2014年大学英语四级改错练习13

　　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