Tim Becker and his neighbors are doing something to make their neighborhood a trouble-free area.
When Tim Becker gets in his car to go shopping, he doesn’t ___1___ drive to a store and back home. He always looks ___2___ up and down the streets of his neighborhood. He looks for anything ___3___ such as strange cars, loud noises, ___4___ windows, or people gathering on street corners.
Tim ___5___ to a neighborhood watch group in Stoneville, Indians, USA. The neighborhood watch group ___6___ on the third Wednesday of every month. That’s ___7___ Tim gets together with about ten of his neighbors to discuss community ___8___. Members of the neighborhood watch group want to help the police ___9___ their homes, streets, and families safe.
Tina Stedman, president of ___10___ neighborhood watch group, agrees with Tim. “People seem to think that crime (犯罪) happens to other people but not ___11___ them. Well, it’s never happened to me.” She said, “But I don’t think anyone has the ___12___ to steal from other people or to make them feel ___13___ sitting in their own homes.”
Alex, a member of the group, said that all the neighbors ___14___ out for one another. “We ___15___ each other’s homes. We keep watch on the neighborhood at night and on weekends. Usually a ___16___ of four or five of us goes out together. If something doesn’t look right, then we call the ___17___. For example, if we notice a group of teenagers who seem to be looking for ___18___, or someone destroying property (财产), we report to the police.”
Alex feels the neighborhood watch groups ___19___ a lot in keeping crime down. Her husband Jim agrees, “Police are good people, but they can’t do ___20___.”
1. A. yet  B. still     C. just     D. rather
2. A. carefully       B. clearly       C. nervously   D. coldly
3. A familiar   B. unusual      C. expensive   D. interesting
4. A. curtained       B. open   C. old     D. broken
5. A. attends   B. belongs      C. goes    D. turns
6. A. meets     B. quarrels      C. sings   D. searches
7. A. where    B. why    C. when  D. how
8. A. politics   B. wealth C. health D. safety
9. A. keep      B. hold    C. let      D. protect
10. A. its B. his      C. their   D. your
11. A. round   B. on      C. about  D. to
12. A. right    B. chance       C. courage      D. mind
13. A. unlucky       B. unsafe C. disappointed     D. discouraged
14. A. set       B. let      C. hold    D. look
15. A. care     B. enter   C. watch  D. manage
16. A. group   B. set      C. number      D. crowd
17. A. judges  B. police C. firemen      D. doctors
18. A. work    B. burden       C. service       D. trouble
19. A. produce       B. find    C. get      D. help
20. A. anything      B. everything  C. harm   D. wrong