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Drunken driving—sometimes called America’s socially accepted form of murder—as become a national epidemic. Every hour of every d

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问题    Drunken driving—sometimes called America’s socially accepted form of murder—as become a national epidemic. Every hour of every day about three Americans on average are killed by drunken drivers, adding up to an incredible 250,000 over the past decade.     A drunken driver is usually defined as one with a 0.10 blood alcohol content or roughly three beers, glasses of wine or several small glasses of whisky drunk within two hours. Heavy drinking used to be an acceptable part of the American manly image mid judges were not severe in most courts, but the deaths caused by drunken driving have 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, changing a trend in the 1960s to reduce it to 18. After New Jersey lowered it to 18,the number of people killed by 18-20 year-old drivers more than doubled, so the state recently upped it back to 21.
   Reformers, however, fear that 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 number of death. Some states are also punishing bars for serving customers too many drinks. A bar or pub in Massachusetts was fined for serving six or more brandies to a customer who was" obviously drunk" and later drove off the road, killing a nine-year-old boy.
   As the deaths caused by accidents continue to occur 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 the drug trade is increasing generally, there is no easy solution.
The problem of drinking and driving is difficult to solve because______.
选项 A、alcohol is easily obtained
B、drinking is linked to organized crime
C、legal prohibition has already failed
D、law or regulation alone is not sufficient
答案D
解析 本题考查酒后驾车问题难以得到根治的原因，定位到最后一段可知，美国从1913年就开始全民禁酒，结果并没有阻止人们饮酒，相反却导致政治腐败，造成有组织的犯罪，随着酿酒业的繁荣，还没有一种简单的解决办法，所以单靠法律来解决饮酒和驾驶的问题是行不通的，因此选[D]。[A]很容易买到酒，并不是问题的主要原因，与文意不符；[B]饮酒同有组织的犯罪联系在一起，是全民禁酒产生的后果，并不是造成酒后驾车难以根治的原因；[C]合法的禁酒运动失败了，这是一个事实，但与当今的酒后驾车没有联系。
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