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Drunken driving--sometimes called America’s socially accepted form of murder--has become a national epidemic. Every hour of ever

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问题     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 an incredible 250,000 over the past decade.
    A drunken driver is usually defined as one with a 0.10 blood content or roughly three beers, glasses of wine or shots of whisky drank 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 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 is 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 peer pressure to drink.
    Tough new laws have led to increased arrests and tests and, in many areas already, to a marked decline in fatalities. Some states are also penalizing bars for serving customers too many drinks. A tavern in Massachusetts was fined for serving six or more double brandies to a customer who was "obviously intoxicated" and later drove off the road, killing a nine-year-old boy.
    As the fatalities continue to 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.
Public opinion regarding drunken driving has changed because ______.
选项 A、detailed statistics are now available
B、the news media have brought the problem to everybody’s attention
C、judges are given more severe sentences
D、drivers are more conscious of their image
答案B
解析 本题为推理题。文章第二段提到“the drunken slaughter．．．no longer so tolerant”，意为“因为最近酒后驾车导致了很多悲剧，且媒体加强了对这方面事故的报道，尤其是其中很多小孩子成为受害者，这使得美国公众对酒后驾车不再采取过去那种宽容的态度”。所以B为正确答案。
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