Which of the following is NOT stated or implied about education?
A. Higher education should be reserved for the talented people.
B. The nation should view education as an investment.
C. Education should be the primary goal for the congressional budget.
D. Education and national prosperity are deeply connected.
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Although there are more female students at the college than male students, the women seem
A. tremendous
B. negligible
C. provocative
D. venerable
Which of the following is mentioned by the author as one of our most valuable assets?
A. Perseverance.
B. Our potential.
C. 24 hours each day.
D. Our attitude to life.
Commercial Vices
The commercial vices are drugs. The appeals of the commercial vices are so strong and widespread that attempts to prohibit them in western countries have always failed. The evils of these vices are threefold: Those who practice them suffer, the criminals who sell them prosper, and the enforcement organizations are expensive, unsuccessful, and often corrupt.
Drugs is one of the three commercial vices — gambling and prostitution — accepted as unstoppable, but there evils have been minimized by legalization and regulation.
The United States attempted to prohibit alcohol and failed. The Mafia made its money by bootlegging alcohol. The gangsters of the twenties and thirties were in the alcohol business just as the drug peddlers of today are in the drug business. When alcohol prohibition was repealed and sale by licensed dealers was instituted, the Mafia went out of the liquor business and the revenue agents assigned to stop the illegal business went out of business too. The quality of regulated liquor became assured and taxed, revenue not high enough to motivate bootlegging. It became a source of public revenue.
In conclusion, the government should take any law they can't enforce and turn it around in order to make and save money. But they are also making fewer jobs for the police and other law enforcement agencies. I believe that in the end this way of doing things will be more likely feasible.
The Mafia went out of the liquor business,
A. because the quality of regulated liquor became assured and taxed.
B. because the bootlegging became a source of public revenue.
C. because they settled trade disputes with gunfire but without profit.
D. because there was no more revenue worth risking their lives.
W: Don't worry.I'll try to bring you up-to-date what we've done.
Q: What is the woman probably going to do?
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A. She will help the man with his study.
B. She will drive to pick him up to his home.
C. She will pass the examination soon.
D. She will find the latest information for him.