TEXT E
The Crime of the Month Crime has its own cycles, a magazine reported some years ago. Police records that were studied for five years from over 2,400 cities and towns show a surprising link between changes in the season and crime patterns.
The pattern of crime has varied very little over a long period of years. Murderreaches 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. The most uncriminal month of all? May——except for one strange statistic. More dog bites are reported in this month than in any other month of the year.
Apparently our intellectual seasonal cycles are 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 propose the most changes to patents. In all instances, he found a spring peak and an autumn peak separated by a summer low. On the other hand, Professor Huntington’s studies indicated that June is the peak month for suicides and admissions to mental hospitals. June is also a peak month for marriages!
Possibly soaring thermometers and high humidity bring on our strange and terrifying summer actions, but police officials are not sure. “There is, of course, no proof of a connection between humidity and murder,” they say. “Why murder’s high time should come in the summertime we really don’t know.”
78. According to the passage, a murder would most likely occur____.
A. on a weekend night in winter
B. on a weekday afternoon in summer
C. on a weekend night in summer
D. on a weekday night in winter
79. What is the one strange statistic for May?
A. There are more robberies in May.
B. There are more dog bites in May.
C. There is the most crime in May.
D. There are more suicides in May.
80. In paragraph 4, why is there an exclamation point (!) after the last sentence?
A. Because the author is surprised that so many people marry in June.
B. Because the author is surprised that the marriage peak occurs in the same month as the suicides and mental hospital peak.
C. Because the author doesn’t understand why the peak for suicides and marriage is the same month.
D. Because the author is excited that so many people marry in June.
SECTION B SKIMMING AND SCANNING［5 MIN.］
In this section there are five passages with a total of ten multiple-choice questions. Skim or scan them as required and then mark your answers on your Answer Sheet.
TEXT F
First read the following questions.
81. Which one of the following can serve as the title of this passage?
A. Nervous Aspects Connected with Handwriting.
B. A Special Problem in Teaching Handwriting.
C. The Problems of the Left-Handed Child.
D. Stammering, Mirror Wring and Reversals.
82. The traditional policy in teaching handwriting has____.
A. dismayed the experts
B. resulted in failure to learn to write
C. made many children skillful with both hands
D. resulted in unsolved problems
Now skim the passage below and mark your answers on your ANSWER SHEET.
One of the most urgent problems in teaching handwriting is presented by the left-handed child. The traditional policy has been to attempt to induce all children to write with their right hands. Parents and teachers alike have an antipathy to the child’s using his left hand. On the other hand, psychologists have shown beyond a doubt that some persons are naturally left-handed and that it is much more difficult for them to do any skillful act with their right hand than with their left hand. Some believe, furthermore, that to compel a left-handed child to write with his right hand may make him nervous and may cause stammering. There seems to be some cases in which this is true, although in the vast majority of children who change over, no ill effects are noticed. In addition to these difficulties, left-handedness sometimes seems to cause mirror writing——writing from right to left——and reversals in reading, as reading “was”for“saw”.