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Placing a human being behind the wheel of an automobile often has the same curious effect as cutting certain fibres in the brain

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问题     Placing a human being behind the wheel of an automobile often has the same curious effect as cutting certain fibres in the brain.
    The result in either case is more primitive behaviour. Hostile feelings are apt to be expressed in an aggressive way.
    The same man who will step aside for a stranger at a doorway will, when behind the wheel, risk an accident trying to beat another motorist through an intersection. The importance of emotional factors in automobile accidents is gaining recognition. Doctors and other scientists have concluded that the highway death toll resembles an epidemic and should be investigated as such.
    Dr. Ross A. McFarland, Associate Professor of Industrial Hygiene at the Harvard University School of Public Health, said that accidents “now constitute a greater threat to the safety of large segments of the population than diseases do. ”
    Accidents are the leading cause of death between the ages of 1 and 35. About one third of all accidental deaths and one seventh of all accidental injuries are caused by motor vehicles.
    Based on the present rate of vehicle registration, unless the accident rate is cut in half, one of every 10 persons in the country will be killed or injured in a traffic accident in the next 15 years.
    Research to find the underlying causes of accidents and to develop ways to detect drivers who are apt to cause them is being conducted at universities and medical centres. Here are some of their findings so far:
    A man drives as he lives. If he is often in trouble with collection agencies, the courts, and police, chances are he will have repeated automobile accidents. Accident repeaters usually are egocentric, exhibitionistic, resentful of authority, impulsive, and lacking in social responsibility. As group, they can be classified as borderline psychopathic personalities, according to Dr. McFarland.
    The suspicion, however, that accident repeaters could be detected in advance by screening out persons with more hostile impulses is false. A study at the University of Colorado showed that there were just as many overly hostile persons among those who had no accidents as among those with repeated accidents.
    Psychologists currently are studying Denver high school pupils to test the validity of this concept. They are making psychological evaluations of the pupils to see whether subsequent driving records will bear out their thesis.  
The author believes that, behind the wheel of an automobile, some people act
选项 A、as though they were uncivilized.
B、as though they should change their attitudes from hostility to amicability.
C、as though their brain fibres needed cutting.
D、as though they wanted to repress hostile feelings.
答案A
解析 事实细节题。文章第一段提到了那些behind the wheel的人，紧接着第二段又对第一段做了进一步补充。第二段第一句话 The result in either case is more primitive behaviour中的primitive就是uncivilized的意思，所以答案应为[A]。[B]项表述的内容无法从原文中获得；[C]项则是对原文的混乱转述；[D]项的内容与原文的思想相悖，原文中认为开车人的行为像是原始冲动，那么原始冲动肯定不能说repress(抑制)hostile feelings，而是要发泄自己的不满。
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