. inhabitants

[填空题]have a break

[单项选择]Finding the police's coming, all the thieves ran away ______ all directions.


A. on
B. in
C. from
D. to

[单项选择]The two thieves fled the town separately,（　）a bag.
A. each carrying
B. whose that watch is
C. whose watch is that
D. whose watch is

[单项选择]The advertisement says that most thieves______.
A. prefer stealing from offices
B. like causing a lot of damage
C. will break in anywhere they want to
D. are discouraged by good security arrangements