1、s attitude toward drug users in our society? Would you make friends with someone who has a drug history? In our society most people shun （避开） drug users. Drug users mean trouble. Drug users mean disease. Drug users mean crime. Its only natural for people to steer clear of them. Havent you heard that
2、 many drug addicts are even given up by family members? That says a lot. To make friends with someone who has a drug history? To me, I dont mind making friends with them so long as they have completely quit drugs. I dont think we should blame or discriminate people for their past errors when they ha
3、ve corrected them already.3. Do you think it is necessary for your university to start a drug education program?Yes, I do. Drug abuse has become a serious social problem in this country and many people are being affected by it. Only by more education will people become fully aware of the danger of d
4、oing drugs. University students have the responsibility to fight drug abuse. With more knowledge about the problem, they will not become victims of drug abuse themselves, and will also be able to do their bit in the nations effort to wipe out drug abuse.Part B Listening TaskListen to the story and c
5、hoose the right answers to the questions you hear.A Victim of Drugs Margaret frowned as she shook the can of deodorant. It was almost empty but shed only had it a week - surely she couldnt have used it all? The first few times it happened she thought she was getting mixed up（混乱）. She asked the kids
6、if theyd used it but they said no. So she thought it must have evaporated. Over the next few months, her 15-year-old daughter Lisas jewelry began to disappear and so did any loose change（零钱）. She was worried but she couldnt believe it when her two elder sons blamed their 13-year-old brother Paul for
7、 that. Then Pauls school wrote to say he was disruptive and was playing truant. Margaret and her husband tried to talk to him but he just wouldnt listen. One night Paul was caught breaking into the school and he was expelled. Margaret asked him what was the matter but he just shrugged. During the su
8、mmer things went downhill. He was always out with a gang of older boys. If she tried to keep him in hed climb out of a window. She had no control over him. She knew something was wrong but it never occurred to her that he was taking drugs. One day Margaret got a call from the police - Paul and a gro
9、up of older boys had broken into a house. He was found guilty and sent to a remand center for 28 days. But it didnt help. When he came out he was caught stealing car radios and was sent to another remand center for two months. Soon after he came out, Margaret found cigarette papers in Pauls pockets.
10、 Fearing the worst she confronted him. Whats this for? she asked. Cannabis, he replied. Everybody smokes it. Margaret was horrified. Then everything clicked into place and she realized Paul had been behaving oddly because of the drugs. But the worst was yet to come. He was soon found stealing money
11、at home. Margaret reported him to the police to give him a fright, and the police kept him in cells overnight. That night Paul asked for a doctor, complaining of stomach pains. When Margaret went to visit him, she was told that Paul was suffering from heroin withdrawal. Margaret could hardly believe
12、 her ears. Cannabis seemed bad enough, but heroin was much worse. She began to read all she could on drug abuse. She learnt about aerosol-sniffing and realized Paul had been getting high on her deodorant. Hed started on aerosols, moved to cannabis and then to heroin. And he was only 15. When Paul wa
13、s released, he continued to steal to pay for drugs. Then his downward spiral halted when a sympathetic judge gave him six months probation and ordered him to attend a drug rehabilitation center. Paul seemed to be doing well for a while. He was put on a heroin substitute. The stealing stopped as his
14、drugs were now prescribed. But several years later, Paul, who was high on drugs again, was arrested again for stealing. Two weeks before his 21st birthday, he became so ill with heroin withdrawal that he was moved to hospital. When Margaret and her husband went to see him he didnt seem like his norm
15、al self. He was agitated. Youve been the best mother in the world, he said to Margaret. Then he shook his dads hand. The next morning Paul died. Margaret was so angry that the drugs had won. She said, Drug addiction is a disease and it beat him. The only winners are the drug dealers who get rich on
16、the suffering of ordinary families like ours.Questions:1. How old was Paul when he first started to get high on a drug-like substance?15. 13.11. 17.正确答案： 13 2. Which substance did Paul first start to use?Cabis. Heroin.Cone. Aerosols. Aerosols 3. How did Margaret get to know that Paul was taking drug
17、s?She found cigarette papers in Pauls pockets.She learned it from the police.She learned it from her two elder sons.She saw him sniffing her can of deodorant. She found cigarette papers in Pauls pockets. 4. Why did Margaret report Paul to the police when she found him stealing money at home?She want
18、ed to frighten him.She felt she could no longer control him.She didnt know what else she could do.She thought Paul deserved to be punished for what he had done. She wanted to frighten him. 5. Which of the following can be inferred from the text?Aerosol-sniffing is a widespread practice among childre
19、n.Aerosols do not produce withdrawal symptoms.Cannabis is very popular among young people in the country where Paul is from.Cannabis is milder than heroin. Cannabis is milder than heroin. 6. What was the cause of Pauls death?An overdose of heroin. An overdose of cannabis.Cannabis withdrawal. Heroin
20、abuse. Heroin abuse. Statements:（F）1. The first time Margaret knew her son Paul was addicted to drugs was when she found the can of deodorant was empty. （F）2. Her son Paul blamed his two elder sons for stealing the loose change from the family. （T）3. Paul was expelled from school because he was caug
21、ht stealing the things at school one night. （F）4. Margarets husband was too busy to care about Pauls education and behavior.（T）5. Paul and a group of older boys were arrested by the police for breaking into a house one day. （T）6. Paul and his friends often inhaled cannabis and later on they took her
22、oin as well. （T）7. Though Margaret tried hard to save her son, she was a loser in a battle against the drug addiction.Speaking TaskWhat do you think of the text youve just heard? Exchange views with your partner.The harm drugs did to Paul was appalling. Once he picked up this horrible habit, he was
23、plunged into a downward spiral of self-destruction. From aerosol-sniffing to cannabis and then on to heroin, he became a confirmed drug addict at the young age of 15. As a result, his health deteriorated. Meanwhile, other problems also surfaced. Under the influence of drugs, he became aggressive and
24、 was frequently involved in criminal acts in order to get money for drugs. Attending the drug rehabilitation center didnt seem to be of much help. He continued to use drugs until they finally took his life. Pauls death was a heavy blow to his family, especially his mother. Think of the worries, fear
25、s and pain she suffered as she watched helplessly when things went from bad to worse for her son. Think of the anger and the grief she felt at losing Paul to drugs. Nothing perhaps can cause a mother more agony than to watch her son drift away toward destruction without being able to stop it.s death
26、 was tragic. But his tragedy, I think, could have been prevented if there had been more awareness of the danger of drug abuse on the part of his parents and society as a whole. If Margaret knew the danger of aerosol-sniffing, she would have interfered when she discovered that someone had been messin
27、g around with her deodorant, and Paul might have been prevented from taking drugs right at the beginning. And if the school and the law enforcement departments had offered Paul more care and professional help rather than punishment, they might have been able to prevent his case from deteriorating to
28、 such a bad state.Describing graphs:In this part youll make a comparision of pictures. Listen to a sample passage or conversation about the first picture. Then move on to the next two pictures. Use the sample as your model and carry on similar activities with your partner.A sampleAccording to the gr
29、aph, illegal drug use among 10th-graders in the U.S. increased significantly during the 1993 97 period but decreased slightly during the 1997 2001 period. From 1993 to 1997, the percentage of students who had used drugs rose from 32.8 percent to 47.3 percent, an increase of 14.5 percentage points within four years. Fr
