問題詳情
四、閱讀測驗【請依照段落上下文意，選出最適當的答案】If you have money to burn, congratulations. But you’d better not actually set fire to a pile of cash. Burning moneyis illegal in the United States and is punishable by up to 10 years in prison, not to mention fines. It's also illegal to tear adollar bill and even flatten a penny under the weight of a locomotive on the railroad tracks.The laws making defacing and debasing currency a crime have their roots in the federal government’s use ofprecious metals to mint coins.Criminals were known to file down or cut off portions of those coins and keep the slivers for themselves whilespending the altered currency.But now even when you burn money or deface coins, your odds of being prosecuted under the federal laws,however, are fairly slim. First, coins now contain very little precious metals. Second, defacing printed currency in an actof protest is often compared to burning the American flag. That is to say, burning money may be considered protectedspeech under the U.S. Constitution’s First Amendment.It’s pretty rare for someone to be arrested and charged with defiling or debasing U.S. currency. Even those pennypress machines you find at arcades and some seashore attractions are okay because they’re used to create souvenirs andnot to debase or shave metal off the coin for profit or fraud.
【題組】46. Which of the following is true about burning money in the United States in the past?
(A) It was unlawful and the punishment might be severe.
(B) It was unlawful but not punishable.
(C) It was immoral but lawful.
(D) It was lawful and protected by the Constitution.
參考答案
答案：A
難度：簡單0.763636
統計：A(42),B(3),C(5),D(5),E(0)