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P7
—法学
类
Passage 7
There
is
extraordinary
exposure
in
the
United
States
to
the
risks
of
injury
and
death
from
motor vehicle than 80
percent of all households own passenger cars or
light trucks
and each of these is
driven an average of more than
11
，
000 miles each one-half of
fatally injured drivers have a blood
alcohol concentration (BAC) of 0.1 percent or the
average adult
，
over five ounces of 80 proof spirits would have to be consumed over a short period
of time to
attain these third of drivers who have been
drinking
，
but fewer than 4 percent
of all
drivers
，
demonstrate these levels.1)Although less than 1 percent of drivers with BACs of 0.1
percent or more are
involved in fatal crashes
，
the probability of their involvements is 27 times
higher than for those without alcohol
in their are a number of different approaches to
reducing
injuries
in
which
drinking
plays
a
on
the
observation
that
excessive
consumption correlates with the total
alcohol consumption of a country
’
s population
，
it has been
suggested that higher taxes on alcohol
would reduce the heaviest drinkers would be
taxed the most
，
anyone who drinks at all would be punished by this approach.
To
make
drinking
and
driving
a
criminal
offense
is
an
approach
directed
only
at
drinking
some
states
，
the law empowers police to request breath tests of drivers committing any
traffic offense and higher BAC can be
the basis for National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration
estimates
，
however
，
that even with increased arrests
，
there are about 700 violations
for every
this level there is little evidence that laws are
effective ways to reduce drunk
Britain
，
motor vehicle accidents fell 25 percent immediately following implementation
of the Road Safety Act in 1967. 2) As
Britishers increasingly recognized that they could
drink and
not be
stopped
，
the effectiveness declined
，
although in the following three years the death-rate
seldom
reached that observed in the seven years prior to
the Act.
Whether
penalties
for
driving
with
a
high
BAC
or
excessive
taxation
on
consumption
of
alcoholic
drinks
will
deter
the
excessive
drinker
responsible
for
most
accidents
is
thing is
clear
，
however
：
unless we deal with automobile and highway safety and reduce accidents
in which alcoholic
drinking plays a role
，
many will continue to die.
author is primarily concerned with____.
[A] interpreting the results of surveys on traffic accidents
[B] reviewing the effectiveness of attempts to reduce drunk driving
[C] analyzing the causes of the large number of annual traffic deaths
[D] making an international comparison of experience with drunk driving
can be inferred that the 1967 Road Safety Act in Britain____.
[A] changed an existing law to lower the BAC level which defined drunk driving
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