For more than 10 years there has been a
bigger rise in car crime than in most other types of crime. An average of more
than two cars a minute are broken into, vandalized (破坏) or stolen in the UK. Car
crime accounts for almost a third of all reported offences with no signs that
the trend is slowing down. Although there are highly professional criminals involved in car theft, almost 90 percent of car crime is committed by the opportunist. Amateur thieves are aided by our carelessness. When the Automobile Association (AA) engineers surveyed one town centre car park last year, 10 percent of cars checked were unlocked, a figure backed up by a Home Office national survey that found 12 percent of drivers sometimes left their cars unlocked. The vehicles are sitting in petrol stations while drivers pay for their fuel. The AA has dis A. is preferable for safe parking B. is now a common practice C. takes longer than necessary D. aids a car thief in a way [填空题]For more than five thousand years Chinese doctors have used needles to fight illness. This kind of medicine is called acupuncture. The doctor studies the sick person carefully. Then he puts needles into that person’s body at the right places for his illness. Chinese doctors believe that they can control the body’s natural forces in this way. At first, doctors in the West thought that this was just another kind of magic. Recently, however, they have found out that it is possible to cure many illnesses like this because the needles help the body to produce its own "medicines". In this way the body cures itself.
Nowadays doctors can do a lot of wonderful things. They can use thousands of medicines. They can give you pills and injections. They can even give you mechanical legs or a new heart. Sometimes modem medicine works like magic. But there are still a lot of illnesses that drags and machines cannot cure completely. Medicine is not only a science; it is an art, too. And in the art [单项选择]
When I arrived in Beijing more than five years ago, I had already given blood 79 times. I wanted to continue to be a donor (献血者). But entering a Red Cross clinic (诊所) in Beijing, I was surprised to be received as a hero. For me, a blood donation was simply a good habit and gift of love to humans. [单项选择]A. over past 50 years
B. for more than four decades
C. by more than 50 percent
D. for home energy use
E. as a raw material
F. beneath the earth’s surface
Natural gas is recognized as the most economical energy source
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