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  3. Drunken driving — sometimes called American’s socially accepted form of murder — has become a national 【C1】______ Every hour of

Drunken driving — sometimes called American’s socially accepted form of murder — has become a national 【C1】______ Every hour of

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问题     Drunken driving — sometimes called American’s socially accepted form of murder — has become a national 【C1】______  Every hour of every day about three Americans on average are killed by drunken  drivers, adding 【C2】______  to an incredible 250,000 over the past decade.
    A drunken driver is usually defined as one with a 0.10 blood alcohol 【C3】______  or roughly three beers, glasses of wine or 【C4】______  of whisky drank within two hours. Heavy drinking used to be a (n) 【C5】______  part of the American macho image and judges were, lenient in most courts, but the drunken 【C6】______  has recently caused so many tragedies, especially involving children, 【C7】______  public opinion is no longer tolerant.
     Twenty states have raised the 【C8】______  drinking age to 21, rather than 18. After New Jersey lowered it to 18, the number of people killed by 18-to-20-year old drivers more than 【C9】______  , so the state recently upped it back to 21.
     Reformers, however, fear 【C10】______  the drinking age will have little effect unless accompanied by educational 【C11】______  to help young people to develop "responsible attitudes" and teach them to resist 【C12】______  pressure to drink.
     Tough new laws have led to increased arrests and tests and, in some areas, to a marked 【C13】______   in fatalities. Some are also penalizing bars for 【C14】______  customers too many drinks. A tavern in Massachusetts was 【C15】______  for serving six or more double brandies to a customer who was " 【C16】______  intoxicated" and later drove off the road, killing a nine-year-old boy.
    【C17】______  the fatalities continue to occur daily, some Americans are even beginning to speak well of the 13 years of national 【C18】______  of alcohol that began in 1919, what President Hoover called the "noble 【C19】______  ". They forget that legal prohibition didn’t stop drinking, but encouraged corruption and crime.  As with the booming drug trade generally, there is no easy 【C20】______  .
【C5】
选项 A、necessary
B、acceptable
C、important
D、vital
答案B
解析 形容词辨析题。根据后面提到的“法官在大多数案件中通常都会比较仁慈”，我们可以推测酗酒过去常常被人们看作是美国人男子汉形象中的一部分，是被人所接受的，故选B acceptable。A necessary“必要的”，C important“重要的”，D vital“至关重要的”，都不合题意。
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