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West London, Friday night, 9 pm. In the Redemption bar, music hums and candles flicker. A barman shakes cocktails under a neon s

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问题    West London, Friday night, 9 pm. In the Redemption bar, music hums and candles flicker. A barman shakes cocktails under a neon sign. But the noisy drinking often associated with British pubs at the weekend is absent. Although the cocorita is served, it contains no alcohol. Redemption is one of a small but growing number of drinkeries that serve no liquor.
   Worries about drinking are on the rise. Hospitals complain that alcohol-related admissions are soaring; some police chiefs have called for new powers to tackle disorderly drunks. On February 4th the Home Office announced a new plan that ought to stop retailers from selling alcoholic drinks below cost—something they occasionally do to attract shoppers. This, said Norman Baker, the Liberal Democrat, would "stop the worst examples of very cheap and harmful drink".
   Yet Britain is in many ways becoming more abstemious. In 2001 the average household consumed 1. 5 litres of alcoholic drinks a week; by 2011, the figure had fallen to 1. 1 litres. The young in particular seem to be giving up boozing: over the same period, the number of young men drinking heavily at least once a week fell from 37% to 22%; women became less sozzled, too. Dry bars benefit from this fad: Redemption’s customers doubled between December and January.
   Abstemious bars have also opened in Liverpool and Nottingham. Unlike many cafes, they stay open late. They simulate bars in other ways, with live music, comedy acts and films to pull in customers. When the lights go down and the DJ plays at Sobar, which opened in Nottingham in Januar-y, it looks like any city bar, hopes Alex Gillmore, the manager. Redemption misses the huge profits made on alcohol, but temperance brings its own benefits. Business remains steady throughout the week rather than spiking at the weekend, says Catherine Salway, its founder.
   Sobar is linked to a do-gooding drug and alcohol charity. But ordinary bars are becoming a little drier, too, out of business sense rather than temperance principle. Pubs can make almost as much selling food as drink—and more are serving it. Both in pubs and at home, less boozy drinks are becoming popular. Total sales of beer by volume dropped slightly in the year to January, but those of the weaker kinds jumped 32%, according to a market-research firm. Sales of "adult" sparkling soft drinks are growing too. Perhaps the cafe-culture British politicians have so long yearned for is at last emerging.
According to Paragraph 4, dry bars mainly live on______.
选项 A、regular drinkers
B、live performances
C、extravagant customers
D、abstemious consumers
答案D
解析 细节题。定位到第四段。题干关键词dry bars“戒酒酒吧”=abstemious bars“节制酒吧”，而通过首段我们已知Redemption就是“节制酒吧”，故而得知Redemption=abstemious bar=dry bar。从而判断答案为该段倒数第二句“Redemption misses the huge profits made on alcohol，but temperance brings its own benefits．”其中，Redemption=dry bars；brings its own benefits“带来收益”=live on“靠……为生”；故答案关键词为temperance“节制”，与之相近的选项为[D]abstemious consumers“有节制的消费者”。其余几项分别为：[A]regular drinkers“固定的酒徒”；[B]live performances“现场演奏”；[C]extravagant customers“挥霍无度的顾客”。这几项均无法与temperance形成替换，故而排除。综上，本题选[D]。
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