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Crime has its own cycles, a magazine re-
ported some years before. Police records that 【M1】______.
were studied for five years over 2,400 cities
and towns show a surprised link between 【M2】______
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 does rape and 【M3】______
other violent attacks. Murder, however, is 【M4】______
more than seasonal: it is a weekend crime. It
is also a hightime crime :62 percent of mur-
ders are committed between 6 p. m. and 6 a.m.
Unlike the summer high in crimes of bod-
ily harm, burglary has a different cycle. You
are most likely to being robbed between 6 【M5】______
p.m. and 2 a.m. on a Saturday night in De-
cember, January, or February. The most un-
criminal month of all?
May--except for one strange statistic,
more dog bites are reported in this month than
an other month of the year. 【M6】______
Apparent our intellectual seasonal cycles 【M7】______
are completely different from our criminal
tendencies. Professor Huntington, of the
Foundation for the Study of Cycles, made ex-
tensive studies to discover the seasons when
people read serious books, attend scientific
meetings, make the highest scores on exami-
nation, and to propose the most changes to 【M8】______
patents. In all instances, he found a spring
peak and an autumn peak separated by a sum-
mer low. On other hand, Professor Hunting- 【M9】______
ton's studies indicated that June is the peak
month for suicides and admissions in mental 【M10】______
hospitals. June is also a peak month for mar-
riage!
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A.
were
B.
The
C.m.
Unlike
D.m.
E.m.

【参考答案】

“before”改为“ago”
“before”改为“ago” 解析:在一般过去时里表达一段时间的时间状语时一般用ago。
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