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  3. Drunken driving — sometimes called American’s socially accepted form of murder — has become a national 【C1】______ Every hour of

Drunken driving — sometimes called American’s socially accepted form of murder — has become a national 【C1】______ Every hour of

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问题     Drunken driving — sometimes called American’s socially accepted form of murder — has become a national 【C1】______  Every hour of every day about three Americans on average are killed by drunken  drivers, adding 【C2】______  to an incredible 250,000 over the past decade.
    A drunken driver is usually defined as one with a 0.10 blood alcohol 【C3】______  or roughly three beers, glasses of wine or 【C4】______  of whisky drank within two hours. Heavy drinking used to be a (n) 【C5】______  part of the American macho image and judges were, lenient in most courts, but the drunken 【C6】______  has recently caused so many tragedies, especially involving children, 【C7】______  public opinion is no longer tolerant.
     Twenty states have raised the 【C8】______  drinking age to 21, rather than 18. After New Jersey lowered it to 18, the number of people killed by 18-to-20-year old drivers more than 【C9】______  , so the state recently upped it back to 21.
     Reformers, however, fear 【C10】______  the drinking age will have little effect unless accompanied by educational 【C11】______  to help young people to develop "responsible attitudes" and teach them to resist 【C12】______  pressure to drink.
     Tough new laws have led to increased arrests and tests and, in some areas, to a marked 【C13】______   in fatalities. Some are also penalizing bars for 【C14】______  customers too many drinks. A tavern in Massachusetts was 【C15】______  for serving six or more double brandies to a customer who was " 【C16】______  intoxicated" and later drove off the road, killing a nine-year-old boy.
    【C17】______  the fatalities continue to occur daily, some Americans are even beginning to speak well of the 13 years of national 【C18】______  of alcohol that began in 1919, what President Hoover called the "noble 【C19】______  ". They forget that legal prohibition didn’t stop drinking, but encouraged corruption and crime.  As with the booming drug trade generally, there is no easy 【C20】______  .
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选项 A、illegal
B、legal
C、legitimate
D、lawless
答案D
解析 形容词辨析题。根据后面举的例子：新泽西州将合法饮酒年龄降为18岁后，被18至20岁之间的司机撞死的人数翻了一番。可见，本题指的是大多数的州将合法饮酒年龄提高到 21岁。首先排除A 和D ，与语境不符。其余两个选项B legal“合法的；与法律有关的”，表示“合法的”时，它表示法律所允许或规定的；C 1egitimate“合法的，有效的”，指的是按照法律，可以允许或可接受的，比如：1egitimate government“合法政府”，因此，正确答案是B 。
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