本题是2011年上半年学位英语教材第20单元的课后阅读理解。

本题是2010年下半年学位英语教材第20单元的课后阅读理解。

本题是2009年下半年学位英语教材第20单元的课后阅读理解。

本题是2010年上半年学位英语教材第20单元的课后阅读理解。

With an increasing number of lives being taken each year, there is a call to control the gun, to restrict its use and the ease with which it may be purchased in many parts of the country, or to be rid of it altogether. However there are also many Americans who, despite the shocking death rate, feel that we have the right to won firearms.

Opponents of strict gun controls argue that the right to own firearms is guaranteed by the U.S. constitution. The claim is made that, without firearms, we would be more vulnerable（易受攻击的） than ever to criminal violence. The privately owned gun helped us to win our freedom in the first place, they say; it can help us preserve that freedom today.

Further, opponents of gun control tell us that gun-control laws don’t work because the people who cause most of the trouble ---- the criminals ---- simply don’t bother to obey them. But the proponents of control reply by producing statistics to show that control laws have kept the crime rates down in other nations. Strictly enforced controls, they believe, can do the same thing here.

Basically, the anti-control people feel that to call for and make laws against the gun is to move in the wrong direction. They recognize that there is much violence in much society and know that something must be done about it. But they argue that when the gun is involved in violence, it is not, in itself, responsible for the trouble. A gun, after all, is an inanimate（死气沉沉的） object that is incapable of acting on its own. The fault lies with the people who misuse it ---- the criminals, the mentally ill, the emotionally unstable, the intoxicated（喝醉的）. It will do no good, then, to move against the gun. Violence will be reduced only if we restrict the people who pull the trigger（扳机）.

3.   The underlined word ‘proponents’ in the second sentence of Paragraph Three most probably means____.

A. supporters     B. instructors     C. authorities      D. researchers

4.   It is implied in this passage that _____.

A.        owning a gun is a guarantee of personal safety

B.        gun control may lead to helplessness on behalf of the victim of violence

C.        gun control can help reduce crime rates

D.       owning a gun doesn’t help in case of violence

1.   Which of the following is in favor of people’s owning guns?

A.        The U.S. Constitution indicates that the citizen can own a gun.

B.        The gun is something to defend people’s freedom with.

C.        The gun itself is incapable of action.

D.       All of the above.

5.   According to the passage, opponents of gun control think that the proper way to reduce violence is ____.

A.   to    enforce strict gun control      

B.  to    allow guns to be sold to all

C.   to    get rid of all who fire guns

D. to     limit the people who fire the gun

A gun, after all, is an inanimate object that is incapable of acting on its own. The fault lies with the people who misuse it—the criminals, the metally ill, the emotionally unstable, the intoxicated.

毕竟，枪支是没有生命的物体，不能够自行采取行动。责任应归咎于那些滥用枪支的人：犯罪分子、精神病人、情绪不稳定的人以及醉酒的人。

1.  All of the above2. misuse them

3.The word “proponents” “ supporters”

4. reduce crime rates

5. to limit the people who fire the gun

【阅读翻译】

因为美国的公民可以自由使用枪支，死亡人数逐年增加。有人呼吁应该限制枪支的使用，并且停止全国大部分地区的枪支买卖，或者集体销毁他们。然而虽然面对骇人听闻的死亡数字，仍然有许多美国人觉得他们有权利拥有自己的手枪。

反对禁止使用枪支的人认为，拥有枪支的权利是有美国宪法保障的。他们声称如果没有枪支他们会更容易受到犯罪分子的暴力。他们说拥有私人枪支帮助他们捍卫他们的自由。枪支可能保证他们今天的自由。

拥有枪支的支持的人认为，拥有枪支的权利是有美国宪法保障的。他们声称如果没有枪支他们会更容易受到犯罪分子的暴力。他们说拥有私人枪支帮助他们捍卫他们的自由。枪支可能保证他们今天的自由。

    拥有枪支的支持者们还说，枪支拥有的发之所以不能很好的被贯彻，是因为大部分麻烦是由罪犯们引起的，拥有枪支让他们不向罪犯们屈服。反对枪支拥有者们有数据说明，在其他不能自由使用枪支国家，犯罪率比较低。所以他们认为严格强制枪支的使用会得到同样的效果。

    基本上，反控制枪支法的人们认为，呼吁用法律来制约枪支是错误的。他们认为在现在社会里，仍然有许多暴力存在，所以必须有些东西来抗拒这些暴力。但是他们说，如果枪支卷入了暴力，并不是枪支本身，枪支不应该为其负责任。毕竟，枪支是无生命的东西，他不能控制本身的行为，责任在于滥用枪支的人---罪犯，有精神疾病的，情感上有缺陷的，或者是醉鬼。所以枪支拥有并没有什么好处，如果想减少暴力，只有去禁止那些叩响扳机的人。

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