Students have been complaining more and more about stolen property. Radios, cell phones, bicycles, pocket calculators and books have all been reported stolen. Are there enough campus police to do the job?

There are 20 officers in the campus security division. Their job is to handle crime, accidents, lost and found items, and traffic problems on campus. More than half of their time is spent directing traffic and writing parking tickets. Responding promptly to accidents and other emergencies is important, but it is their smallest job. Dealing with crime takes up the rest of their time. Very rarely did any violent crimes actually occur.

In the last five years there have been no murders, seven robberies, and about sixty other violent attacks, most of these involving fights at parties. On the other hand, there have been hundreds of thefts and cases of deliberate damaging of public property, which usually involves breaking windows or lights, or writing on walls. The thefts are not the carefully planned burglaries that you see in movies. Things get stolen when it is easy to steal them because they are left lying around unwatched. Do we really need more police？ Hiring more campus police would cost money, possibly making our tuition go up again. A better way to solve this problem might be for all of us to be more careful with our things.

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這篇文章談?wù)摰氖切@盜竊。從校園相關(guān)話題的角度而言，復(fù)合式聽寫的內(nèi)容非常貼近生活，是考生所熟悉的。具體聽寫內(nèi)容，單詞仍然以一句話的主干內(nèi)容為主，即名詞和動詞；而句子聽寫的長度和停頓間隔仍與往年一致，即18詞左右，且每句間隔1-2句。所以，復(fù)合式聽寫難度與往年持平。但是考生們應(yīng)考和平時聽寫時，都需要特別注意細(xì)節(jié)，如名詞復(fù)數(shù)的變化，emergency的復(fù)數(shù)emergencies； 難詞的拼寫calculator（計算器）、theft（盜竊）。