Types of Theft.

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1. Hoteliers are usually happy to offer you a safe corner to park your machine overnight. This is very necessary, particularly in Paris where … theft is rifle.

2. In the area of … theft, insiders steal considerably more money and merchandise than outsiders.

3. Last year, more than 5,300 vehicles were stolen in El Paso, a city of half a million people. That’s almost twice the nation … theft rate for urban areas.

4. Philips Saunders, a former dealer, estimates that works worth about $3.5 billion have gone missing this year, putting … theft behind only the drugs trade and computer fraud in value.

5. South Miami Beach is notorious for pickpockets and … theft.

6. The organization behind … theft is not as sophisticated as behind fine art. Paneling, fireplaces and staircases are being ripped out and sold to dealers who do not ask too many questions.

7. Two white men, one of them a policeman, have been arrested in connection with an … theft last weekend, when a large quantity of weapons was taken from an air force base in Pretoria.

Joyriding and car jacking

Car theft includes joyride: stealing a car for the pleasure of driving it, often at very high speeds, and carjacking, stealing a car, sometimes at gunpoint, when its driver is in it.

8. Here are two articles: one about joyriding, consisting of two sections, and the other about carjacking, consisting of four. Compete the gaps with appropriate words and say which section belong to the article. (The sections are in the correct order for each article.)

Sorting out crimes.

1. Stop your car at a red light in Detroit and you may find you have lost it for good [навсегда]. Thieves have hit on an easy way [придумали легкий способ] of stealing cars: order the driver out at gunpoint, then take his place and drive off. … is not limited to Detroit – Houston has reported as many as ten in one day and San Diego, Atlanta and Los Angeles are infected – but it has become a mini-epidemic in the city and some of its suburbs in recent weeks.

2. Most teenage … are school failures [неуспевающие в школе] who believe they are very good or exceptional drivers [замечательные водители] and take cars for excitement, according to a survey on car crime. Although they knew it was wrong to steal a car, most of those interviewed, all under 17, did not consider themselves criminals and had almost no concern for the victims of their crime.

3. In the past six weeks more than 300 drivers have been … in Detroit. Several people, including an off-duty policeman, have been killed trying to resist.

4. Jeff Briggs, who carried out the survey [провел опрос] among 200 youths at a car project at Walker, Newcastle upon Tyne, said that while many people complained about the term, … was an accurate description of the experience of taking vehicles. ‘They get a good time, an enormous amount of joy out of … ,’ he told a conference on car crime in London yesterday.

5. There have been about 200 arrests. … may be an easy way to steal a car – and two thirds [две трети] of the cars have been recovered – but the penalty for being caught is high.

6. Armed robbery carries a much bigger penalty than theft. The … spree [кутеж] has left Detroit’s inner city even emptier than usual.

9. Use the Simple Past or the Past Continuous Tenses.

1. I (hear, not) the thunder during the storm last night because I (sleep). 2. It was beautiful yesterday when we went for a walk in the park. The sun (shine). A cool breeze (blow). The birds (sing). 3. My brother and sister (argue) when I (walk) into the room. 4. While Mrs. Emerson (read) the little boy a story, he (fall) asleep, so she (close) the book and quietly (tiptoe) out of the room. 5. It was my first day of class. I (find, finally) the right room. The room (be, already) full of students. On one side of the room, students (talk, busily) to each other in Spanish. Other students (speak) Japanese, and some (converse) in Arabic. It (sound) like the United Nations. Some of the students, however, (sit, just) quietly by themselves. I (choose) a vacant seat in the last row and (sit) down. In a few minutes, the teacher (come) into the room and all the multilingual conversation (stop). 6. When I (arrive) she (have) lunch. She (apologize) for starting without me but said that she always (lunch) at 12.30. 7. He suddenly (realize) that he (travel) in the wrong direction. 8. Her mother often (tell) her that she (spend) too much money but she never (listen). 9. As they (walk) along the road they (hear) a car coming behind them. Tom (turn) round and (hold) up his hand. The car (stop). 10. While he (make) his speech the minister suddenly (feel) faint. But someone (bring) him a glass of water and after a few minutes he (be) able to continue.