9.12 阅读理解 (Unit 8)
Unit 7 : a c d b a
01. prohiit the sale of cigarettes 禁止香烟的销售
02. the hazard of doing... 干......的危险
03. ruinous 破坏性的，招致毁灭的
04. an amendment to the consitution 宪法的一项修正案
05. the Volstead Act 禁酒法案
06. manufacture 制造，加工
07. public welfare 公共福利
08. logical 符合逻辑的
09. illegal drink 非法的饮用品
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 smiking 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 abilished by an amendment to the Constitution and by a law of Congress. After January 20, 1920, there was supposed to be no more manyfacturing, 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 bery 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 gans of liquor smugglers millions of gallons of the outlawed beverages across the Canadian and Mexican borders. Drinkers were licky to know of an illegal bar that served Mexican or Canadian liquor. Crime and drunkenness were both supposed to decline as a rusult of prohibition. Instead, people drank nore alcohol than ever-often poisoned alcohol.
1. Which of the following was NOT characteristic reason for the proposal of the 18th Amendment to the Constitution and the Volstead Act?
a) There would be no further danger to the public from alcoholism.
b) There would be a rise in the cost of alcoholic beverages.
c) Without liquor, people would not drink.
d) People would not become drunk of create a public nuisance.
2. During Prohibition, illegal alcohol was____.
a) sold openly
b) no longer a temptation
c) a major factor in the passage of the Volstead Act
d) brought across the Mexican and Canadian borders
3. During Prohibition, people____.
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
4. When enacting the prohibition law, government officials assumend that____.
a) every American would buy alcohol illegally
b) all criminal activities would cease
c) patrols of the Canadian border would halt the sale of alcohol
d) the social threat from drunkerness would decline
5. It can be inferred from the passage that____.
a) the Congress was wise to repeal Prohibition
b) the Prohibition Era was characterized by a decrease in crime and drunkenness
c) during Prohibition, most Americans stopped drinking
d) laws should be passed to ban the sale of alcoholic beverages
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