2012年3月公共英语三级考试真题及答案(阅读理解Text2)

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2012年3月公共英语三级考试真题及答案(阅读理解Text2)

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MothersAgainst Drunk Driving(MADD)has launched a new public awareness campaign aimedat Canadian Justice Minister Irwin Cotler.“Enough is Enough”advocatesdropping the Criminal Code’s blood alcohol concentration(BAC)limit from 0.08 to 0.05 percent，to“protectinnocent drivers on our roads.”MADD Canada CEO Andrew Murie thinks tllat lowering the BAC limitcould result in a 6-to-18 percent reduction in crash deaths.Butquestions have been raised about the science behind that campaign.

MADDselectively cites a report published in 2002 by Robert Mann of the MentalHealth

Centre.Mama，in turn，had gotthose numbers from two separate studies whose data was selected from Sweden andAustralia.The conclusions in Mann’s report seem to ignore the Swedish authors’numerouswarnings and cautions，as well as the limitations in the Australian study.First，theAustralian study examined the effectiveness of breath testing，not loweredBAC levels，on fatal traffic crashes.Also.thatresearch was started in 1976 when“liquid lunches”were far more common.What’s more.the Australian data varied：whereas the state ofQueensland saw the 18 percent decline in fatal accidents cited by MADD’s Murie，inneighboring New South Wales，fatal accidents decreased just 8 percent.

It isalso reported by the Ontario Community Council that the majority of drivers inalcoholrelated fatal erashes are repeat offenders with BACs over 0.15percent-meaning that the problem is drivers who repeatedly get behind the wheelwith BAC levels twice the legal limit.not social drinkerswho consume a glass of wine or tw0.This makes MADD’sconcern seem wasteful，given the downward trend in alcohol-related tramc deaths.

TheCanada Safety Council，the Canadian Council of Motor Transport Administrators and theTraffic Injury Research Foundation take issue with MADD’s campaign.Even theOntario Community Council has determined that lowering the BAC would mean morework for police and the courts.

But toMADD’s Murie，the math question is simple：“If you lower BAClimits，regardless to what

level，you’ll saveCanadian lives.”Unfortunately，the math doesn’t quite add up.

51.MADDlaunched a public awareness campaign in order to_______.

[A]criticizethe Justice Minister

[B]improve BAC measurement

[C]restrictdrivers’access to alcohol

[D]revise the law regarding drunk driving

52.From thetext we learn that MADD cites a report that________.

[A]justifiesits new campaign

[B]is favored by the authorities

[C]sumsup major public concerns

[D]is mentioned in two other studies

53.It isimplied in the text that Mann’s report is unreliable because_______.

[A]itwas based on some unsound research

[B]itgot its data from two inconsistent studies

[C]itwas written in conditions no longer valid

[D]itignored the limitations of the studies cited

54.The textindicates that MADD’s campaign_______.

[A]willnot affect social drinkers

[B]mayturn out to be of little value

[C]isgoing to reduce governmental labor

[D]haswon support from some organizations

55.The writer’sattitude towards the campaign is_______.

[A]satirical

[B]scornful

[C]suspicious

[D]supportive

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反对醉驾母亲协会发起了一场新的公共意识运动，这场运动针对的是加拿大司法部长欧文·科特勒。为了保护路上无辜的司机。“适可而止”运动提倡将有犯罪代码之称的血液酒精浓度的限制由0.08%下调至0 05%。加拿大反对醉驾母亲协会首席执行官安朱·梅利认为，调低血液酒精浓度限制有助于减少6%到l8%的交通死亡人数。但随之这场运动背后的科学性问题也被提出来了。

反对醉驾母亲协会随机引用了心理健康中心罗伯特·曼于2002年发表的一篇报告中的内容。然而，曼所得到的数据主要来自瑞典和澳大利亚两个独立的研究中心。报告中后的结论似乎忽略了瑞典作者大量的警告和提醒，同样也忽视了澳大利亚人研究中的不足。首先，澳大利亚研究的侧重点是呼吸检验，而不是降低血液酒精浓度的限制水平，在避免致命交通事故中所起到的作用。此外，这一研究开始于1976年，当时以酒为主的“液体午餐”非常普遍。另外，具体情况不同，澳大利亚的数据也有一定的变化。例如，反对醉驾母亲协会的梅利提到，昆士兰州致命交通事故的比例降低了18%，而它的邻居新南威尔士州则仅仅降低了8%。

安大略湖社区理事的报道称，由酒精引起致命交通事故的大部分司机都是惯犯，其本身血液酒精浓度都超过了0.15%。这意味着，经常开车的司机的血液酒精浓度是法定血液酒精浓度的两倍，他们不是喝一两杯红酒的普通人。这使得反对醉驾母亲协会所关心的内容显得有点浪费时间，因为由酒精引起的致命交通事故呈下降趋势。

加拿大安全理事会、加拿大汽车运输管理者理事会及交通损伤研究机构也加入到了反对醉驾母亲协会所提倡的这一运动中，尽管安大略湖社区理事会已经意识到降低血液酒精浓度意味着警方和法庭将增加工作量。但对于加拿大反对醉驾母亲协会的梅利来说，计算方法非常简单，即“如果降低血液酒精浓度的限制，不管降低多少，都是在挽救加拿大人的生命。”不幸的是，这种计算方法不能简单相加。

51.C【精析】细节题。根据段第二句“‘Enough is Enough’advocatesdropping the Criminal Code’s blood alcohol concentration(BAC)limit from 0.08 to 0.05 percent…”可知，“适可而止”运动主要目的是为了降低血液酒精浓度限制，即限制司机对酒精的摄取，故选c。

52.D 【精析】细节题。根据第二段、二句“MADD selectively cites a report published in 2002 by Robert Mann...from two separate studies whose data was selected from Sweden and Australia.”可知，反对醉驾母亲协会引用的是罗伯特·曼发表的内容，

而罗伯特·曼所获得的数据信息来源于瑞典和澳大利亚两个不同研究，由此可知，反对醉驾母亲协会所引用的内容在其他两项研究中提到过，故选D。

53.D 【精析】细节题。根据第二段第三句“The conclusions in Mann’Sreport seem to ignore the Swedish authors’numerouswarnings and cautions，as well as the limitations in theAustralianstudy.”可知，曼的报告之所以不可信是因为报告忽略了所引用研究中的不足，故选D。

54.B【精析】推理题。根据文中第三段内容可知，交通事故发生主要是因为开车司机血液酒精浓度含量超标，而不是因为他们偶尔喝了一两杯红酒，因此反对醉驾母亲协会的担心是多余的，由此可推知其倡导的运动有可能会毫无意义，故选B。

55.C 【精析】作者观点题。根据全文作者对这场运动提出的一系列问题及文章后一段作者表示梅利的计算方法不能简单相加可知，作者对此事持有怀疑的态度，故选C。

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