| 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. leaving documents showing one’s home address in the car B. locking one’s car in a parking lot at any time C. not leaving the car unattended for longer than necessary D. not leaving a sunroof or window partially open [填空题]A
What is to happen about transport Evidently there are huge and important changes in prospect. A decade or so from now, there will have been yet another transformation in the way in which people and their goods are moved from place to place. Old techniques are being faced with attenuation or even extinction, sometimes because better methods of traveling have come along but sometimes simply because the old methods have become intolerable. B The development of recent decades most obviously likely to be continued is the tendency for alternative methods of traveling to coexist, and so to offer potential travelers a choice. Within large cities, underground transport is usually an alternative to several ways of traveling on the surface. Roads, railways and airlines are in competition, and there are still people who cross the North Atlantic by sea. (Most freight goes that way, of course.) C Oil tankers could decisively affect the pattern of petroleum dis 我来回答: 提交
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