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限时精练四45分钟综合性过关小练习(五) 注意事项: 1. 答题前,考生务必将学校、班级、姓名写在密封线内。 2. 请将选择题的答案根据老师批改需要填写在试卷第3页所附的答题栏内。 一、 阅读理解 请认真阅读下列短文,从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中,选出最佳选项。 A Police traded gift cards for guns in Los Angeles on Wednesday, in a buyback program Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa announced as a crime-fighting response to the deadly shooting incident in Newtown, Connecticut. Police officers handed out $200 grocery store gift cards to people who turned in an automatic weapon, and $100 gift cards to those who provided a handgun or shotgun. Los Angeles has held an annual gun buyback since 2009, and similar events have been organized in years past in several other cities, including Detroit and Boston. Police in San Diego had a buyback earlier this month. Some experts say the buybacks have little effect in reducing gun violence, but Villaraigosa touted the buyback program as one step that can be taken in response to the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, on December 14 that claimed the lives of 20 children and six adult staff members. Los Angeles normally has its gun buyback in May, but Villaraigosa announced last week that the city would have this special buyback in response to the Newtown tragedy(悲剧). “There are a number of things we can do. This is just one of them,” Villaraigosa said on CNN. “We’ve got to also address the culture of violence that we’ve got in this country.” At the last count, the Los Angeles gun buyback had collected 1,366 firearms, including 477 handguns and 49 assault weapons, said Vicki Curry, a spokeswoman for the mayor. The buyback ended at 4 p.m. local time, but a final number of guns collected was not expected to be released before Thursday. In May, the city抯 annual gun buyback program collected 1,673 firearms at six locations, compared to two locations used for the program on Wednesday, Curry said. At each of the locations where the buyback was held, a line of cars stretched around the block, Curry said. People dropping off their guns were a