大學英語四級考試--閱讀理解（1）

大學英語四級考試--閱讀理解（1）

Crime hasITs own cycles,a magazine reported some years ago.Police records that

were studIEd for five years from over 2,400citIEs and towns show a surprising link between changes in the seasons 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.It is also a nighttime crime:62 percent of murders 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 be robbed between 6 p.m. and 2 a.m. on a Saturday night in

December,January,or February.What is the most uncriminal month of all?May—except for one strange statistic.More dogbites are reported in this month than in any other month of the year.��
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