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  3. Do we need laws that prevent us from running risks with our lives? If so, th

Do we need laws that prevent us from running risks with our lives? If so, th

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问题     Do we need laws that prevent us from running risks with our lives? If so, then perhaps laws are needed prohibiting the sale of cigarettes and alcoholic drinks. Both products have been known to kill people. The hazards of drinking too much alcohol are as bad or worse than the hazards of smoking too many cigarettes. All right then, let’s pass a law closing the liquor stores and the bars in this country. Let’s put an end once and for all to the ruinous disease from which as many as 10 million Americans currently suffer — alcoholism.
    But wait. We’ve already tried that. For 13 years, between 1920 and 1933, there were no liquor stores anywhere in the United States. They were shut down abolished by an amendment to the Constitution and by a law of Congress. After January 20, 1920, there was supposed to be no more manufacturing, selling, or transporting of "intoxicating liquors". Without any more liquor, people could not drink it. And if they did not drink it, how could they get drunk? There would be no more dangers to the public welfare from drunkenness and alcoholism. It was all very logical. And yet prohibition of liquor, beer, and wine did not work. Why?
    Because, law or no law, millions of people still liked to drink alcohol. And they were willing to take risks to get it. They were not about to change their tastes and habits just because of a change in the law. And gangs of liquor smugglers millions of gallons of the outlawed beverages across the Canadian and Mexican borders. Drinkers were likely to know of an illegal bar that served Mexican or Canadian liquor. Crime and drunkenness were both supposed to decline as a result of prohibition. Instead, people drank more alcohol than ever — often poisoned alcohol.
    On December 5, 1933, they removed Prohibition by approving the 21st Amendment to the Constitution. [br] During Prohibition, people______.
选项 A、lived in fear of the law
B、were willing to risk arrest for the pleasure of liquor
C、recklessly endangered their comunities
D、were respectful of the legal sanctions placed on them
答案 B
解析 细节事实题。文中第三段首句提及无论有没有法律，成百万的人们还是喜欢喝酒，他们为了得到酒宁愿冒风险。选项中“the pleasure of liquor”与“like”同义。故答案为B。
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