【正文】 t in September, eliminates the need for escape attempts. It assumes that the otherwise lawabiding citizen had a good reason for standing their ground. It also gives shooters immunity from civil suits. The law has plenty of critics. Lawenforcement officials say the duty to retreat saves lives because it discourages people from escalating conflicts. The new law seems to protect hysterical triggerfingers who feel themselves genuinely threatened when no real threat exists. The law was probably not necessary anyway. There is no carjacking crisis in the state. And juries have never been sticklers about the duty to retreat. There is widespread sympathy for the idea that, as Oliver Wendell Holmes put it in 1921, “Detached reflection cannot be demanded in the presence of an uplifted knife.” Still, the bill flew through the legislature with broad support. In a way, it simply marks a return to form for the state. Texas did not acknowledge a duty to retreat until 1973. And Texas is just the 16th state to pass such legislation since Florida did so in 2020. Florida39。 On Tuesday afternoon, as news about the Virginia Tech murders filtered out, the staff of a hamburger restaurant in downtown Austin gathered in front of a television suspended over the bar. A boyishlooking waiter speculated that if the gunman had really used a 9mm handgun, he must have had an acplice. That handgun can hold a fair number of bullets, he said, but the gunman would have had to stop to reload. It is not unusual for a Texan to be casually conversant about firearms. A state resident does not need a permit to buy a gun and guns do not have to be registered. Police are, as a result, not sure how many guns there are in the state. But the number is substantial. In a 2020 poll by the Behavioural Risk Factor Surveillance Survey, 36% of respondents said that their household had at least one. The state39。s gun laws are lax, and being more so all the time. In March Governor Rick Perry signed a bill into law that gives increased discretion to open fire. Previously, Texans were justified in killing someone only if “a reasonable person in the actor39。s law goes even further, as it presumes that any cat burglar has murderous intent. Texans largely support gun ownership, despite the fact that the state has experienced mass murders of its own. In 1966 Charles Whitman, a student at the University of Texas at Austin, shot almost 50 passersby from the top of the campus clocktower. Sixteen died. And in 1991 Gee Hennard drove his truck into a restaurant in the small town of Killeen, where he killed 23 patrons before killing himself. Before this week, those episodes were, respectively, the deadliest campus shooting and the worst mass shooting in America39。第一段由一條新聞說明了德州人對槍支的熟悉程度；第二段講述德州槍支擁有的情況；第三、四段講述德州一項新的槍支法律使得該州的槍支法更為寬松；第五段講述雖然之前有許多槍殺慘案，但是德州仍然支持強制合法。 [句子譯文 ] 星期二下午，關于弗吉尼亞科技學院殺人案的消息傳開后，奧斯汀市區(qū)一家漢堡包餐廳的員工聚集在吧臺上方的電視機前。 [句子譯文 ] 公眾 普遍認同 1921年 Oliver Wendell Holmes提出的建議， “面對已經舉起的刀時不能要求人們沒有任何反應。 [B] the murderer need an aid to reload bullets for him. [B] 兇手需要助手給自己裝子彈。 [D] the murderer was instigated by some behind the curtain. [D] 兇手受 到幕后人的指使。從這位侍者所說的話可以推斷出來，他說這種手槍只能裝下一定數量的子彈，他中間得停下來裝彈，否則不可能一下子殺死這么多人。選項中 B符合題意。 [B] The bill will encourage people to use guns more frequently. [B] 議案會鼓勵人們更頻繁地使用槍支。 [D] The bill will ensure the duty to retreat. [D] 議案保證了退卻義務。文章第三段提到，該州長簽署的議案去除了辨別是否有逃跑企圖的需要，也就是說不管對方是否想要逃跑，公民都可以開槍。因此，選項 B、 D陳述是不正確的， C 選項是正確陳述。 the new gun law of Texas, the lawenforcement officials? attitude can be said to be_____ ，法律執(zhí)行官員的態(tài)度可以說是____ [A] supportive. [A] 支持的。 [C] indifferent. [C] 不關心的。 [答案 ]B [難度系數 ] ☆ [分析 ]細節(jié)題。而新法律沒有確保這種退卻義務。因此，他們的態(tài)度是反對的， B選項為正確答案。 [B] that people will need to protect themselves when facing crisis. [B] 人們會在面臨危機的時候保護自己。 [D] that people will retreat when founding the danger. [D] 人們發(fā)現危險時會撤退。 Oliver Wendell Holmes 所說的話為： “面對已經舉起的刀時不能要求人們沒有任何反應。這句話引申到槍支上，也就是說如果人們