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  3. Crime has its own cycles, a magazine reported some years ago. Police 【B1】______ that were studied for five years from over 2,400

Crime has its own cycles, a magazine reported some years ago. Police 【B1】______ that were studied for five years from over 2,400

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问题     Crime has its own cycles, a magazine reported some years ago. Police 【B1】______ that were studied for five years from over 2,400 cities and towns show a surprising 【B2】______ between changes in the season and crime patterns.
    The pattern of crime has changed very little over a long period of years. Murder reaches its high during July and August, as do other 【B3】______ attacks. Murder, in 【B4】______ , is more than seasonal; it is a weekend crime. It is also a nighttime crime: 62 percent of murders are 【B5】______ between 6 p.m. and 6 a. m.
    Unlike the summer high in crimes of bodily harm, break and enter or "B and E" has a different cycle. You are most likely to be robbed between 6 p.m. and 2 a.m. on a Saturday night in 【B6】______ , January, or February. Which is the least criminal month of all? May — except for one strange 【B7】______ . More dog bites are reported in this month than in any other month of the year.
    【B8】______ our intellectual seasonal cycles are completely different from our criminal patterns. Professor Huntington, of the Foundation for the Study of Cycles, 【B9】______ In all examples, he found a spring peak and an autumn peak separated by a summer low.
    On the other hand, Professor Huntington’s studies showed that 【B10】______
    Possibly, high temperature and humidity (湿度) bring on our strange and surprising summer actions, but police officers are not sure." 【B11】______ ," they say.
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答案There is, of course, no proof of a relation between humidity and murder; why murder’s high time should come in the summer time we really don’t know
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