Heres to Your Health As the only freshman on his schools varsity wrestling team, Tod was anxious to fit in with his older teammates. One night after a match, he was offered a whisky bottle on the ride home. Tod felt he had to accept, or he would seem like a sissy. He took a swallow, and every time the bottle was passed back to him, he took another swallow. After seven swallows, he passed out. His terrified teammates carried him into his home, and his mother then rushed to the hospital. After his stomach was pumped, Tod learned that his blood alcohol level had been so high that he was lucky not to be in a coma or dead. Although alcohol sometimes causes rapid poisoning, frequently leads to long-term addiction, and always threatens self-control, our society encourages drinking. Many parents, by their example, give children the impression that alcohol is an essential ingredient of social gatherings. Peer pressure turns bachelor parties, fraternity initiations , and spring-semester beach vacations into competitions in getting trashed. In soap operas, charming characters pour Scotch whiskey from crystal bottle as readily as most people turn on the faucet for tap water. In films and rock videos, trend-setters party in nightclubs and bars. And who can recall a televised baseball or basketball game without a beer commercial? By the age of 21, the average American has been drinking on TV about 75, 000 times. Alcohol ads appear with pounding frequencyin magazines, on billboards, in college newspaperscontributing to a harmful myth about drinking. Part of the myth is that liquor signals professional success. In a mens magazine, one full-page ad for Scotch whiskey shows two men seated in an elegant restaurant. Both are in their thirties, perfectly groomed, and wearing expensive grey suits. The windowsare draped with velvet the table with spotless white linen. Each place-setting consists of a long-stemmed water goblet, silver utensils and thick silver plates. On each plate is half-empty cocktail glass. The two men are grinning and shaking hands, as if theyve just concluded a business deal. The caption reads, The taste of success. Contrary to what the liquor company would have us believe, drinking is more closely related to lack of success than to achievement. Among students, the heaviest drinkers have the lowest grades. In the work force, alcoholics are frequently late or absent, tend to perform poorly, and often get fired. Although, alcohol abuse occurs in all economic classes, it remains most severe among the poor. Another part of the alcohol myth is that drinking makes you more attractive to the opposite sex. Hot, hot, hot, one commercials soundtrack begins, as the camera scans a crowd of college-age beachgoers. Next it follows the curve of a womans leg up to her bare hip and lingers there. She is young, beautiful, wearing a bikini. A young guy, carrying an ice chest , positions himself near to where she sits. He is tan, muscular. She doesnt show much interestuntil he opens the chest and takes out a beer. Now she smiles over at him. He raises his eyebrows and, invitingly, holds up another can. She joins him. This beer, the song concludes, attracts like no other. Beer doesnt make anyone sexier. Like all alcohol, it lowers the levels of male hormones in men and of female hormones in womeneven when taken in small amounts. In substantial amounts, alcohol can cause infertility in women and impotence in men. Some alcoholic men develop enlarged breasts, from their increased female hormones. The alcohol myth also creates the illusion that beer and athletics are a perfect combination. One billboard features three high-action images: a baseball player running at top speed, a surfer riding a wave, and a basketball player leaping to make a dunk shot. A particular light beer, the billboard promises, wont slow you down.
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2014届高考英语一轮复习课时作业(二十二)必修4Module 4《Great Scientists》(外研版)
2014届高考英语一轮复习课时作业(二十四)必修4Module 6《Unexplained Mysteries of the Natural World》(外研版)
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2014届高考英语一轮复习课时作业(四十五)选修8Module 3《Foreign Food》(外研版)
2014届高考英语一轮复习课时作业(十八)必修3Module 6《Old and New》(外研版)
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一个男孩的困扰 A Boy’s Annoyance
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2014届高考英语一轮复习课时作业(二十五)必修5Module 1《British and American English》(外研版)
2014届高考英语一轮复习课时作业(三十)必修5Module 6《Animals in Danger》(外研版)
2014届高考英语一轮复习课时作业(三十八)选修7Module 2《Highlights of My Senior Year》(外研版)
2014届高考英语一轮复习课时作业(三十六)选修6Module 6《War and Peace》(外研版)
2014届高考英语一轮复习课时作业(四十六)选修8Module 4《Which English?》(外研版)
2014届高考英语一轮复习必修5参考答案(外研版)
2014届高考英语一轮复习课时作业(三十四)选修6Module 4《Music》(外研版)
2014届高考英语一轮复习课时作业(四十二)选修7Module 6《The Worlds Cultural Heritage》(外研版)
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2014届高考英语一轮复习必修4参考答案(外研版)
2014届高考英语一轮复习课时作业(二十六)必修5Module 2《A Job Worth Doing》(外研版)
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2014届高考英语一轮复习课时作业(四十一)选修7Module 5《Ethnic Culture》(外研版)
2014届高考英语一轮复习课时作业(四十三)选修8Module 1《Deep South》(外研版)
我的新偶像 My New Idol