[单项选择]Why crime has risen so much further and faster in Britain than in any other rich country over the past half-century is anybody’’s guess. Maybe it’’s the result of near-American levels of relative poverty and family breakdown combined with a European reluctance to bang up quite such a large proportion of the population as America does. Anyway, the long-term causes are of less immediate interest to the government than a short-term solution. Popular concern about crime is rising:23% of people rated it as one of the most important issues for the govenment at the beginning of this year;34% do now. 　　An official report concluding that the criminal justice system is failing has added to the government’’s problems. The Audit (审计) Commission, the government’’s watchdog, says that the police too often charge suspects with the wrong offences, use inaccurate computerized information and face serious inefficiencies in the forensic science (the use of scientific methods by the police) service. Cour
A. anybody can make a guess at it.
B. everybody can have his/her idea
C. nobody can know it for certain
D. anyone can work it out by guess

[单项选择]Why crime has risen so much further and faster in Britain than in any other rich country over the past half-century is anybody’’s guess. Maybe it’’s the result of near-American levels of relative poverty and family breakdown combined with a European reluctance to bang up quite such a large proportion of the population as America does. Anyway, the long-term causes are of less immediate interest to the government than a short-term solution. Popular concern about crime is rising:23% of people rated it as one of the most important issues for the govenment at the beginning of this year;34% do now. 　　An official report concluding that the criminal justice system is failing has added to the government’’s problems. The Audit (审计) Commission, the government’’s watchdog, says that the police too often charge suspects with the wrong offences, use inaccurate computerized information and face serious inefficiencies in the forensic science (the use of scientific methods by the police) service. Cour
A. the British poverty has exceeded that of the U. S.
B. the U. S. divorce rate is less fearful than that of Britain.
C. the British population is mostly protected by government.
D. the number of criminals imprisoned in the U. S. is great.

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Crime has its own cycles, a magazine reported some years age. Police records that were studied for five years from over 2,400 cities and towns 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. Murder reaches its high during July and August, as do rape and other violent attacks. Murder, moreover, is more than seasonal: it is a weekend crime. (46) .
Unlike the summer high in crimes of bodily harm, burglary has a different cycle. You are most likely to be robbed between 6 p.m. and 2 a.m. on a Saturday night in December, January or February. The most uncriminal month of all (47) . More dog bites are reported in this month than in any other month of the year.
(48) . Professor Huntington, of the Foundation for the Study of Cycles, made extensive studies to discover the seaso

[单项选择]Why has the flight been delayed
A. because of weather
B. because of technical reasons
C. because of one passenger’s absence

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Why has the meeting been postponed
A. (A) The accountant is ill.
B. (B) The room is not ready.
C. (C) Ms. Schmidt is away at a conference.
D. (D) The speaker is still reading the budget report.

[单项选择]Why has Don been missing work
A. He has been job hunting.
B. He has not been feeling well.
C. His daughter has been sick.
D. His specialist changed locations.

[简答题]People often wonder why they have spend so much money at the supermarket, and often on things they didn’t intend to buy in the first place. A recent survey indicates that 75% of all grocery shoppers make at least one impulse buying. They may be attracted by eye-catching display, or colorful package. For those shoppers, there is a simple way of avoiding impulse buying, and saving money on groceries. That is, they should make a shopping list beforehand, and stick to it.

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People often wonder why historians go to so much trouble to preserve millions of books, documents and records of the past. Why do we have libraries What (1) are these documents and the (2) books Why do we (3) and save the actions of men, the negotiations of statesmen and the (4) of armies
Because, sometimes, the voice of experience can (5) us to stop, look and listen. And because, sometimes, past records, (6) interpreted, can give us (7) of what to do and what not to do.
If we are to create (8) peace forever, we must seek (9) origins in human experience and in the record of human (10) . From the story of the endurance, courage and (11) of men and women, we create the inspiration of youth. From stories of the Christian men, right down to Budapest’s heroic men of today, history records the suffering, the self-denial, the loyalty and the heroic (12) of men. Surely from these re
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