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, Indiana. 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

　　1-5 CABDB  6-10 ACDAC    11-15 DABDC  16-20 ABDDB  

　　    本文记叙的是Tim Becker和他的邻居努力地使他们的邻里无烦无虑、安全通畅而做的一些工作。