Drunken driving () his life.
A.lost
B.spent
C.deprived
D.cost
D、cost
A.lost
B.spent
C.deprived
D.cost
D、cost
The problem of drunken driving is difficult to solve because ______.
A.alcohol is easily accessible
B.drinking is linked to organized crime
C.legal prohibiting has already failed
D.legislation alone is not sufficient
Public opinion regarding drunken driving has changed because ______.
A.detailed statistics are now available
B.the news media have brought the problem to everybody's attention
C.judges are given more severe sentences
D.drivers are more conscious of their image
A drunken driver is usually defined as one with a 0.10 blood content or roughly three beers, glasses of wine or shots of whisky drank 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 to 20-year-old drivers more than doubled, so the state recently upped is back to 21.
Reformers, however, fear raising the drinking age will have little effect unless accompanied by educational programs to help young people to develop "responsible attitudes" about drinking and teach them to resist peer 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 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 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, what President Hoover called the "noble experiment". 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.
Drunken driving has become a major problem in America because ______.
A.most Americans are heavy drinkers
B.Americans are now less shocked by road accident
C.accident attract too much publicity
D.drinking is a socially accepted habit in America
Laws recently introduced in some states have ______.
A.reduced the number of convictions
B.resulted in fewer serious accidents
C.prevented bars from serving drunken customers
D.specified the amount drivers can drink
A.was driving
B.has been driving
C.had been driving
D.drove
A. go out driving for twelve times
B. spend at least six hours driving
C. drive for two hour blocks of time
D. get half an hour driving
(If) traffic problems are not solved soon, (driving) (in) cities (becomes) impossible.
A.If
B.driving
C.in
D.becomes
Almost everyone failed______on the first day.
A.pass his driving test
B.to have passed his driving test
C.to pass his driving test
D.passing his driving test
You cannot be______ careful when driving a car on the superhighway.
A.very
B.too
C.so
D.enough
You'll fail in the driving test_________you have more practice.
A.if
B.unless
C.when
D.after