2017年職稱英語等級考試綜合類C級完形填空輔導(dǎo)(3)
Car Thieves Could Be Stopped Remotely
Speeding off1 in a stolen car, the thief thinks he has got a great catch2. But he is in a nasty surprise3. The car is fitted with a remote immobilizer, and a radio signal from a control center miles away will ensure that once the thief switches the engine 1 , he will not be able to start it again.
For now, such devices 2 only available for fleets of trucks4 and specialist vehicles used on construction sites. But remote immobilization technology could soon start to trickle down to ordinary cars5, and 3 be available to ordinary cars in the UK 4 two months.
The idea goes like this. A control box fitted to the car incorporates6 5 miniature cellphone, a microprocessor and memory, and a GPS7 satellite positioning receiver. 6 the car is stolen, a coded cellphone signal will tell the unit to block the vehicle’s engine management system and prevent the engine 7 restarted.
There are even plans for immobilizers 8 shut down vehicles on the moves8, though there are fears over the safety implications of such a system.
In the UK, an array of9 technical fixes10 is already making 9 harder for car thieves. “The pattern of vehicles crime has changed.” says Martyn Randall of Thatcham, a security research organization based in Berkshire11 that is funded in part 10 the motor insurance industry.
He says it would only take him a few minutes to 11 a novice how to steal a car, using a bare minimum of tools12. But only if the car is more than 10 years old.
Modern cars are a far tougher proposition13, as their engine management computer will not 12 them to start unless they receive a unique ID code beamed out14 by the ignition key. In the UK, technologies like this 13 achieve a 31 per cent drop in vehicle-related crime15 since 1997.
But determined criminals are still managing to find other ways to steal cars. Often by getting hold of the owner’s keys in a burglary. In 2000, 12 per cent of vehicles stolen in the UK were taken by using the owner’s keys, which doubles the previous year’s figure.
Remote-controlled immobilization system would 14 a major new obstacle in the criminal’s way by making such thefts pointless. A group that includes Thatcham, the police, insurance companies and security technology firms have developed standards for a system that could go on the market sooner than the expects. 詞匯： 15
immobilizer / i5mEubilaizE / n.使車輛不能調(diào)動的裝置 cellphone n.移動電話，手機(jī) ignition /i^5niFEn / n.點(diǎn)火
trickle /5trikl/ v.慢慢移動 immobilization /i7mEubilai5zeiFEn / n.使車輛不能調(diào)動 12 burglary /5bE:^lEri/ n.夜竊行為;盜竊注釋：
1. speed off：超速駕駛
2. catch：捕獲物，獵獲物
3. nasty：very unpleasant or annoying使人不愉快的;煩人的
4. fleets of trucks：卡車隊。 Fleet：a group of vessels or vehicles owned or operated as a unit車隊
5. trickle down to ordinary cars：慢慢地用到普通汽車上。 trickle：to move or proceed slowly or bit by bit慢慢地或一點(diǎn)一點(diǎn)地移動或前進(jìn)
6. incorporate：to cause to merge or combine together into a united whole混合，合并到某一整體中
7. GPS：Global Positioning System全球定位系統(tǒng)
8. vehicles on the move：在行駛中的車輛
9. an array of：一群;一批
10. technical fixes：技術(shù)裝置
11. Berkshire：a county of south-central England貝克郡，位于英格蘭中南部
12. a bare minimum of tools：極少的工具。 bare：just sufficient;mere剛剛充足的;僅僅
13. Modern cars are a far tougher proposition：現(xiàn)代車遠(yuǎn)沒有這么簡單(偷盜現(xiàn)代車要困難得多 )。Proposition：a matter to be dealt with;a task任務(wù)，要處理的事務(wù)。
14. beam out：to emit or transmit發(fā)送，傳送
15. drop in vehicle-related crime：涉及車輛犯罪案的下降。 drop：decrease下降
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