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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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2014-04-23
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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.
It can be inferred from the passage that______.
选项
A、fire safety lessons should be aimed at American adults
B、American children have not received enough education of fire safety lessons
C、Japan is better equipped with fire facilities than the Untied States
D、America’s large population accounts for high fire frequency
答案
A
解析
本题是一道暗示引申题。问我们可以从文章中推断出什么。针对四个选项,利用查阅式阅读法,结合原文内容,我们发现文章第三段第五句指出,美国的防火安全教育几乎全部是针对儿童进行的,虽然儿童在火灾中的死亡率高得出奇,但是,他们的火灾肇事率却很低,这与大众的看法正好相反。换言之,这种教育找错了对象。第五段也指出,美国人花很多钱对小学生进行火灾安全教育,选择的对象过于狭隘,因为,只有9%的火灾死亡人数是由于孩子玩火柴引起的。因此,本题的正确答案应是A“火灾安全教育应该针对美国成年人”。
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