2020-3 Section I Use of English Directions: Read the following text. Choose the best word (s) for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C or D on the ANSWER SHEET (10 points) The stark differences between the opposing sides of the gun control debate were laid bare on Sunday when a Republican senator said banning 100-round magazines would infringe constitutional rights. James Holmes, the suspect in last Friday’s shooting at a cinema in Aurora, Colorado, is 1 to have used a semi-automatic rifle with a 100-round magazine. Supporters of gun control want to 2 assault rifles and high capacity magazines 3 Ron Johnson, a Republican senator from Wisconsin, told Fox News that he opposed such a 4 . “People will talk about 5 lethal weapons,” he said. “But the fact is there are 30-round magazines that are just common. You 6 can’t keep these weapons out of the hands of sick, 7 individuals who want to do harm. And when you try to do it, you 8 our freedoms.” The National Rifle Association, which 9 restrictions on guns, has declined to comment on the Aurora 10 . But Steve Schmidt, the Republican strategist who 11 John McCain’s 2008 presidential campaign, said US politicians were 12 to oppose the NRA. “It’s the most 13 interest group in Washington,” he told NBC’s Meet the Press. Carolyn McCarthy, Democratic representative from New York – and a supporter of 14 gun control measures – said confronting the NRA would “save lives.”“Many 15 know it’sthe right thing to try to fight for something to save lives. They don’t have the courage anymore. They 16 to who’s giving them money,” she said. Louie Gohmert, a Republican congressman from Texas, 17 this week that the death toll in last Friday’s attacks would have been lower 18 some of the patrons in the Aurora cinema had been 19 and able to return fire. But Bill Bratton, the former chief of the New York and Los Angeles police departments, told Meet the Press it was 20 this would have made a difference.