Упр.9 Unit 3 Reader ГДЗ English Кузовлев 10-11 класс
The article is entitled SEVENTEEN-YEAR-OLD PUPIL PUSHES POT. What might the article be about? Choose the possible ideas.
Read the dictionary article below. Does it help you to reconsider your ideas and narrow down the possibilities you had in mind? Which of these possibilities would you now choose?
pot [pot] n
1. a round container made of metal, clay, glass, made to contain liquids or solids, esp. for cooking: a pot of jam
2. the amount that the pot will hold: A pot of tea for two, please.
3. infml a dish, bowl, or other container made by hand out of clay: learning to make pots
4. also pots infml a large amount (of money): They’re rich; they’ve got pots of money.
5. all the money risked in one card game, and taken by the winner
6. a hit which sends the ball into any of the six small bags at the edge of the table in billiards or snooker
7. si for marijuana [,msen’wa:n3]
8. go to pot infml to become ruined or worthless, esp. from lack of care
Read the article and check your ideas about its content. (reading for detail)
A sixth-former at Wendeles Secondary School was arrested yesterday for selling marijuana to junior pupils. He blamed his friends for getting him hooked on it.
“First time I had it was at a friend’s house on a Saturday evening. It had been planned beforehand to get me stoned (unable to behave normally), which I was rather angry at first. But in the end I was excited about taking it. At first it was just like smoking a cigarette but getting a pleasant effect as well. I kept laughing. I only smoked it when I was offered it at big parties. Then I met somebody who said they could get the stuff real easy. My friends started coming to me for it. Then this person started getting heavy. He wanted me to start sniffing other things, but I refused. I know what other drugs do to people. No way would I inject anything. I think that’s disgusting.”
Police inspector James said, “That’s the way these kids often get hooked. The ‘hard’ drug pushers start them on something like marijuana and then say, ‘Why don’t you just sniff a bit of this’ or ‘Just put a bit of this in your drink,’ and before they know it, they’re hooked on heroin, cocaine or amphetamines. It only takes two weeks of heroin, two or three times a week, to be addicted.”
The text names the pupil in three different ways: seventeen-year-old pupil; a sixth-former; he. The text also names marijuana in four different ways. Find them.
What steps of taking drugs are mentioned in the story?
1) The article is probably about a schoolboy who sells drugs, especially marijuana, to other pupils.
2) Yes, it helps. Now it is clear that pot means marijuana, so the article is about drugs, not about a cooking pot or a container.
3) The article is about a sixth-former who was arrested for selling marijuana to junior pupils. He got hooked on it after trying it at a friend’s house, then started using it at parties, and later began selling it to others.
4) Marijuana is named in four different ways:
- marijuana
- it
- the stuff
- pot
5) The steps of taking drugs mentioned in the story are:
- He tried marijuana for the first time at a friend’s house.
- He began smoking it at big parties.
- He got hooked on it.
- He started selling it to others.
