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Why do adults believe that alcoholic awareness programs teach young people
Why do adults believe that alcoholic awareness programs teach young people
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2023-11-06
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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. [br] What is the author’s attitude towards the phenomenon of teenagers’ drinking?
选项
A、Favorable.
B、Undisclosed.
C、Impartial.
D、Realistic.
答案
D
解析
作者态度题。A 并未领会作者论述的实质,作者虽然主张父母、教育机构以及立法者对孩子饮酒持宽容态度,放宽尺度,但是作者在第三段第一句话明确表示并不是要年轻人随便喝酒,予以排除;C impartial意思是“公正的,不偏袒的”,这里并未涉及双方的争论,无所谓偏袒,所以不合适;从第二段第三句“不让喝酒不现实”,第四段最后一句“孩子面临社会上喝酒的压力”,第五、六两段“对父母和立法者的建议”,可以看出,作者认为青少年饮酒现象是不可避免的,指出了面对现实的必要性。因此选D realistic;所有这些都排除 B
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