在过去几年中，统计数字显示入室盗窃案件大幅上升，现在情况已经非常惊人。让我告诉您一些相关数字：现在每三分钟就会有一户失窃。据报道，在过去的五年中，报警的入室盗窃案件数上升了6万，今年已超过50万。保险公司说，仅去年，入室盗窃所造成的损失就比前一年上升了38%，达到两亿一千九百七十万英镑。据我所知，有一两家公司拒绝在所谓高风险地区内提供入室盗窃保险。

　　SECTION 5: READING TEST

　　Question 1:

　　Americans’ attitude towards the population growth changed greatly/ in 1967. The nation was welcoming the birth of “the 200 millionth American” (the President’s “hailing” + Life magazine’s searching for that baby) /today the growth has not attracted much attention (“hasn’t generated much hoopla”) /no one cared much about “who became America’s 300 millionth citizen”

　　Question 2:

　　The growth of population partly due to the “influx” of Hispanics and Asians /in many parts of America, the challenges will come from the “new ethnic and racial residents”/ in political areas, the traditional “liberal/conservative” opposition/confrontation will be replaced by “young/old” opposition (“divide” “dichotomy”)/ a much controversial issue with mixed impacts

　　Question 3:

　　On one hand, population growth is often linked to economic growth/ it can be considered as an “advantage” to a nation/ on the other, the impact of population growth in America much more complicated/ with possible negative results/ more land might be used for residential purposes/ more forest and prairie would be destroyed/ causing environmental problems

　　Question 4:

　　Pendulum List Searching/ a new intelligence DNA analytical tool/ when police encounter a mixture of DNA/ PLS generates a list of theoretical DNA profiles that could make up the mix/ led to conviction of Duncan Turner/ Scientists found a mixture of DNA from different people on a pair of sunglasses found at the crime scene/ use PLS/ 500 pairs theoretical DNA fingerprints were entered into the database/ one matched Turner.

　　Question 5:

　　there’s really no hiding places for the criminals now/ advances in DNA science had already led to suspects being identified beyond the grave and would continue to become more powerful/ the advent of new ways to collect DNA from items at crime scenes, coupled with powerful analytical tools/ possible to obtain DNA profiles of suspects from undetected crimes or cold cases committed nearly 20 years ago.

　　Question 6:

　　for police forces/ DNA database is an invaluable resource/ the best evidence that’ll ever be presented to the criminal justice system by some considerable way/ privacy groups/ fear the privatized database could potentially be misused

　　Question 7:

　　Compared with the old test, the new test “favors” girls more /as predicted by the author /the addition of the writing section narrows (“to shrink”) the score gap between boys and girls/ reliability of the test affected/ “formulaic, colorless writing” given higher scores over original “sharp young voices”/ the grading of the test more subjective