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单选题 Questions refer to the following article.
Placing a human being behind the wheel of an automible often has the same curious effect as cutting certain fibers in the brain. The result in either case is more primitive behavior. Hostile
feelings are apt to be expressed in an aggressive way.
The same man who will step aside for a stranger at a doorway will, when behind the wheel, risk an accident trying to beat another motorist through an intersection. The importance of emotional factors in automobile accidents is gaining recognition. Doctors and other scientists have concluded that the highway death toll resembles a disease epedemic and should be investigated as such.
Dr. Ross McFarland, Associate Professor of Industrial Hygiene at the Harvard University School of Public Health, said that accidents "now constitute a greater threat to the safety of large segments of the population than diseases do".
Accidents are the leading cause of death between the ages of 1 and 35. About one third of all accidental deaths and one seventh of all accidental injuries are caused by motor vehicles, Based on the present rate of vehicle registration, unless the accident rate is cut in half, one of every 10 persons in the country will be killed or injured in a traffic accident in the next 15 years.
Research to find the underlying causes of accidents and to develop ways to detect drivers who are apt to cause them is being conducted at universities and medical centers. Here are some of their findings so far.
A man drives as he lives. If he is often in trouble with collection agencies, the courts, and police, chances are he will have repeated automobile accidents. Accident repeaters usually are egocentric, exhibitionistic, resentful of authority, impulsive, and lacking in social responsibility.
As a group, they can be classified as borderline psychopathic personalities, according to Dr. Mr Farland.
The suspicion, however, that accident repeaters could be detected in advance by screening out persons with more hostile impulses is false. A study at the University of Colorado showed that there were just as many overly hostile persons among those who had no accidents as among those with repeated accidents.
Psychologists currently are studying Denver high school pupils to test the validity of this concept. They are making psychological evaluations of the pupils to see whether subsequent driving records will bear out their thesis.
The author believes that, behind the wheel of an automobile, some people act__________.

A．as though they were uncivilized
B．as though their brain fibers needed cutting
C．as though they wanted to repress (抑制) hostile feeling
D．as though they should change their attitudes from hostility to amicability

参考答案A

解析: 本题要求我们判断作者的观点，第一、二段是判断的依据。人们坐在汽车方向盘后面，所产生的效果就像脑子中的某些纤维被切除了。不管在哪种情形下，其结果是行为变得野蛮了。第二段中的。primitive behavior”也就是“uncivilized behavior”，所以作者认为人们开车时，行为变得不文明。B项意为“他们脑子中的纤维似乎需要切除，这与作者在第一段中表达的意思不一致，C项意为“似乎他们想抑制不友善的情绪”，文中讲，人们在不友善时，往往变得很冲动，C项与此意思正相反。如果人们都能把仇视的态度变为和蔼的态度，那么也就不会有这么多的交通事故，因此D项也不正确。

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单选题 Dr. MaFarland emphasizes the great menance of accidents by comparing it to__________.

A．hostile attitudes
B．psychopathic behavior
C．an epidemic
D．antisocial behavior

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单选题 Which of the following statement is true, according to the article?__________.

A．The accident rate will be reduced in the next few years
B．Motor vehicle registration will cause an increase in accidents in the future
C．Unless the accident is decreased, ten per cent of the American population will be killed or injured in motor accidents in the next 15 years
D．There is no hope that the accident rate will decrease during the next 15 years

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单选题 According to the article, studies at leading universities have shown that accident repeaters__________.

A．are in trouble with collection agencies
B．cannot be discovered on the basis of generally hostile attitudes
C．drive entirely differently from the way they usually live
D．can be detected in advance

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