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In some ways, the United States has made spectacular progress. Fires no long
In some ways, the United States has made spectacular progress. Fires no long
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2025-03-21
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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. [br] Although the fire death rate has declined, the United States______.
选项
A、still has the worst fire death rate in the world
B、is still alert to the fire problem
C、is still training a large number of safety experts
D、is still confronted with the serious fire problem
答案
A
解析
本题问虽然美国火灾死亡率下降了,但是美国仍然如何。文章第二段第一句指出,虽然美国在消防领域取得了很大进步,但是,它还是世界上火灾死亡率最高的国家之一。另外,第三段第三句指出,美国的人口只比日本多一倍,但火灾发生率却是日本的40倍。因此,本题的正确答案应是A“美国仍是世界上火灾死亡率最高的国家”。
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