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话题提分练22　选修7　Unit 2 科学与技术 限时20分钟 阅读理解 A　(2022·新高考Ⅱ卷)　体裁:说明文　话题:现代技术　难度:★★★☆☆ 　　Over the last seven years, most states have banned texting by drivers, and public service campaigns have tried a wide range of methods to persuade people to put down their phones when they are behind the wheel. Yet the problem, by just about any measure, appears to be getting worse. Americans are still texting while driving, as well as using social networks and taking photos. Road accidents, which had fallen for years, are now rising sharply. That is partly because people are driving more, but Mark Rosekind, the chief of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, said distracted (分心) driving was “only increasing, unfortunately”. “Big change requires big ideas,” he said in a speech last month, referring broadly to the need to improve road safety. So to try to change a distinctly modern behavior, lawmakers and public health experts are reaching back to an old approach: They want to treat distracted driving like drunk driving. An idea from lawmakers in New York is to give police officers a new device called the Textalyzer. It would work like this: An officer arriving at the scene of a crash could ask for the phones of the drivers and use the Textalyzer to check in the operating system for recent activity. The technology could determine whether a driver had just texted, emailed or done anything else that is not allowed under New York􀆳s hands⁃free driving laws. “We need something on the books that can change people􀆳s behavior,” said Félix W. Ortiz, who pushed for the state􀆳s 2001 ban on hand⁃held devices by drivers. If the Textalyzer bill becomes law, he said, “people are going to be more afraid to put their hands on the cell phone.” 为了减少急剧上升的交通事故,纽约试图通过引入文本分析仪(Textalyzer)来制止司机在驾车时使用手机。 1.Which of the following best describes the ban on drivers􀆳 texting in the US? A. Ineffective. B. Unnecessary. C. Inconsistent. D. Unfair. 答案与解析　A　推理判断题。根据文章第二段的主旨句“Yet the problem, by just abo