of Schutt Sports in Illinois, successfully fought a lawsuit involving a football player who was paralyzed in a game while wearing a Schutt helmet. \aren't designed to prevent those kinds of injuries,\The jury agreed that the nature of the game, not the helmet, was the reason for the athlete's injury. At the same time, the American Law Institute—a group of judges, lawyers, and academics whose recommendations carry substantial weight—issued new guidelines for tort (民事侵权行为) law stating that companies need not warn customers of obvious dangers or bombard them with a lengthy list of possible ones. \trivialities (琐事),\helped draft the new guidelines. If the moderate end of the legal community has its way, the information on products might actually be provided for the benefit of customers and not as protection against legal liability.
16. What were things like in the 1980s when accidents
happened?
A. Customers might be relieved of their disasters through lawsuits.
B. Injured customers could expect protection from the legal system.
C. Companies would avoid being sued by providing new warnings.
D. Juries tended to find fault with the compensations companies promised.
17. Manufacturers as mentioned in the passage tend to
________________.
A. satisfy customers by writing long warnings on products
B. become honest in describing the inadequacies of their products
C. make the best use of labels to avoid legal liability
D. feel obliged to view customers' safety as their first concern
18. The case of Schutt helmet demonstrated that
________________.
A. some injury claims were no longer supported by law
B. helmets were not designed to prevent injuries
C. product labels would eventually be discarded
D. some sports games might lose popularity with athletes
19. According to the newly-issued guidelines for tort law,
companies ________________.
A. should warn customers of any possible dangers
B. should not forget to mention those obvious dangers
C. should not try to cover every possible danger in the label
D. should prevent customers from any possible misuses
20. The writer's attitude towards the issue seems to be
________________. A. biased
B. indifferent
C. puzzled
D. objective
Part 9 Cloze
(每小题：1 分)
Directions: Read the following passages carefully and choose the best answer from the four choices given for each blank. Questions 1 to 15 are based on the following passage.
Man is, at one and the same time, a solitary being and a social being. As a solitary being, he 1.
acceptsto protect his own existence and that of those who are closest to him, to satisfy his personal desires, and to 2. innate abilities. As a social being, he 3.
seeks todevelophis gain the recognition and affection of his fellow human beings, to share in their pleasure, to comfort
them in their 4.
sorrows, and to improve their conditions of life. Only the existence of these varied, frequently 5.
contradict, strivings accounts for the special character of a man, and their 6.
specialcombination determines the 7. to which an individual can achieve. expansionIt is quite possible that the relative strength of these two drives is, in the main, fixed by inheritance. But the personality that finally 8.
mergesis largely formed by the environment in which a man happens to find himself during his development, by the structure of the society 9.
for whichhe grows up, by the tradition of that society, evaluationand by its 10. of particular types of behaviour. The abstract concept \individual human being the total sum of his direct and indirect relations to his contemporaries and to all the people of 11.
formergenerations. The individual is able to think, infeel, strive, and work 12. himself; but he depends so much upon society—in his physical, 13.
intellectual, and emotional existence—that it is
impossible to think of him, or to understand him, outside the framework of society. It is \food, clothing, a home, the tools of work, language, the forms of thought, and most of the 14.
areaof thought; his life is made possible through the labour and 15.
acknowledgementsof the many millions of past and present who are all hidden behind the small word \