9.Scots are more likely to drink themselves to death than people from any other nation in Western Europe except Austria and Portugal.Every day,six Scots die from alcohol-related conditions.Our hospitals and health services struggle with the wider damage.An estimated 51,600 Scots suffer from drink-related illness.Incidence of liver disease has shot up 40 percent in the past seven years.Most knife attacks and most adult murders occur under the influence of alcohol.And drink abuse (嗜酒) has ruined thousands of families,a personal,psychological and social cost on top of the£1billion already estimated through work absence.
If all this were not bad enough,problems with alcohol abuse are now spreading to an ever-younger age group.
The proportion of pupils aged 12-15 who had had an alcoholic drink in the previous week rose in the last decade from 14 percent to 21 percent.Today,more than 40percent of all 15-year-olds admit to having had a drink in the past week.Much teenage crime and destruction is drink related.
To his credit,the Executive has focused his attention on alcohol abuse problem.Behind the scenes,the
Executive is discussing how far it should go in trying to persuade Scots to drink in a more sensible fashion.The First Minister is known to be against an alcohol ban on the lines of prohibition on public smoking.He is correct that such a move would not be accepted by the people and,anyway,general prohibition tends to drive substance abuse underground rather than eliminate it.
Nevertheless,a debate is emerging on what controls to put on the easy availability of alcohol,especially to the young.As we report today,Donald Gorrie,the senior Liberal Democrat MSP,is launching a campaign in the Scottish Parliament(議會)to prohibit supermarkets from offering cut-price promotions on alcoholic drinks,in line with a similar ban on such promotions to off-licences and public houses introduced earlier this year.
It remains to be seen if it is technically feasible to define sales promotions of alcohol in a supermarket in such a way as to control them.There is also a reasonable argument that it is better to have people buy drinks at a supermarket,where the likelihood is that they will consume the alcohol at home rather than drink in public.On the other hand,much of the alcohol consumed by underground drinkers comes from the family supply.Perhaps the real solution is to question the cheapness of alcohol across the board.
Nevertheless,Mr.Gorrie has opened an important public discussion.He has a talent for making parliament confront awkward issues,and alcohol is one such issue.
32.It can be inferred from the passage thatA.
A.banning alcohol may make alcohol abuse exist secretly
B.Donald Gorrie held a debate on limiting alcohol
C.40percent of all 15-year-olds are involved in criminal activity after drinking
D.the influence of alcohol cost£1billion through drink-related disease
33.The underlined sentence in Paragraph 4means"C."
A.young people debate over whether they should control the availability of alcohol
B.unless a debate of controlling alcohol is held,young people will drink too much alcohol
C.a(chǎn) debate on how to keep young people from easy access to alcohol appears
D.there is a discussion on how young people could give up alcohol abuse
34.What is probably the useful solution to alcohol abuse according to the passage?A
A.To change the cheapness of alcohol.
B.To prohibit people from going to pubs.
C.To persuade them to drink in a more sensible fashion.
D.To strike secret pubs.
35.This passage is more likely to be seen inB.
A.a(chǎn) medical magazine
B.the society page of a newspaper
C.a(chǎn)n introduction to Scotland
D.a(chǎn)n official document from British government.
分析 本文屬于說明文閱讀,作者通過這篇文章主要向我們描述了酒精濫用現(xiàn)象越來越普遍,甚至許多青少年也陷入酗酒的惡習,必須采取措施阻止.
解答 32.A.細節(jié)理解題.根據(jù)第四段He is correct that such a move would not be accepted by the people and,anyway,general prohibition tends to drive substance abuse underground rather than eliminate it可知禁止酒精會使酒精濫用變得秘密;故選A.
33.C.句意理解題.根據(jù)第五段Nevertheless,a debate is emerging on what controls to put on the easy availability of alcohol,especially to the young可知出現(xiàn)關(guān)于如何使青少年遠離酒精的爭論;故選C.
34.A.細節(jié)理解題.根據(jù)文章Perhaps the real solution is to question the cheapness of alcohol across the board可知酒精濫用的有效解決方案是改變酒精的廉價性;故選A.
35.B.推理判斷題.根據(jù)第一段Scots are more likely to drink themselves to death than people from any other nation in Western Europe except Austria and Portugal可知文章容易出現(xiàn)在社會版面上;故選B.
點評 考察學生的細節(jié)理解和推理判斷能力,做細節(jié)理解題時一定要找到文章中的原句,和題干進行比較,再做出正確的選擇.在做推理判斷題不要以個人的主觀想象代替文章的事實,要根據(jù)文章事實進行合乎邏輯的推理判斷.