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(審判的) 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：選C。細(xì)節(jié)理解題。由文章第二段可知，MADD的目的是要讓人們引以為戒，意識到酒后駕車的危險性，并加強(qiáng)法律效力。

7. 解析：選A。詞義猜測題。由下文講述的Candy Lightner所做的事情可知，她想讓這場不必要的車禍能起到警戒他人的積極作用，這樣類似的事故會減少，也就意味著女兒的死有了價值。

8. 解析：選C。細(xì)節(jié)理解題。由倒數(shù)第二段第一句可知，Candy Lightner為了實(shí)現(xiàn)目標(biāo)曾做出許多努力——參加電視節(jié)日，向國會提議以及給不同職業(yè)的人演說等。

9. 解析：選B。推理判斷題。文章在第三段提到酒后駕車者出事后經(jīng)常以“自己喝醉了，什么都不知道”為由而逃避罪責(zé)，說明在MADD成立之前，酒后駕車沒有引起人們足夠的重視。

10. 解析：選D。標(biāo)題歸納題。全文主要講述了Candy Lightner創(chuàng)辦“母親反對醉酒駕車協(xié)會”的原因和發(fā)展情況，因此D項作標(biāo)題最佳。

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