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It’s a rough world out there. Step outside and you could break a leg slipping on your doormat. Light up the stove and you could

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问题    It’s a rough world out there. Step outside and you could break a leg slipping on your doormat. Light up the stove and you could burn down the house. Luckily, if the doormat or stove failed to warn of coming disaster, a successful lawsuit might compensate you for your troubles. Or so the thinking has gone since the early 1980s, when juries began holding more companies liable for their customers’ misfortunes.
   Feeling threatened, companies responded by writing ever-longer warning labels, trying to anticipate every possible accident. Today, stepladders carry labels several inches long that warn, among other things, that you might—surprise! —fall off. The label on a child’s Batman cape cautions that the toy " does not enable user to fly".
   While warnings are often appropriate and necessary—the dangers of drug interactions, for example—and many are required by state or federal regulations, it isn’t clear that they actually protect the manufactures and sellers from liability if a customer is injured. About 50 percent of the companies lose when injured customers take them to court.
   Now the tide appears to be turning. As personal injury claims continue as before, some courts are beginning to side with defendants, especially in cases where a warning label probably wouldn’t have changed anything. In May, Julie Nimmons, president of Schutt Sports in Illinois, successfully fought a lawsuit involving a football player who was paralyzed in a game while wearing a Schutt helmet. " We’re really sorry he has become paralyzed, but helmets aren’t designed to prevent those kinds of injures, " says Nimmons. The jury agreed that the nature of the game, not the helmet, was the reason for the athlete’s injury. At the same time, the American Law Institute—a group of judges, lawyers, and academics whose recommendations carry substantial weight—issued new guidelines for tort law stating that companies need not warn customers of obvious dangers or bombard them with a lengthy list of possible ones. " Important information can get buried in a sea of trivialities, " says a law professor at Cornell Law School who helped draft the new guidelines. If the moderate end of the legal community has its way, the information on products might actually be provided for the benefit of customers and not as protection against legal liability.
Manufacturers as mentioned in the passage tend to______.
选项 A、satisfy customers by writing long warnings on products
B、become honest in describing the inadequacies of their products
C、make the best use of labels to avoid legal liability
D、feel obliged to view customers’ safety as their first concern
答案C
解析 细节理解题。由第二段“Feeling threatened，companies responded by writing ever-longer warning labels，trying to anticipate every possible accident．”可知，公司通过撰写比以前更长的警示标签，企图预料各种可能发生的事故，以规避法律责任。故选C。
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