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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.
What is the general tone of this passage?
选项
A、Dogmatic.
B、Persuasive.
C、Impersonal.
D、Ironic.
答案
A
解析
语气题。B persuasive是个干扰项,作者只是提出个人意见,并未从反方来论证,也没站在校方、孩子父母以及立法者的角度来分析问题,最后一段第一句话更主观,不能说很有说服力;C impersonal“客观的,冷淡的”不合乎文意;作者一上来就指责父母、校方和法律工作者没有抓住问题所在“they just don’t get it,第二段第一句称现在的父母是集体天真派,提出问题并给出解决方案,第三段最后一句要别人相信他,在第五、六段分别对父母和立法者提出建议,文章最后一句话语气非常自信强烈,因而答案为A “独断的”。作者直接给出观点,并未冷嘲热讽,文中也没有证据,排除D
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