39. After the Jury Selection and Service Act was passed,         .

[A] sex discrimination in jury selection was unconstitutional and had to be abolished.

[B] educational requirements became less rigid in the selection of federal jurors.

[C] jurors at the state level ought to be representative of the entire community.

[D] states ought to conform to the federal court in reforming the jury system.

涉及段落：

In 1968, the Congress of the United  States passed the Jury Selection and Service Act, Ushering in a new era of democratic reforms for the jury. This law abolished special educational requirements for federal jurors and required them to be selected at random from a cross section of the entire community. In the landmark 1975 decision Taylor v. Louisiana, the Supreme Court extended the requirement that juries be representative of all parts of the community to the state level. The Taylor decision also declared sex discrimination in jury selection to be unconstitutional and ordered states to use the same procedures for selecting male and female jurors.

27.The “threatened” tag disappointed some environmentalists in that it        .

[A] was a give-in to governmental pressure

[B] would involve fewer agencies in action

[C] granted less federal regulatory power

[D] went against conservation policies

涉及段落：

The crash was a major reason the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) decided to formally list the bird as threatened. “The lesser prairie chicken is in a desperate situation,” said USFWS Director Daniel Ashe. Some environmentalists, however, were disappointed. They had pushed the agency to designate the bird as “endangered,” a status that gives federal officials greater regulatory power to crack down on threats. But Ashe and others argued that the “threatened” tag gave the federal government flexibility to try out new, potentially less confrontational conservation approaches…...