Progressive Reading
Revised Edition
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策 划：鞠方安 商希建 主 编：刘兰芝 杨真真 副主编：鲁显生 Gerald Zimmerman 王欧 制作人：赵洪宝???
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Lesson Nine
The Weird World of Tobacco
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Catalogue
☼Background Information ☼Warm-up Questions ☼Main Idea ☼Language Points ☼Difficult Sentences ☼Keys to the Exercises
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Background Information
$1.294 billion in 2001, comprising chemists, pharmacologists（药理学家）, physicians, microbiologists, veterinarians (兽医), pharmacists, lawyers, and many others. About onethird of the agency’s employees are stationed outside of the Washington, D. C. area, staffing over 150 field offices .
●他的毒瘾不易戒掉，因为他有很多朋友都是有毒 瘾的人。 It's not easy for him to dry out since he has a lot of drug addict friends.
2) someone who is very interested in sth and spends a lot of time doing it
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Background Information
Food and Drug Administration
The U S. Food and Drug Administration (食品 与药物管理局) is a public health agency that
oversees items accounting for 25 cents of every dollar spent by consumers. Its jurisdiction (司法 权）encompasses most food products (other than
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Background Information
In 1995 Quindlen left the world of newspapers, which she had joined as a copy girl at age 18, to become a full-time novelist. In 2000, Quindlen became the first writer ever to have books appear on the fiction, nonfiction, and self-help New York Times Best-Seller lists.
on both fiction a l and
non-fiction a l bestseller
lists.
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Background Information
Her latest non-fiction book, A Short Guide to a Happy Life, has sold over one million copies and been on every national bestseller list since it was first published at the end of 2000. Quindlen began her journalism career as a reporter with The New York Post in 1974. She joined the The New York Times in 1977.
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Background Information
Over the last 25 years,
Anna Quindlen ’ s
work has appeared in
some of America ’ s
most
influential
newspapers a n d best-
known magazines, and
●我大约有4年时间沉迷在电子游戏中。 I went through about four years of being addicted to video games.
●他酷爱流行音乐。 He was passionately addicted to pop music.
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Language Points
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Language Points
1.addicted adj (line 1 , para.1) unable to stop taking a harmful substance, especially a drug
●许多有尼古丁瘾的抽烟人不容易把烟戒掉。 Many smokers who are chemically addicted to nicotine cannot cut down easily.
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Main Idea
device for nicotine" the FDA still didn’t move against it. With so many tobacco growers and smokers, tobacco companies still want to win the war of the profit margin (ignoring people’s health). But the product, when used as directed, causes death.
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Warm-up Questions
Tips
1. Why do people Smoke?
● People smoke for various reasons: for the sake of improving one’s work efficiency; feeling refreshed and stimulated fashionable, cool, and graceful; as a form of killing time; venting their anger or frustration; out of curiosity …
●贩卖毒品的地区往往是吸毒上瘾、贫困和发生谋杀 的地方。 Areas of drug dealing are hellholes of addiction, poverty and murder.
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Language Points
drug/heroin/alcohol etc addiction 2) a strong desire to do or have sth regularly
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Main Idea
This is about the absurdity of some kinds of human behavior. Is tobacco poisonous? Quindlen knows that already. She tells us t h a t the government, tobacco companies and addicts twist, pervert and distort the truth to try to keep it legal. She begins with problems urging the FDA to ban it. Then she indicates how profitable it is
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Warm-up Questions
Tips
2. What are the possible effects of smoking?
●At the very beginning, feel refreshed and stimulated; once addicted to it, suffer from…; are more likely to…; develop lung-related illnesses,; not only… but also…; a form of self-battering…
●他17岁的时候对海洛因上了瘾。 He was addicted to heroin at the age of 17.
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Language Points
2) liking sth so much that you do not want to stop doing it or having it
addiction n 1) the need to take a harmful drug regularly, without being able to stop
●他吸毒成瘾使他走上犯罪的道路。 His addiction to drugs propelled him towards a life of crime.
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Background Information
Video watching
A columnist at The New York Times from 1981 to 1994; In 1990 Quindlen became the third woman in the paper’s history to h a v e writ t e n a regular column for its influential Op-Ed page ( 专 栏 版 ) . I n 1992, Quindlen won the Pulitzer Prize ( 普 利 策 奖 ) for Commentary(实况解说).