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A million motorists leave their cars filled up with petrol and with the keys
A million motorists leave their cars filled up with petrol and with the keys
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2024-10-29
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A million motorists leave their cars filled up with petrol and with the keys in the ignition every day. The vehicles are sitting in petrol stations while drivers pay for their fuel. The Automobile Association (AA) has discovered that cars are left unattended for an average three minutes—and sometimes considerably longer—as drivers buy drinks, sweets, cigarettes and other consumer items—and then pay at the cash till. With payment by credit card more and more common, it is not unusual for a driver to be out of his car for as long as six minutes, providing the car thief with a golden opportunity.
In an exclusive AA survey, carried out at a busy garage on a main road out of London, 300 motorists were questioned over three days of the holiday period. Twenty four percent admitted that they "always" or "sometimes" leave the keys in their cars. This means that nationwide, a million cars daily become easy targets for the opportunist thief.
For more than ten years there has been a bigger rise in car crime than in most other types of crime. An average of more than two cars a minute are broken into, vandalized or stolen in the UK. Car crime accounts for almost a third of all reported offences with no signs that the trend is slowing down.
Although there are highly professional criminals involved in car theft, almost 90 percent of car crime is committed by the opportunist. Amateur thieves are aided by our own carelessness. When AA engineers surveyed on town center car park last year, ten percent of the cars checked were unlocked, a figure backed by a Home Office national survey that found 12 percent of drivers sometimes left their cars unlocked. The AA recommends locking up whenever you leave the car—and for however short a period. A partially open sun-roof or window is a further come-on to thieves.
There are many other traps to avoid. The Home Office has found little awareness among drivers about safe parking. Most motorists questioned made no efforts to avoid parking in quiet spots away from street lights—just the places thieves love. The AA advises drivers to park in places with people around—thieves don’t like audiences. Leaving valuables in view is an invitation to the criminals. A Manchester probationary service research project, which interviewed almost 100 car thieves last year, found many would investigate a coat thrown on a seat. Never leave any documents showing your home address in the car. If you have a garage, use it and lock it—a garaged car is at substantially less risk. [br] The main purpose of this passage is to______.
选项
A、analyse the rise of car theft in Britain
B、report the survey results by AA
C、suggest the ways to investigate car theft
D、compare car crime with other types of crime
答案
A
解析
本题询问全文的主要内容。全文主要分析了在英国,汽车失窃案件上升的原因,因此只有A项较为全面准确地概括了全文的内容。
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