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Why do adults believe that alcoholic awareness programs teach young people not to overdrink? Recently, reading an article about
Why do adults believe that alcoholic awareness programs teach young people not to overdrink? Recently, reading an article about
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2014-07-20
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Why do adults believe that alcoholic awareness programs teach young people not to overdrink? Recently, reading an article about the alcohol-induced deaths of two students from two different universities in Colorado, I came across a theme on teen drinking applicable to parents, school administration, and local government: they just don’t get it.
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 naivete. 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: how can kids learn to drink responsibly? The answer: by practising. Like figuring out how to throw a baseball, a person needs to learn by trial and error.
Now, I am not proposing that underage kids should have access to alcohol at all times, but they will never know when they have reached their limit without drinking alcohol first. Trust me, we feel when we have surpassed our limit.
It has 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 them 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 underage 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 restaurant.
Most of us live in an environment that is geared toward drinking and overdrinking, and adults must face this truth. If they do not wake up and see reality, their kids one morning might not wake up from a night of drinking.
Which of the following statements can NOT be inferred from this passage?
选项
A、Lawmakers should permit teenagers to drink.
B、The lawful age for people to drink in America is 21.
C、The author has the experience of drinking beyond the limit.
D、Underage kids are sometimes pressed to drink when they are out socially.
答案
A
解析
事实细节题。第二段第二句话暗示了法定饮酒年龄是21岁,排除B ;根据文章第二段最后两句话和第三段第一句话后半句及第二句话可知作者有切身体会,只有实践才知道自己的酒量,才可能以后不会喝多,并要别人相信他,所以他肯定有过喝多的经历,所以排除 C ;第四段最后一句以及第六段第三句谈到年轻人面临社会上喝酒的压力,第五段第二句也提到聚会要喝酒,所以排除D ;根据文章倒数第二段第四句可知作者只是呼吁立法者适度宽容,并不是要他们允许未成年人饮酒,所以选项A 正确。
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