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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.
Which of the following is true about the federal ban on semi-automatic assault guns?
选项 A、It was one of Obama’s promises when he competed within his party.
B、It is still effective to limit the sale of semi-automatic assault guns.
C、It was the second time for the ban to be passed by Congress in 1994.
D、None of the Americans want to bring it back because it is too complex.
答案A
解析 事实细节题。由题干中的the federal ban on semi-automatic assault guns定位到第二段第一句。从该句可以看出，奥巴马竞选民主党内第一候选资格的时候，曾经许诺要恢复对半自动突击炮的法律限制。这一承诺现在仍可在白宫网页上找到。[A]“对半自动突击炮的法律限制是奥巴竞选时的一项承诺”与文章相符。由第二段第二句可知，这条禁令1994年获得国会通过，然后五年前被废止了。[B]“这条禁令现在依然有效”与文中意思不符，故排除；本段第二句originally的意思就是“最初，首次”，可见当时并不是“禁令第二次获得国会通过”，故排除[C]；[D]“美国人都不希望恢复这条禁令”，文章中并没有明确的指出，但是奥巴马以此项禁令承诺并最终当选总统也可说明至少还有人希望限制枪支的使用，故排除。
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