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Drunken driving- sometimes called America’s socially accepted form of murder

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问题     Drunken driving- sometimes called America’s socially accepted form of murder- has become a national epidemic (流行病) . Every hour of every day about three Americans on average are killed by drunken drivers.
   A drunken driver is usually defined as one with a 0.10 blood alcohol content or roughly three beers, glasses of wine or shots of whisky drunk within two hours. Heavy drinking used to be an acceptable part of the American man image and judges were tolerant in most courts, but the drunken slaughter has recently caused so many well-publicized tragedies, especially involving young children, that public opinion is no longer so tolerant.
   Twenty states have raised the legal drinking age to 21, reversing a trend in the 1960s to reduce it to 18. After New Jersey lowered it to 18, the number of people killed by 18-20-year-old drivers more than doubled, so the state recently upped it back to 21. Reformers, however, fear raising the drinking age will have little effect unless accomplished by educational programs to help young people to develop "responsible attitudes" about drinking and teach them to resist pressure to drink.
   Tough new laws have led to increased arrests and tests and, in many areas already, to a marked decline in fatalities. Some states are also penalizing bars for serving customers too many drinks. A tavern (酒店主) in Massachusetts was fined for serving six or more double brandies to a customer who was "obviously intoxicated" and later drove off the road, killing a nine-year-old boy.
   As the fatalities continue to occur daily in every state, some Americans are even beginning to speak well of the 13 years of national prohibition of alcohol that began in 1919. They forget that legal prohibition didn’t stop drinking, but encouraged political corruption and organized crime. As with the booming drug trade generally, there is no easy solution. [br] Statistics issued in New Jersey suggested that______
选项 A、many drivers were not of legal age
B、young people were often bad drivers
C、the level of drinking increased in the 1960s
D、the legal drinking age should be raised
答案 D
解析 根据文章第三段“After New Jersey lowered it to 18，the number of people killed bv 18-20-year-old drivers more than doubled，so the state recently upped it back to 21．”可知，新泽西 州把饮酒年龄降到18岁以后，18至20岁的驾驶者造成的死亡人数增加了一倍多，因此该州 最近把饮酒的年龄提高到21岁。所以新泽西的数据可以表明有必要提高法定饮酒年龄。据此 判断，答案是D。
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