Car Thieves CouId Be Stopped Remotely
Speeding off in a sto1en car,the thief thinks he has got a great catch.But he is in a nasty surprise.The ear is fitted with a remote immobilizer (使车辆不能调动的装置),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 stat it again.
For now,such devices_____(2)only available for fleets of trucks and specialist vehicles used on construction sites.But remote immobilization technology could soon start to trickle down to ordinarv ears.and_____(3)he available to ordinary ears in the UK_____(4)two months.
The idea goes like this.A control box fitted to the car incorporates_____(5)miniature cell-phone ,a microprocessor and memory,and a GPS satellite positioning receiver._____(6)the car is stolen, a coded cell-phone signal will tell the unit t0 block the vehicle’s engine management system and prevent the engine_____(7)restarted.
There are even plans for immobilizers_____(8)shut-down vehicles 0n the move,though there are fears over the safety implications of such a system.
In the UK.an array of technical fixes is already making_____(9)harder for car thieves.“The pattern 0f Vehicles crime has changed,"says Manyn Randall of Thatcham.a security research organization based in Berkshire that is funded in part_____(10)the motor insurance industry.
He says it would only take him a flew minutes to_____(11)a novice how to steal a ear,using a bare minimum of tools.But only if the cal-is more than 10 years old.
Modem cars are a far tougher proposition,as their engine management computer will not_____(12)them to start unless they receive a unique ID code beamed out by the ignition key.In the UK.technologies like this_____(13)achieve a 31 per cent drop in vehicle-related crime since 1997 .
But determined criminals ore 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 using the owner's keys double 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_____(15)expects.
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Which of the following statement is incorrect?
A. Language is a means of expressing a particular culture.
B. All languages can well express their respective culture.
C. Some primitive languages can also express their cultures.
D. Some primitiVe languages are better than other languages.