3、You can never be too sure these days in the United States of your neighbors or even your customers! Try to keep a low profile（姿态）in your neighborhood: Don’t announce to just about everyone that you are running a home business with thousands of dollars worth of equipment. As much as possible, don’t invite clients（客户）or visitors to your home. In fact ,I know of some home-based entrepreneurs（企业家）who would rather meet their clients in a neutral ground, e.g. the client’s office or even Starbucks.  

There are other ways to keep burglars away from your house.  

●Keep lights on around your house in the evenings. Light is a natural fright for burglars.  

●Invest in a security alarm, particularly if your house is located in a remote spot. Security systems can often bring down the cost of your homeowner’s insurance premiums（费用）.  

●Make sure that all windows and doors are locked and the security alarm turned on before you sleep at night or go out of the house. Avoid keeping house keys in obvious places, such as under the lamp or top of the doorframe.  

●Adding an additional lock will provide extra security when you are home. The dead-lock, sometimes called an “exit-only deadbolt” is an deadbolt that doesn’t have an external（外部的）key. It’s clearly visible on the door from the outside, but can’t be broken into without destroying the door, frame, or lock itself. While the security won’t help directly when you aren’t home, the visibility may discourage an intruder from trying the door.  

●Your door itself should be made of strong materials, such as one-inch thick solid hardwood or heavy metal.  

 

64. The advice given by the writer in the passage focuses on __________.  

A. how to make your house safe from burglars  

B. what to do when your house is broken into  

C. how to improve social security in the United States  

D. how to run a home business  

65. Some home-based entrepreneurs don’t invite clients to their home ___________.  

A. to enjoy convenience outside their home  

B. for reasons of their property safety  

C. not to let others know their business  

D. in order to avoid being seen by burglars  

66. All the following are part of the writer’s advice except that the homeowner ________.  

A. buy a security alarm and turn it on in the evening  

B. fix an extra lock on the door for extra security  

C. have the doors made of solid hardwood or heavy metal  

D. keep lights on in all rooms to threaten burglars  

67. What does the underlined word “intruder” most probably mean in this passage?  

A. Someone who is invited to visit.  

B. Someone who illegally enters the home.  

C. Someone who pays regular visits to the home.  

D. Someone who tries to destroy the lock.