[精品]2019学年高二英语上学期期中试题 新人教版 新版(1)(7)

精品试卷been almost four decades since more than 100 Americans died in a fire.

But even with such successes, the United States still has one of the worst fire death rates in the world. Safety experts say the problem is neither money nor technology, but the indifference(无所谓) of a country that just will not take fires seriously enough.

American fire departments are some of the world’s fastest and best-equipped. They have to be. The United States has twice Japan’s population, and 40 times as many fires. It spends far less on preventing fires than on fighting them. And American fire-safety lessons are aimed almost entirely at children, who die in large numbers in fires but who, against popular beliefs, start very few of them.

Experts say the error is an opinion that fires are not really anyone’s fault. That is not so in other countries, where both public education and the law treat fires as either a personal failing or a crime. Japan has many wood houses; of the 48 fires in world history that burned more than 10,000 buildings, Japan has had 27. Punishment for causing a big fire can be as severe as life imprisonment.

In the United States, most education dollars are spent in elementary schools. But, the lessons are aimed at too limited a number of people; just 9 percent of all fire deaths are caused by children playing with matches.

The United States continues to depend more on technology than laws or social pressure. There are smoke detectors in 85 percent of all homes. Some local building laws now require home sprinklers (喷水装置). New heaters and irons shut themselves off if they are tipped（倾斜）.

33. Which is the proper explanation of the underlined sentence?

A. There has been no big fire in the US in recent 40 years that leads to high death rate.

B. There have been several big fires in the US in recent 40 years that lead to high death rate.

C. There has been only one big fire in the US in recent 40 years that led to high death rate.

D. The fire in Kentucky in 1977 made only a few people killed.

34. The reason why so many Americans die in fires is that _____.

A. they took no interest in new technology

B. they did not pay great attention to preventing fires

C. they showed indifference to fighting fires

D. they did not spend enough money on fire equipment

35. It can be inferred from the passage that ______.

A. fire safety lessons should not be aimed only at American children

B. American children have not received enough education of fire safety lessons

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