大学英语四级改错练习题及答案三

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Crime has its own cycles, a magazine reported
" m6 K8 h% f5 T( q% z9 wsome years before. Police records that were studied 1.__________
  x) N" ^" I9 T1 l! Z2 R# Wfor five years from over 2400 cities and towns show
* M+ {& ]  I# [a surprised link between changes in the season and 2.__________
% V3 Y2 j5 B4 W1 _  p# I; B: t" ]crime patterns.
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; }; n# W! |$ d3 F, RThe pattern of crime has varied very little
over a long period of years. Murder reaches its high
. {$ F% y4 b. C& Rduring July and August, as does rape and other violent 3.__________
attacks. Murder, however, is more than seasonal: it is a 4.__________
6 d* p! ?' a& ]2 x% Mweekend crime. It is also a nighttime crime: 62 percent
5 V( L4 }1 S' I7 L4 c4 z9 W- fof members are committed between 6 p.m. and 6 a.m.
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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.__________
8 `; a$ P6 n% w+ b$ N5 y4 Ynight in December, January, or February. The most
- ?- f/ s% `! i. G/ i0 Runcriminal month of all? May--except for one strange
2 _; }2 E5 w1 Vstatistic. More dog bites are reported in this month
than in an other month of the year. 6.__________

Apparent our intellectual seasonal cycles are 7.__________
% S2 G% i# L* V6 o* k& Gcompletely different from our criminal tendencies.
: G. q5 }6 {: `; F3 S! Bprofessor Huntington, of the Foundation for the Study
of Cycles, made extensive studies to discover the
5 P2 L$ b0 q* @4 O; ^) ]seasons when people read serious books, attend scientific
meetings, make the highest scores on examinations,
& P7 q+ }  L4 \  _  pand to propose the most changes to patents. In all 8.__________
; Z# v4 T# Q1 ]0 a9 hinstances, he found a spring peak and an autumn peak
1 N, Z( P7 F) U7 H2 cseparated by a summer low. On other hand, Professor 9.__________
7 t0 q' ^- B+ z! O; o- u; BHuntington’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!
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参考答案　
1. before → ago
2. surprised → surprising
3. does → do
! ~. V- ~' i, ^4 |5 I, }6 P% Q4. however → moreover
5 A+ n3 l! y* ~2 b7 ?; o* s5. being → be
6. an → any
7. apparent → apparently
3 E* ]1 E1 \- f% g: P* \; Y8. to(1) → /
! x/ M  R' K6 X8 l! o1 ?- B; b9. On ∧ other → the
10. in → to