单选题 On April 4th an alert went out around the University of Texas at Austin. Police had received a report of an Asian male, apparently carrying two weapons, near the university's main gym. Half an hour later an update came: the subject had been located. He was a member of the military training corps, and the guns were replicas.
Phew. But that is the kind of situation that has gun opponents worried about a new bill working its way through the Texas legislature. The measure would allow people to carry concealed weapons on campus, as long as they have the proper license. That is currently prohibited in about half of the states, including Texas, although Texas lets individual universities opt out of the prohibition if they have their hearts set on it. Measures to overturn blanket campus prohibitions have popped up in a number of states this year, including Michigan, Arizona, Nevada, and Tennessee.
This is, of course, contentious. Gun proponents argue that concealed weapons can make public places safer. They point to an incident from 2007, when a heavily armed gunman entered a Colorado church. He killed two people before one of the congregants, a former policewoman, managed to shoot him. Opponents respond that people with concealed weapons might accidentally make things worse in fraught (or just drunken) situations. At a hearing in Austin in March dozens of witnesses waited to testify, with high emotions on both sides. Students said that the idea frightened them. Those in favour spoke of the right to self-defence.
But the issue at hand in these bills is not concealed guns exactly. Most states give people the right to have them, although there are certain places, such as airports and primary schools, where the right is limited. The logic is that these spaces have special security concerns. But are university campuses not special too? Critics of the legislation reckon that they are, given the youth of the population, and the emotional tensions of the environment.
The critics have notched up some victories. On April 18th the governor of Arizona, Jan Brewer, vetoed that state's bill to allow "concealed carry" on campus. Earlier this month the Tennessee measure was shelved in committee. The Texas bill, after sailing through the House, seemed to stall in the state Senate. But on May 9th it made it through, after Republicans attached it to a bill intended to raise extra money for state universities. That bill passed and now goes back to the House. It is likely to pass, and then to be signed into law by the governor, Rick Perry. "I would argue that Texas is [already] a pretty gun-friendly state," said John Whitmire, a Democratic state senator from Houston, while chairing the March hearing. It looks like it.

单选题 What is the present situation of the regulation on the concealed weapons in US campus?
A. If students get the proper license, they can carry concealed weapons on campus.
B. Concealed weapons are forbidden on campus.
C. Part of the states allows people to carry concealed weapons on campus.
D. Students can take weapons only on the campus of Texas.

单选题 The incident of 2007 is cited by gun proponents to illustrate that ______.
A. concealed weapons do make contribution to public places security
B. only policewomen can carry guns
C. congregants should be allowed to carry weapons
D. more armed citizens, less incidents

单选题 According to the author, a controversial problem which requires urgent attention is that ______.
A. campus weapons should be limited
B. the regulation of weapons in airports and primary schools should be overturned
C. university campuses should have special security concerns
D. whose security threat is the biggest among primary schools, airports and campuses

单选题 What is the author's attitude towards carrying concealed weapons on campus?
A. Opponent. B. Objective. C. Indifferent. D. Approving.

单选题 According to the text, we can predict that ______.
A. the prohibition on campus certainly will be overturned in Texas
B. carrying concealed weapons on campus in Texas may become a law
C. the bill about campus weapons had been shelved in Texas
D. the governor of California is in favor of the new bill