Questions 27~31 are based on the following passage. Drunken driving -- sometimes called America's socially accepted form. of murder -- has become a national epidemic. Every hour of every day about three Americans on average are killed by drunken drivers, adding up to an incredible 250,000 over the past decade.
A drunken driver is usually defined as one with a 0. 10 blood alcohol content or roughly three beers, glasses of wine or shots of whisky drunk within two hours. Heavy drinking used to be an acceptable part of the American man image and judges were tolerant in most courts, but the drunken slaughter (屠杀) has recently caused so many well-publicized tragedies, especially involving young children, that public opinion is no longer so tolerant.
Twenty states have raised the legal drinking age to 21, reversing a trend in the 1960s to reduce it to 18. After New Jersey lowered it to 18, the number of people killed by 18 to 20-year-old drivers more than doubled, so the state recently upped it back to 21.
Reformers, however, fear raising the drinking age will have little effect unless accompanied by educational programs to help young people to develop "responsible attitudes" about drinking and teach them to resist pressure to drink.
New laws have led to increased arrests and tests and, in many areas already, to a marked de- dine in fatalities. Some states are also penalizing bars for serving customers too many drinks. A tavern (小酒店) in Massachusetts was fined for serving six or more double brandies to a customer who was "obviously intoxicated (喝醉的)" and later drove off the road, killing a nine-year-old boy. As the fatalities continue to occur daily in every state, some Americans are even beginning to speak well of the 13 years of national prohibition of alcohol that began in 1919, what President Hoover called the "noble experiment". They forget that legal prohibition didn't stop drinking, but encouraged political corruption and organized crime. As with the booming drug trade generally, there is no easy solution.
第27题:Drunken driving has become a popular problem in America because___________
A. accidents attract so much publicity
B. most Americans are heavy drinkers
C. drinking is a socially-accepted habit in America
D. Americans are now less shocked by road accidents
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Survey Finds Many Women Misinformed about Cancer
Sixty-three percent of American women think that if there’s no family history of cancer. You're not likely to develop the disease, a new survey found.
1n fact,most people who develop cancer have no family history of cancer。according to the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists(ACOG)(美国妇产科医师学会),which sponsored the survey.
"Too many women are dying from cancer。”Dr. Douglas W. Laube, ACOG's immediate
past president,Said during a Friday teleconference. "An estimated 200070 women will die in the U. S. this year,and over 600. 078 women will be diagnosed with cancer. The results of this survey found a worrisome(令人担忧的)gap in women's knowledge about cancer."
Based on the findings ACOG is increasing its efforts to educate women about cancer and the need for regular screening tests.
Although the survey found many misconceptions(错误观念)about cancer, 76 percent of women surveyed did say they feel knowledgeable about how they can reduce their risk of the disease.
However, only 52 percent said they were doing enough to reduce that risk. And 10 percent said they hadn’t done anything in the past year to lower their risk. Seventeen percent said they wouldn’t change their lifestyles even if changes would lower their cancer risk..
Many women said they were afraid to undergo screening out of fear of finding cancer. Twenty percent said they didn't want to know if they had cancer.
In response to these findings ACOG will launch on Oct. 2g a new website-Protect& Detect What Women should know about cancer. The guide is designed to help women to take charge of their health and improve their understanding of their risk of cancer-and the lifestyle. steps they can take to cut that risk.
16 Many American women have a poor knowledge of cancer.
A Right B Wrong C Not mentioned
To prevent flooding in winter the water flowing from the dam is constantly ________
A. graded
B. managed
C. conducted
D. monitored
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Debate over the Use of Renewable Energy
Amusable of Rockefeller University in New York, US says the key renewable(可再生的) energy sources, including sun, wind and bibfuls, would all require vast amounts of land if developed up to large scale production--unlike nuclear power. That land would be far better________(51)alone, he says. Renewable look_______ (52) when they are quite small. But if we start producing renewable energy on a large________(53), the fallout(结果)is going to be horrible.
Amusable draws his conclusions by analyzing the amount of energy that renewable natural gas and nuclei(原子核)can________(54)in terms of power per square meter of land used. Moreover, he claims that_________(55)renewable energy use increases this measure of efficiency wail decrease as the best land for wind, bibfuls, and solar power gets used up.
Solar power is much more__________ (56) than bibful in used but it would still ________(57)150 square kilometers terms of the area of land of photovoltaic(光电的)cells to match the energy production of the 1000 MW nuclear plant. In another example, he says__________ (58)the 2005 US electricity demand via wind need 780,000 square kilometers, an area the__________(59)of Texas power alone would. However, several experts are highly critical of Amusable’s ________(60). John Turner of the US government’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory says that even if the US got all of its_______ (61) from solar energy, it would still need less than half the amount of land that has been _________(62) highways. Further, it need not ________(63)up additional land. The US could get a quarter of its energy just from covering rooftops of existing buildings, he says
According to Turner, the same “dual use” also_________(64) to wind power footprint for wind is only 5%of the land that it ___________(65) . Farmers can still farm the land that the turbines are on. Turner says looking solely at land use is an over-simplification of the issue.
51. A left B ownedC held D bought