Tim Becker and his neighbours are doing some?thing to make their neighbourhood a trouble-free area.
When Tim Becker gets in his car to go shopping,he doesn't 4 drive to a store and back home. He always looks 5 up and down the streets of his neighbourhood. He looks for anything 6 such as strange cars,loud noises,7 windows,or people gathering on street corners.
Tim 8 to a neighbourhood watch group in Stoneville,Indiana <, USA. The neighbourhood watch group 9 on the third Wednesday of every month. That's 10 Tim gets together with about ten of his neighbours to discuss community 11 . Members of the neighbourhood watch group want to help the police 12 their streets and families safe.
Tina Stedman,president of 13 neighbourhood watch group,agrees with Tim. "People seem to think that crime (犯罪) happens to other people but not
14 them. Well,it's never happened to me," she said, "but I don't think anyone has the 15 to steal from other people or to make them feel 16 sitting in their own homes.” Alex,a member of the group,said that all the neighbours 17 out for one another. " We 18 each other's homes. We keep watch on the neighbour?hood at night and on weekends. Usually a 19 of four or five of us go out together. If something doesn't look right,then we call the 20 .For example,if we notice a group of teenagers who seem to be looking for 21 ,or someone destroying property (财产) ， we report to the police." Alex feels the neighbourhood watch group 22 a lot in keeping crime down. Her husband Jim agrees "Police are good people,but they can't do 23 ."
4. A. yet B. still C. just D. rather
5. A. carefully B. clearly C. nervously D. coldly
6. A. familiar B. unusual
C. expensive D. interesting
7. A. curtained B. open C. old D. broken
8. A. attends B. belongs C. goes D. turns
9. A. meets B. quarrels C. sings D. searches
10. A. where B. why C. when D. how
11. A. politics B. wealth C. health D. safety
12. A. keep B. hold
C. let D. protect
13. A. its B. his C. their D. your
14. A. round B. on C. about D. to
15. A. right B. chance C. courage D. mind
16. A. unlucky B. unsafe
C. disappointed D. discouraged
17. A. set B. let C. hold D. look
18. A. care B. enter C. watch D. manage
19. A. group B. set
C. number D. crowd
20. A. judges B. police C. firemen D. doctors
21. A. work B. burden C. service D. trouble
22. A. produce B. find C. get D. help
23. A. anything B. everything C. harm D. wrong
