Drinking alcohol(酒精)is dangerous for kids and teens and sometimes for adults, too.
Alcohol is a drug, and it is the drug most abused by teens. Many kids have their first drink
at an early age, as young as 10 or 11 or even younger.
They may have seen their parents drink or cool advertisements for beer and wine. It"s
easy for a kid to get the wrong message about alcohol. In TV commercials, drinking looks
like a lot of fun, you might see people drinking; and watching sports together or having
a big party.
But alcoholisactuallya depressant (镆静剂 ).That means it"s a drug that slows down
or depresses the brain. Like many drugs, alcohol changes a person"s ability to think,
speak and see things as they really are.
A person might lose his or her balance and have trouble walking properly. The person
might feel relaxed and happy and start crying or have an argument.
When people drink too much,.They might hurt themselves or other people, especially
if they drive a car. Someone who drinks too much also might throw up and could wake
up the next day feeling awful. Drinking too much alcohol can lead to alcohol poisoning,
which can kill a person. Over time, someone who abuses alcohol can do serious damage
to his or her body. The liver, which removes poisons from the blood, is especially at risk."
Because alcohol can cause such problems, teens shouldn"t be allowed to use alcohol,
and people who drink alcohol are not allowed to drive cars.
1. What is the best title of the passage?(Please answer within 5 words. )
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2. Which sentence in the passage can be replaced by the following one? Many small
children, began, to drink alcohol when they were younger than, 10 years old.
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3. Please fill in the blank with proper words or phrases to complete the passage.
(Please answer within 10 words. )
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4. Which do you think is the most serious result of drinking alcohol? Why? (Please
answer within 30 words. )
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5. Translate the underlined sentence in the fifth paragraph into Chinese.
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Disposing(处理)of waste has been a problem since humans started producing it.As more
and more people choose to live close together in cities,the waste-disposal problem becomes
increasingly difficult.
During the eighteenth century,it was usual for several neighboring towns to get together to select
a faraway spot as a dump site.Residents or trash haulers(垃圾拖运者)would transport household
rubbish,rotted wood,and old possessions to the site.Periodically some of the trash was burned
and the rest was buried.The unpleasant sights and smells caused no problem because nobody
lived close by.
Factories,mills,and other industrial sites also had waste to be disposed of.Those located on rivers
often just dumped the unwanted remains into the water.Others built huge burners with chimneys
to deal with the problem.
Several facts make these choices unacceptable to modern society.The first problem is space
Dumps,which are now called landfills,are most needed in heavily populated areas.Such areas
rarely have empty land suitable for this purpose.Property is either too expensive or too close to
residential neighborhoods.Long-distance trash hauling has been a common practice but once farm
areas are refusing to accept rubbish from elsewhere,cheap land within trucking distance of major city
areas is almost nonexistent.
Awareness of pollution dangers has resulted in more strict rules of waste disposal.Pollution of
rivers,ground water,land and air is a price people can no longer pay to get rid of waste.The amount
of waste,however,continues to grow.
Recycling efforts have become commonplace,and many towns require their people to take part.
Even the most efficient recycling programs,however,can hope to deal with only about 50 percent of a
city"s reusable waste.
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In the far north-eastern corner of South Africa, Kruger National Park is the largest
game reserve (野生动植物保护区) in the country, and the most famous wildlife zone
on the African continent. Stretching out over 7,332 square miles, Kruger is a wonderland
of wildlife. It has 507 species of birds and 147 species of mammals. It also has a fair bit
of history it dates back to 1898 when it was founded as a game reserve in an attempt to
control hunting in the area. It didn"t see a tourist until 1927; however, one year later it
became a national park.
It"s a good place to see roaring beasts in their own backyards. South Mrica is an
increasingly hot tourist spot, and you may want to visit it this year, before it hosts the
2010 football World Cup. South Africa is also an inexpensive country for tourists.
Anyone seeking to escape the European winter will be surprised to hear that March
is not the best time to go to Kruger.
The six-month period between May and October tends to be the most suitable time
for wildlife - spotting. The weather is not only cooler but also considerably drier. This
means that water sources dry up and animals are forced to approach rivers, creeks, dams
and watering holes in search of liquid refreshment.
If you go to South Africa, you need to pay attention to the threat of malaria (疟疾).
Kruger is one of the only two South African national parks that have an issue about the
disease, but only during the rainy season ( December to April).
A disadvantage of Kruger is that it sits a long way from South Africa"s other well-known
tourist attractions Cape Town, the Garden Route, and the meeting of the Atlantic and Indian
Oceans at Cape Agulhas.
Theme | A(n) (1)____ to World No Tobacco Day |
Time | on May 31 annually first started in (2) ____ |
(3) ____ | Encourage a 24-hour period of no smoking throughout the world. Draw global attention to the widespread prevalence of tobacco use. Make people (4) ____ of negative health effects caused by smoking. Advocate for better policies to (5) ____ consumption worldwide. |
(6) ____ tobacco consumption is seen as a key public health issue | At present 5.4 million people (7) ____ from tobacco use worldwide every year. Tobacco can (8) ____ to many diseases, such as cardiovascular disease, lung diseases, and various cancers. According to WHO, tobacco should be (9) ____ for 10% of all the deaths worldwide every year. The number of tobacco-related deaths are (10) ____ to increase to 8 million by 2030. Tobacco is the number one preventable cause of disability and death. |
Significance | WNTD is a part of the WHO"s larger strategy to change tobacco- related thinking and behaviors around the world with the aim of making the world healthier. |