Section A Questions 47 to 51 are based on the following passage.
Last year, our nation’s capital passed the murder-a-day mark, and the
number of homicides is now up some 50 percent from that level. More than half of
these killings are drug-related. In 1988 New York City had its most violent year
ever, with 1896 homicides. Many of these in volved drugs. Such homicides are
also a problem in Detroit, Baltimore, St. Louis, Los Angeles, Phoenix and scores
of other cities where drug gangs war against one another and use violence to
spread their deadly trade. In Bankhead Courts, and Atlanta housing
project, drug-related crime has reached the point where mail carriers have had
to depend on increased police patrols at delivery, time. What is happening
around us unfolds a vivid picture that the links between drug use and crime are
clearly established. According to authoritative governmental study, around
three-quarters of crack and heroin users claim they commit crime to feed their
habit. In consequence, a huge rise in drug-related crime is undermining the
Government’s attempts to crack clown on lawlessness in the nation. It is our
priority to break this damaging chain. For years, we have
attacked the supply side of the drug crisis, trying to choke off the flow of
drugs into our country and stop the networks that distribute them. This strategy
has failed miserably. Now it’s time to launch a whole new offensive. We must
crack down on drug consumers. Last year, former First Lady Nancy
Reagan had an emotional meeting with the parents of a young woman who had died
in a train crash that involved an engineer’s use of drugs. After that meeting,
Mrs. Reagan said, "If you’re a casual drug user, you’re an accomplice to
murder." Mary’ Jane Hatcher, widow of a New York City
drug-enforcement agent killed in the drug wars, echoes that sentiment.
"Even through the grief," she said after her husband’s death earlier this
year, "I must ask who really killed Everett Emerson from our society Look
around. We middle-class suburban Americans, we casual users, we dabblers
(涉猎着) in drugs keep the market in drugs an ever-increasing one. Therefore,
Everett Emerson Hatcher was killed by all of us nice people, all of you who hear
me now and fit this description, all of you must accept the blame for the loss
of this good, gentle man." Who should be responsible for the death of Everett Emerson Hatcher according to the passage
【参考答案】
All Of Us who keep the drug market ever-increasing.