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The Department of Homeland Security has proposed new federal requirements for driver’s licenses that would allow them to be used as part of a national identification system. Using licenses for purposes not directly related to operating a motor vehicle is un-American because it would require U.S. citizens to carry the equivalent of “papers.” Such a requirement would allow the government to restrict their movements and activities in the manner of totalitarian regimes. In time, this could make other limits on freedom acceptable. The author assumes which of the following?
A.The next presidential election will be dishonest, as has happened in eastern European countries.
B.The government will soon start curtailing the activities of those it considers “dissidents.”
C.Blanket restrictions on law-abiding individuals are contrary to the traditions of American culture and law.
D.The majority of Americans are not willing to give up their right to travel and move about without identification.
E.Americans should resist all government regulation of their lives.
答案是:
The conclusion of this argument is that the national identification system (“using licenses for purposes not directly related to operating a motor vehicle”) is unAmerican. The basis for this claim is that such a system would allow the government to restrict the liberty of its people. The necessary assumption is one that connects restrictions on liberties to the concept of “un-American” policies.
(A) The author never mentions future presidential elections, or the role of the president in such a national identification system. Therefore, the conclusion that the national identification system is un-American does not depend on this assumption.
(B) Whether the government will soon, or will ever, start curtailing the activities of dissidents is irrelevant to this argument: that the national identification system is un-American simply because it restricts the liberties of U.S. citizens. Even if the government does not abuse the power the national identification system provides, the system could still be considered un-American.
(C) CORRECT. This choice connects the concept of "un-American" policies to restrictions on liberties, essentially defining blanket restrictions on citizens as unAmerican.
(D) Whether Americans are willing to give up their right to travel freely is irrelevant to this argument: that the national identification system is un-American simply because it restricts the liberties of U.S. citizens. Even if Americans were
willing to give up their right to move about without identification, the system could still be considered un-American.
(E) While the author may be inclined to agree that Americans should resist the government regulation of their lives that the national identification system represents, this argument does not depend on such an assumption. In fact, the author makes a distinction between the national identification system and “licenses for purposes…directly related to operating a motor vehicle,” so it is possible that the author considers some government regulation reasonable.
没有看懂这道题,只看出了结论,没有看懂C选项,求高手帮忙分析,多谢~~
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