(42) _____________________________.
The Wall Street Journal reports that the casino has 20 signs warning, “Enjoy the fun… and always bet with your head, not over it.” Every entrance ticket lists a toll-free number for counseling from the Indiana Department of Mental Health. Nevertheless, Williams’s suit charges that the casino, knowing he was “helplessly addicted to gambling,” intentionally worked to “l(fā)ure” him to “engage in conduct against his will.” Well.
(43)_________________________.
The fourth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders says “pathological gambling ”involves president, recurring and uncontrollable pursuit less of money than of the thrill of taking risks in quest of a windfall.
(44)___________________. Pushed by science, or what claims to be science, society is reclassifying what once were considered character flaws or moral failings as personality disorders skin to physical disabilities.
(45)____________________.
Forty-four states have lotteries, 29 have casinos, and most of these states are to varying degrees dependent on - you might say addicted to - revenues from wagering. And since the first Internet gambling site was created in 1995, competition for gambler’s dollars has become intense. The Oct.28 issue of Newsweek reported that 2 million gamblers patronize 1,800 virtual cosines every week, with $3.5 billion being lost on Internet wagers this year, gambling has ,passed pornography as the web’s webs most profitable business.
(A) Although no such evidence was preserved, the casino’s marketing department continued to pepper him with mailings. And he entered the casino ad used his Fun Card without being detected.
(B) It is unclear what luring was required, given his compulsive behavior. And in what sense was his will operative?
(C) By the time he had lost $5,000, he said to himself that if he could get back to even, he would quit, one night he won $5,500, but he did not quit.
(D) Gambling has been a common feature of American life forever, but for a long time it was broadly considered a sin, or a social disease. Now it is a social policy, the most important and aggressive promoter of gambling in America is the government.
(E) David Williams suit should trouble this gambling nation. But don’t bet on it.
(F) It is worrisome that society is medicalizing more and more behavioral problems, often defining as addiction what earlier, sterner generations explained as weakness of will.
(G) The anonymous, lonely, undistracted nature of online gambling is especially conductive to compulsive behavior. But even if the government knew how to more against Internet gambling, what would be its grounds for doing so?
1．標(biāo)記空前后句中的關(guān)鍵詞
本文以Williams為例，討論賭博的危害性。各個(gè)空前后句的關(guān)鍵詞標(biāo)記如下：
41．空前：名詞詞組electronic morphine（電子嗎啡，意思是上癮）；數(shù)字20、800。空后：數(shù)字21，000等。說明空中要填入的選項(xiàng)可能包含數(shù)字，并且描述了賭博上癮的情況。
42．名詞letter等。說明空中要填入的選項(xiàng)可能包含letter或其同義詞。
43．引號(hào)中的關(guān)鍵詞：lure, conduct against his will。
44．關(guān)鍵詞：diagnostic, mental disorder, pathological。說明空中要填入的選項(xiàng)可能涉及與醫(yī)學(xué)有關(guān)的行為。
45．空后句中的關(guān)鍵詞：forty-five states。說明空中要填入的選項(xiàng)可能涉及政府行為。而且forty-five states是具體說明，那么它前面的空應(yīng)該是總論政府的行為。
2．標(biāo)記選項(xiàng)中的關(guān)鍵詞
(A)such evidence, mailings。Such evidence說明空的前一句可能提到過一種evidence（證據(jù)），選項(xiàng)中的continued to pepper him with mailings說明空的前一句提到過mailings（寫信）一類的東西。
(B)luring，will。What luring說明luring 或其同義詞在前一句出現(xiàn)過。His will說明will或其同義詞在前一句出現(xiàn)過。
(C)數(shù)字5,000；賭博上癮(did not quit)。說明前一句可能提到數(shù)字，而且涉及賭博上癮的說明。
(D)common feature; social policy; government。
(E)David Williams’s suit；this gambling nation。
(F)medicalizing more and more behavioral problems。more and more說明空前已經(jīng)以醫(yī)療方式（medicalizing）處理過類似問題。
(G) online gambling。
3．比較兩類關(guān)鍵詞
將7個(gè)選項(xiàng)的關(guān)鍵詞與5個(gè)空的前后句中的關(guān)鍵詞進(jìn)行比較，發(fā)現(xiàn)匹配的是：
41與C、42與A、43與B、44與F、 45與D。
4． 代入原文
將確定的選項(xiàng)代入原文，發(fā)現(xiàn)意義上與邏輯上都通順，因此為正確答案。
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