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In some ways, the United States has made spectacular progress. Fires no longer destroy 18 000 buildings as they did in the Great
In some ways, the United States has made spectacular progress. Fires no longer destroy 18 000 buildings as they did in the Great
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2012-07-17
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In some ways, the United States has made spectacular progress. Fires no longer destroy 18 000 buildings as they did in the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, or kill half a town of 2 400 people, as they did the same night in Peshtigo, Wisconsin. Other than the Beverly Hill Supper Club fire in Kentucky, in 1977, it has been four decades since more than 100 Americans died in a fire.
But even with such successes, the United States still has one of the worst fire death rates in the world. Safety experts say the problem is neither money nor technology, but the indifference of a country that just will not take fires seriously enough.
American fire departments are some of the world’s fastest and best equipped. They have to be. The United States has twice Japan’s population, and 40 times as many fires. It spends far less on preventing fires than on fighting them. American fire-safety lessons are aimed almost entirely at children, who die in disproportionately large numbers in fires but who, contrary to popular myth, start very few of them.
Experts say the fatal error is an attitude that fires are not really anyone’s fault. That is not so in other countries, where both public education and the law treat fires as either a personal failing or a crime. Japan has many wood houses; of the estimated 48 fires in world history that burned more than 10 000 buildings, Japan has had 27. Penalties for fire by negligence can be as high as life imprisonment.
In the United States, most education dollars are spent in elementary schools. But the lessons are aimed at too limited an audience? just 9 percent of all fire deaths are caused by children playing with matches.
The United States continues to rely more on technology than laws or social pressure. There are smoke detectors in 85 percent of all homes. Some local building codes now require home sprinklers (自动灭火装置). New heaters and irons shut themselves off if they are tipped.
To narrow the gap between the fire death rate in the United States and that in other countries, the author suggests______.
选项
A、developing new technology
B、counting more on laws and social pressure
C、placing a fire extinguisher in every family
D、reinforcing the safeness of household appliances
答案
B
解析
本题问为了减小美国和其他国家的火灾死亡率的差距,作者建议做什么。在最后一段第一句中,作者指责说美国人还在过多地依靠技术手段对付火灾,而不是利用法律和社会压力降低火灾发生率。换言之,在作者看来,美国人应该向日本人学习,不仅应提高消防技术,而且应提高社会意识,通过更严厉的法律和社会手段,达到降低火灾发生率的目的。因此,本题的正确答案应是B“更多地依靠法律和社会压力”。
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