英语四级改错精练(2)

　　Crime has its own cycles, a magazine reported
　some years before. Police records that were studied 1.__________
　for five years from over 2400 cities and towns show
　a surprised link between changes in the season and 2.__________
　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 does rape and other violent 3.__________
　attacks.Murder, however, is more than seasonal: it is a 4.__________
　weekend crime. It is also a hightime crime: 62 percent
　of members are committed between 6 p.m. and 6 a.m.

　Unlike the summer high in crimes of bodily harm,
　burglary has a different cycle. You are most likely
　to being robbed between 6 p.m. and 2 a.m. on a Saturday 5.__________
　night in December, January,or February. The most
　uncriminal month of all? May--except for one strange
　statistic. More dog bites are reported in this month
　than in an other month of the year. 6.__________

　Apparent our intellectual seasonal cycles are 7.__________
　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 to propose the most changes to patents. In all 8.__________
　instances, he found a spring peak and an autumn peak
　separated by a summer low. On other hand, Professor 9.__________
　huntinton's studies indicated that June is the peak
　month for suicides and admissions in mental hospitals. 10.__________
　June is also a peak month for marriages!

　参考答案　

　1. before → ago
　2. surprised → surprising
　3. does → do
　4. however → moreover
　5. being → be
　6. an → any
　7. apparent → apparently
　8. to(1) → /
　9. On ∧ other → the
　10. in → to