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American Gun Pays Deluge Recently, many people have been killed by gun-shot in America. In the past, national political lead

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问题                         American Gun Pays Deluge
    Recently, many people have been killed by gun-shot in America. In the past, national political leaders might have raised troubling questions about how an unstable character could obtain easy access to high-powered weapons. They might have been even more motivated given that Poplawski’s cop-killing case was part of a near epidemic of mass murders that have left 58 people dead over the past month. Or given that Mexico’s madly violent drug groups are arming them selves with high-powered assault (攻击) weapons purchased at US gun stores and later smuggled south of the border. Yet many past champions of stricter gun-control measures ars silent. These include about top Obama White House officials who have forbade any talk within the administration about pushing further gun-control measures.
    Running for president in last year’s Democratic primaries, Barack Obama promised to restore a federal ban on certain semiautomatic (半自动的) assault guns—a position that’s still on the White House Web site. The ban was originally passed by the Democratic-controlled Congress in 1994 and abolished five years ago. In recent years the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (烟酒枪支爆炸物管理局) has also lifted virtually all restriction on imports of foreign-made assault weapons, permitting a flood of cheap Romanian, Bulgarian and other Eastern European AK-47s to enter the country, according to gun-control groups.
    But Obama and to White House aides have all but abandoned the issue. Emanuel helped arrange passage of the original assault-weapons ban when he worked in the Clinton White House. Now he and other White House strategists have decided they can’t afford to debate with the National Rifle Association at a time when they’re pushing other priorities, like economic renewal and health-care reform, say congressional officials. A White House official, who asked not to identified discussing internal strategy, says," there isn’t support in Congress for such a ban at his time." A White House spokesman says, " the President supports the Second Amendment, respects the tradition of gun ownership in this country, and be believes we can take common-sense steps to keep our streets safe." Pointing to $ 2 billion in new funding for state and local law enforcement in the stimulus package.
What can be inferred from Para. 1 ?
选项 A、The political leaders are looking for the easy way to get high-powered weapons.
B、Only 58 people survived the mass people-killing over the past month.
C、It is not permitted to sell guns to Mexicans in America.
D、High-powered weapons are available in the gun stores in America.
答案D
解析 推理判断题。由题干中的para．1定位到第一段。由第四句可知，墨西哥的贩毒团伙都是从美国的枪支商店配备了大威力的武器然后去走私毒品的，所以可推断出“美国的枪支商店出售大威力的武器”。故选[D]。由第三句可知，58人丧生，故排除[B]；由第二句可知，这些领导人质疑为什么不稳定分子总能轻易地弄到大威力的武器，并不能推断出“政治领人都在寻找获得大威力武器的办法”，故排除[A]；文章没有提到向墨西哥人销售武器是否合法，所以不能推断出“禁止在美国领土向墨西哥人出售武器”，故排除[C]。
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