[单项选择]Drunken driving — sometimes called American’s socially accepted form of murder — has become a national (31) Every hour of every day about three Americans on average are killed by drunken drivers, adding (32) to an incredible 250,000 over the past decade.
A drunken driver is usually defined as one with a 0.10 blood alcohol (33) or roughly three beers, glasses of wine or (34) of whisky drank within two hours. Heavy drinking used to be a (n) (35) part of the American macho image and judges were, lenient in most courts, but the drunken (36) has recently caused so many tragedies, especially involving children, (37) public opinion is no longer tolerant.
Twenty states have raised the (38) drinking age to 21, rather than 18. After New Jersey lowered it to 18, the number of people killed by 18-to-20-year old drivers more than (39) , so the state recently upped it back to 21.

A. murder
B. butchery
C. slaughter
D. massacre

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