专四专八考试

【单选题】Drunken driving — sometimes calledAmerican’s socially accepted form of murder — has become a national (31) Every hour of every day about threeAmericans on average are killed by drunken drivers, adding (32) to an incredible 250,000 over the past decade.

A、drunken driver is usually defined as one with a 0.10 blood alcohol (33) or roughly three beers, glasses of wine or (34) of whisky drank within two hours. Heavy drinking used to be a (n) (35) part of theAmerican macho image and judges were, lenient in most courts, but the drunken (36) has recently caused so many tragedies, especially involving children, (37) public opinion is no longer tolerant.
Twenty states have raised the (38) drinking age to 21, rather than 18.After New Jersey lowered it to 18, the number of people killed by 18-to-20-year old drivers more than (39) , so the state recently upped it back to 21.
Reformers, however, fear (40) the drinking age will have little effect unless accompanied by educational (41) to help young people to develop "responsible attitudes" and teach them to resist (42) pressure to drink.
Tough new laws have led to increased arrests and tests and, in some areas, to a marked (43) in fatalities. Some are also penalizing bars for (44) customers too many drinks.
A、tavern in Massachusetts was (45) for serving six or more double brandies to a customer who was " (46) intoxicated" and later drove off the road, killing a nine-year-old boy.
(47) the fatalities continue to occur daily, someAmericans are even beginning to speak well of the 13 years of national (48) of alcohol that began in 1919, what President Hoover called the "noble (49) ". They forget that legal prohibition didn’t stop drinking, but encouraged corruption and crime.As with the booming drug trade generally, there is no easy (50) .

A、illegalB、legal
C、legitimate D、lawless
网考网参考答案：D
网考网解析：
形容词辨析题。根据后面举的例子：新泽西州将合法饮酒年龄降为18岁后，被18至20岁之间的司机撞死的人数翻了一番。可见，本题指的是大多数的州将合法饮酒年龄提高到 21岁。首先排除[A]和[D]，与语境不符。其余两个选项[B]legal“合法的；与法律有关的”，表示“合法的”时，它表示法律所允许或规定的；[C]1egitimate“合法的，有效的”，指的是按照法律，可以允许或可接受的，比如：1egitimate government“合法政府”，因此，正确答案是[B]。 document.getElementById("warp").style.display="none"; document.getElementById("content").style.display="block"; 查看试题解析出处>>