The pattern of crime has varied very little over a long period of years. For particular types ofcrime, e.g. murder or robbery,variation occurs by season,day, and time of occurrence.Generally speaking, murder ismore likely to occur during the late spring and summer, peaking inJuly and August, as are rape and other violent attacks. Moreover, murder, is more thanseasonal: it is a weekend crime.It is also a nighttime crime: 62 percent of murders arecommitted between 6 p.m. and 6 a.m.

　　Unlike the summer high in crimes of bodily harm, burglary has a different cycle. It is reportedthat robbery occurs more frequently in the cold winter months reaching its peak during theholiday season. That's why you are most likely to be robbed becween 6 p.m. and 2 a.m. on aSaturday night in December, January, or February. What is the most uncriminal month of a11?May-ex-cept for one strange statistic. More dog bites are reported in this month than in anyother month of the year.

　　Apparently our intellectual seasonal cycles are completely different from our criminaltendencies. Professor Huntington, of the Foundation for the Study of Cycles, made extensivestudies 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 allinstances, he found a spring peak and an autumn peak separated by a summer low. On theother hand, Professor Huntington's studies indicated that June is the peak month for suicidesand admissions to mental hospitals. June is also a peak month for marriages!

　　Possibly soaring thermometers and high humidity bring on our strange and terrifying summeractions, but police officials are not sure. "There is,of course, no proof of a connection betweenhurnidity and murder."they say. "Why murder's high time should come in the summertime wereally don't know."

　　[1]犯罪行為不是隨機發生的，而是呈現出某些規律。在某些時間、地點、條件下，在某些人群當中，犯罪行為發生得更頻繁些。也就是說，[l]犯罪行為有其自身的周期性。幾年前某份雜志這樣報道說。研究人員對2400多個城鎮的立案犯罪記錄作了為期5年的研究，這些記錄一致表明，季節變化和犯罪模式之間存在著令人驚訝的關聯。

　　犯罪模式在長時間里鮮有變化。某些特定的罪行，比如謀殺和搶劫，是隨季節、日期和發生的時間而發生變化的。[2]一般來說，謀殺更可能發生在晚春和夏季，于7月和8月達到高峰。強奸和其他暴力犯罪也是如此。此外，謀殺不只是與季節有關，它還是一種周末犯罪行為。這種犯罪行為也常發生于夜間：62%的謀殺案是在下午6點到凌晨6點之間發生的。

　　涉及身體傷害的犯罪行為多發生在夏天，而夜間入室盜竊行為則與之不同，它有著另一種周期。據報道，搶盜行為在寒冷的冬季月份里發生得更多一些，且在假日到達高峰。[3]因此，在12月、1月或者2月的星期六晚上6點至凌晨2點人們最容易遭到搶劫，那么哪一個月份里犯罪行為最少呢?5月份——[4]不過有一項奇怪的統計數據：據報道，5月份被狗咬傷的案件比其他任何一個月份都多。

　　顯然我們智力活動的季節性周期與我們的犯罪傾向是完全不同的。“周期研究基金會”的Huntington教授做了廣泛的研究，以找出人們閱讀嚴肅讀物、參加科學會議、取得最好考試成績以及為專利提出最多修改的季節。[5]在所有的研究生中他都發現，春秋兩季人們的智力活動達到高峰，而在之間的夏季智力活動則處于低價。另-方面，Huntington教授的研究還表明，6月是自殺和精神病院入院人數最多的月份，而且6月也是結婚的高峰月份!

　　或許夏天氣溫高、濕度大，致使我們的行為變得怪異而可怕，可是警察卻不能確信這一點。他們說：“沒有任何證據表明濕度和謀殺之間有著關聯。我們真的并不知道為什么兇殺案件在夏天發生得最多。”

　　1.A surprising link between changes in the season and crime patterns impliesthat__________________.

　　2.According to the passage, murder occurs most frequently in the monthsof_____________________.

　　3.According to the passage, a winter midnight is most probably the timefor_____________________________.

　　4.What unusual thing is found in May?

　　5.What are our intellectual seasonal cycles according to Professor Huntingcon?

　　1.[crime has its own eycles/crime exhibits some regularities]

　　[定位]根據link between changes in the season and crime patterns定位于第1段。

　　解析：本題實質上是問文章的主題。原文第1句是主題句，隨后的第3句用That is to say引出另一種方式來點明主題，故答案可以從這兩句得出。

　　2.[July and August]

　　[定位]根據murder定位于第2段。

　　解析：第2段第3句中的peaking與題目中的most frequently表意一致，因此答案為peaking之后的兩個月份。

　　3.[burglary/robbery]

　　[定位]根據winter midnight鎖定第3段第3句。

　　解析：第3段第3句中的December, January， or February正是題干中的winter;且題干中midnight是該句中的between 6p.m.and 2 a.m.的一個時間點。題干中的most probably也對應該句中的most likely，故可推斷答題關鍵在于該句中的be robbed，而由題干中的for可知此空需填入名詞，與for -起構成介賓短語，故答案為rob的名詞形式robbery。此外，第3段第1句中的burglary為robbery的同義詞，在該段中作為同一種犯罪行為而被提及，故也可為答案。

　　4.[More dog bites occur in this month./There are more dog bites in May.]

　　[定位]根據May鎖定第3段最后兩句。

　　解析：第3段的倒數第2句提到5月份有一項奇怪的統計數據，題干中的unusual thing正對應此句，而隨后的一句是對這一句的具體說明，即本題的答案。

　　5.[Peaks in both spring and autumn separated by a summer low]

　　[定位]根據Professor Huntington鎖定第4段。

　　解析：解題的關鍵詞是第4段第3句中的in a1l instances，意為“所有的研究”，實指上文提到的關于intellectual seasonal cycles的所有研究，故可推斷下文提及的正是這些研究得出的總結，只需簡單改寫即為本題答案。