首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
Why do adults believe that alcoholic awareness programs teach young people not to over-drink? Recently, reading an article about
Why do adults believe that alcoholic awareness programs teach young people not to over-drink? Recently, reading an article about
admin
2010-03-19
83
问题
Why do adults believe that alcoholic awareness programs teach young people not to over-drink? Recently, reading an article about the alcohol-induced deaths of two students from two different universalities in Colorado, I came across a theme on teen drinking applicable to parents, school administration, and local government: they just don’t get it①.
To use a pun by New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman, who changes WMD to PMD (people of mass destruction), I call much of the adult generation PMNs—people of mass naiveté. I say this because adults seem to believe that no child of theirs would touch alcohol before 21. Since that’s unrealistic, the issue should be: bow can kids learn to drink responsibly? The answer: by practising. Like figuring out bow to throw a baseball, a person needs to learn by trial and error.
Now, I am not proposing that under-age kids should have access to alcohol at all times, but they will never known when they have reached their limit without drinking alcohol first. Trust me, we feel when we have surpassed our limit.
It bas often been stressed to my generation that there should always be a designated driver who does not drink. But, realistically, when people go to a bar, are they not supposed to drink? My friend, a willing designated driver, was asked by a friend on the bar why he did not have a drink in his hand. He responded, "I am driving." She then repeated her question while laughing. In other words, college students face intense pressure to drink when they are out socially, even though some manage to withstand it.
The solution I propose is two-fold. First, to parents: If you have children in high school, understand that your kids will drink at parties. Despite the legal drinking age, they will find a way to obtain beer or liquor. While you are home drinking this holiday season, have a drink with your kids and their friends, or at the very least, allow the to have a drink. Ensure they are safe, but also guarantee that they know what they are doing. Please introduce them to alcohol before they go off to college so that, on the first weekend, they don’t drink themselves into the ER. They do this not because they want to drink to get drunk, but because they do not know any better.
Second, to lawmakers: How are teenagers supposed to learn to drink responsibly when they cannot even drink legally with their parents? Having a drink with your parents at a restaurant is a much more adult experience than drinking with them at home. The truth of the matter is that almost all under-age drinking is done outside the home, in social circles. So lawmakers should make an exception and allow teenagers, who are one or two years under the drinking age and accompanied by their parents, to have a drink at a restaurant②.
Most of us live in an environment that is geared toward drinking and overdrinking, and adults must face this truth, ff they do not wake up and see reality, their kids one morning might not wake up from a night of drinking.
Who will be the most possible readers of this passage?
选项
A、Parents.
B、Lawmakers and officials.
C、Educators and supervisors.
D、Under-age kids.
答案
C
解析
推理判断题。文章第一段就提出了主题,孩子父母、学校领导和法律工作者未意识到的问题。接下来第二段前两句针对父母,第五段和第六段分别针对父母和立法工作者,而孩子并不是作者所定位的读者,所以排除选项D ;选项A 和B 不够全面;正确答案为C ,孩子的父母、校方与立法者都是孩子的教育者和管理人。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/fU9K777K
0
专业英语四级
相关试题推荐
WhenIwasgrowingup,thewholeworldwasJewish.TheheroeswereJewishandthevillainswereJewish.Thelandlord,thedoctor
WhenIwasgrowingup,thewholeworldwasJewish.TheheroeswereJewishandthevillainswereJewish.Thelandlord,thedoctor
StaggeringtasksconfrontedthepeopleoftheUnitedStates,NorthandSouth,whentheCivilWarended.Aboutamillionandaha
StaggeringtasksconfrontedthepeopleoftheUnitedStates,NorthandSouth,whentheCivilWarended.Aboutamillionandaha
Theybelievedthatthiswasnotthe______oftheircampaignforequalitybutmerelythebeginning.
TheCarnegieFoundationreportsaysthatmanycollegeshavetriedtobe"allthingstoallpeople".Indoingso,theyhaveincre
Attentiontodetailsissomethingeveryonecanandshoulddo-especiallyinafightjobmarket.BobCrossley,ahumanresources
Attentiontodetailsissomethingeveryonecanandshoulddo-especiallyinafightjobmarket.BobCrossley,ahumanresources
随机试题
In.VisibleMoscowisawalkingtourimagined.Thetechnologyislikeanyguidedwalkingtour;apairofheadphonesandaguide.
Thepassagesuggeststhat______.Whatcanweinferfromthepassage?
某男,23岁。面目一身俱黄,色鲜如桔色,纳呆、恶心,脘胀、胁痛、胁下有痞块,小便黄少,大便溏薄,舌红苔黄腻,脉弦数。临床诊断最可能是
下列不属于皮肤黏膜淋巴结综合征临床特征的是
下列票据欺诈行为,可以依法追究行为人的刑事责任的是()。
知情权:是指公民有权知道他应该知道的事情,国家应该最大限度地确认和保障公民知悉、获取信息的权利,尤其是政务信息的权利。根据上述定义,下面与知情权无关的是()。
《关山积雪图》为一长卷,卷首群山始现,卷尾山体绵延,______地描绘了冬日群山的______之景。填入画横线部分最恰当的一项是:
如果要运行SMENU.MPR文件,正确的命令是()。
一个完整的计算机系统应该包含___________。
Ofallthestorieshere,Ilikethisone______It’snotinterestingatall.
最新回复
(
0
)