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In 1980, Candy Lightner's 13－year－old daughter Cad was killed by a drunk driver as she walked down a suburban street in California. “I promised myself on the day of Cad's death that I would fight to make this needless accident count_for something positive in the years ahead，”Candy Lightner later wrote.

The drunk driver received a two－year prison sentence. However, he avoided prison by serving time in a work camp and a halfway house. Ms. Lightner was very angry about that and so organized Mothers Against Drunk Drivers(MADD), which later changed to Mothers Against Drunk Driving. The aim of her organization was to raise public awareness of the serious nature of drunk driving and to promote tough legislation against the crime.

Before Ms. Lightner's MADD, intoxication (醉酒), including drunk driving, was not taken seriously. Intoxication was often used as an excuse for otherwise unacceptable behaviour: “I didn't know what I was doing—I was drunk.”

Candy Lightner appeared on major television shows, spoke before the US Congress, addressed professional and business, groups, and worked tirelessly for years to change public attitudes, change judicial(审判的) behaviour, and promote tough new legislation. Ms. Lightner left MADD because the organization that she herself created is changing its focus. “I didn't start MADD to deal with alcohol. I started MADD to deal with the issue of drunk driving.”

The President of the United States awarded her the President's Volunteer Action Award and she was the subject of the movie “Mothers Against Drunk Drivers: the Candy Lightner Story”．

6. One of the purposes of MADD was to ________.

A. improve drivers' driving skills

B. make new laws against crimes

C. tell drivers to avoid drunk driving

D. warn people not to drink alcohol

7. What does the underlined part “count for ” in Paragraph 1 mean?

A. To be valuable for. B. To explain.

C. To take the place of. D. To control.

8. How did Ms. Lightner realize MADD's goals?

a. By talking on TV.

b. By giving a talk to businessmen.

c. By giving suggestions to the US Congress.

d. By applying for a job with the government.

A. a, c, d B. a, b, d C. a, b, c D. b, c, d

9. We can learn from the passage that________.

A. the drunk driver had not been caught

B. drunk driving didn't receive enough attention before MADD

C. Candy Lightner played a leading role in a film

D. MADD didn't get much support from society

10. What would be the BEST title for the passage?

A. What is MADD?

B. How to stop drunk driving?

C. New law against drunk driving

D. Candy Lightner and her MADD

6. 解析：选C。细节理解题。由文章第二段可知，MADD的目的是要让人们引以为戒，意识到酒后驾车的危险性，并加强法律效力。

7. 解析：选A。词义猜测题。由下文讲述的Candy Lightner所做的事情可知，她想让这场不必要的车祸能起到警戒他人的积极作用，这样类似的事故会减少，也就意味着女儿的死有了价值。

8. 解析：选C。细节理解题。由倒数第二段第一句可知，Candy Lightner为了实现目标曾做出许多努力——参加电视节日，向国会提议以及给不同职业的人演说等。

9. 解析：选B。推理判断题。文章在第三段提到酒后驾车者出事后经常以“自己喝醉了，什么都不知道”为由而逃避罪责，说明在MADD成立之前，酒后驾车没有引起人们足够的重视。

10. 解析：选D。标题归纳题。全文主要讲述了Candy Lightner创办“母亲反对醉酒驾车协会”的原因和发展情况，因此D项作标题最佳。

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    It was not until 1978 when Guo Fenglian, head of the village, paid a visit to the US that China's model
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with small ones," said Guo. "American farmers' life quality also impressed me a lot. Every day they had
two cups of milk, which is something we don't have even m our wildest dreams."
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first Deputy Prime Minister Deng Xiaoping who was planning China's reform and opening up policy then.
"Through opening our doors, we would not only take advantage of foreign funds (资金), but also create
job opportunities and cultivate (培养) talents."
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(投资) here and its success attracted other world brands into exploring the Chinese market. So far China
has for 15 years taken in the world's second biggest foreign investment, following the US, to help set the
country in a fast growth.
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at the end of the 1980s as many people worried the country would turn to capitalism.
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said Deng.
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world," said William Keller, chief manager of a Swiss pharmaceutical (制药的) company.

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in 1978.

[ ]

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B. delighted
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[ ]

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B. Japan
C. Swiss
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[ ]

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B. in 1980
C. in 1981
D. at the end of the 1980s

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[ ]

A. Whether it helps develop socialist productive forces.
B. Whether it strengthens the overall capacity of the country.
C. Whether it brings about better investment and more profit.
D. Whether it improves the peoples living standards.

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