[单项选择]More than a year ago, the city announced that police would crack down on illegally parked cars and that resources would be diverted from writing speeding tickets to ticketing illegally parked cars. But no crackdown has taken place. The police chief claims that resources have had to be diverted from writing speeding tickets to combating the city’s staggering drug problem. Yet the police are still writing as many speeding tickets as ever. Therefore, the excuse about resources being tied up in fighting drug-related crime simply is not true.
The conclusion in the passage depends on the assumption that
A. every member of the police force is qualified to work on combating the city’s drug problem.
B. drug-related crime is not as serious a problem for the city as the police chief claims it is.
C. writing speeding tickets should be as important a priority for the city as combating drug-related crime.
D. the police could be cracking down on illegally parked cars and combating the drug problem without having to reduce writing speeding tickets.
E. (E) the police cannot continue writing as many speeding tickets as ever while diverting resources to combating drugrelated crime.

[单项选择] Less than a year ago, a new generation of diet pills seemed to offer the long-sought answer to our chronic weight problems. Hundreds of thousands of pound-conscious Americans had discovered that a drug combination known as "fen-phen" could shut off voracious appetites like magic, and the FDA had just approved a new drug, Redux, that did the same with fewer side effects. Redux would attract hundreds of thousands of new pill poppers within a few months. But now the diet-drug revolution is facing a backlash. Some of the nation’’s largest HMOs, including Aetna U.S. Healthcare and Prudential Healthcare, have begun cutting back or eliminating reimbursement for both pills. Diet chains like Jenny Craig and Nutri-System are backing away from them too. Several states, meanwhile, have restricted the use of fen-phen, last week the Florida legislature banned new prescriptions entirely and called on doctors to wean current patients from the drug within 30 days; it also put a 90-day limit on R
A. 82 patients on fen-phen and seven on Redux had developed heart defects
B. a woman patient on fen-phen had died of abnormally high blood pressure
C. a woman patient on fen-phen had died of a lung disease
D. both diet pills cause brain damage