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!
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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