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  3. Do we need laws that prevent us from running risks with our lives? If so, then perhaps laws are needed prohibiting the sale of a

Do we need laws that prevent us from running risks with our lives? If so, then perhaps laws are needed prohibiting the sale of a

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问题     Do we need laws that prevent us from running risks with our lives? If so, then perhaps laws are needed prohibiting the sale of alcoholic drinks.
    We’ve already tried that. For 13 years, between 1920 and 1933, there were no liquor stores anywhere in the United States. They were shut down--abolished by an amendment(修正案). After January 20, 1920, there was supposed to be no more manufacturing, selling, or transporting of "intoxication liquors." Without any more liquor, people could not drink it. And if they did not drink it, how could they get drunk? There would be no more dangers to the public welfare from drunkenness and alcoholism. It was all very logical. And yet prohibition of liquor, beer, and wine did not work. Why?
    Because, law or no law, millions of people still liked to drink alcohol. And they were willing to take risks to get it. They were not about to change their tastes and habits just because of a change in the law. And gangs of liquor smugglers made it easy to buy an illegal drink—or two or three. They smuggled millions of gallons of the illegal beverages (饮料) across the Canadian and Mexican Borders. Drinkers were lucky to know of an illegal bar that served Mexican or Canadian liquor. Crime and drunkenness were both supposed to decline as a result of prohibition. Instead people drank more alcohol than ever—often poisoned alcohol.
    On December 5, 1933, they removed prohibition by approving the 21st Amendment to the Constitution.  
When enacting (颁布)the prohibition laws, government officials assumed that ______.
选项 A、every American would buy alcohol illegally
B、all criminal activities would cease
C、patrols of the Canadian border would halt the sale of alcohol
D、the social threat from drunkenness would decline
答案D
解析 推论题。第2段中自Without至alcoholism的3句话，说明了政府设想通过禁酒以达到D选项所述目的。assume一词含主观设想之意，意思为“以为，认为”。
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