Ask most people for their list of top ten of fears, and you'll be sure to find (33)_______ burgled is fairly high on the list. An informal survey I carried among friends at a party last week revealed that eight of them had had their homes (34)_______ into more than twice, and two had been burgled five times. To put the record straight, (35)______ of my friend owns valuable paintings or a sideboard full of family silverware. Three of them are students, in fact. The most typical burglar, it seems, involved the theft of easily transportable items - the television, the video, even food from freezer. This may have something to do with the (36)______ that the average burglar is in his (or her) late teens, and probably wouldn't know what to do with a Picasso, whereas selling a Walkman or a vacuum cleaner is a much easier matter. They are perhaps not so (37)______ professional criminals, as hard-up young people who need a few pounds and some excitement. (38)______ that this makes your house turned upside down and your favorite things stolen any easier to (39)______. In most case, the police have no luck recovering any of the stolen goods. Unless there is any definite (40)______, they are probably unable to do anything at all. And alarms or special locks don't seem to help either. The only advice my friends could (41)______ was "Never live on the ground floor" and "Keep two or three fierce dogs", which reminded me of a case, I read about, where the burglars' loot included the family's pet poodle.