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1. He also drinks lots of alcohol for a long period of time.
2. He saw tradegies and harms caused by people under the influence of alcohol. (e.g. the two cases stated in the passage)
3. He gave statistics of percentage of crime and death caused by drunkards. (86% of homicide, 83% of fatal fires etc.)
4. He wrote paragraph 5 in order to support his stand / proof his statements.
5.It is equally addictive and harmful as drugs, just that it is in liquid form.
6. paragraph 7
7. Show advertisements of the side efeects or harms by drinking to people on the tv.
8. Smoking kills or harms the smoker itself only but not people around them, whereas drinking cause lots of problem to other.
No, beacuse smoking is also harmful the those who take in second hand smoke(passive smokers) which is even more harmful to the others bodies than the smoker itself.
9. They are self centered and are not considerate to the others by drining and comminting crime under the influence opf alcohol.
10. Yes to a large extent. Drinking over the limit and acting under the influence of alcohol endangers not only your own life but also others'. more over, drininking can also be addictive and is harmful to our body. However, i have to say that it is alright to have a sip occasionally.
1. He also drinks lots of alcohol for a long period of time.
2. He saw tradegies and harms caused by people under the influence of alcohol. (e.g. the two cases stated in the passage)
3. He gave statistics of percentage of crime and death caused by drunkards. (86% of homicide, 83% of fatal fires etc.)
4. He wrote paragraph 5 in order to support his stand / proof his statements.
5.It is equally addictive and harmful as drugs, just that it is in liquid form.
6. paragraph 7
7. Show advertisements of the side efeects or harms by drinking to people on the tv.
8. Smoking kills or harms the smoker itself only but not people around them, whereas drinking cause lots of problem to other.
No, beacuse smoking is also harmful the those who take in second hand smoke(passive smokers) which is even more harmful to the others bodies than the smoker itself.
9. They are self centered and are not considerate to the others by drining and comminting crime under the influence opf alcohol.
10. Yes to a large extent. Drinking over the limit and acting under the influence of alcohol endangers not only your own life but also others'. more over, drininking can also be addictive and is harmful to our body. However, i have to say that it is alright to have a sip occasionally.
Group members: Janice, Belinda, Sylvester, Teck Hoe.
1.From the first paragraph, the author is referring how he has quit on alcohol twelve years ago which doesn't make him feels morally superior to anyone.
2.This is because having to see his close friends reducing one by one because they were slobbering fools by liquor and also seen other friends ruin their marriage, brutalize their children, destroy their careers and have also helped burying a few people who got their deathdue to drink.
3.The author used the truth which happening in New Bedford,Mass. A 21 years old woman was beaten and repeatedly raped by a gang of drunks in a bar. At the same time, there are 15 onlookers byt they didn't ever do any action because they were all drunk or drinking.Besides, the author also used another truth which happened in New York. four teen-age boys were killed when a car driven by a fifth kid smashed into a concrete wall at 90mph. This will happen because they were drunk.
4.The purpose of the writer in paragraph 5 is that he is trying to show the public that alcohol brings about homicides, wife beating, fatal fires, accidents drownings and suicides.
5.This is because liquor are liquid farms of drugs which will bring about addiction.
6.In paragraph 9 the writer imply that he is against banning liquor.
7. The author wants the media to counter the ills of drinking by showing footage of destroy teenagers, their bodies broken and bleeding, beer cans filling what's left of the backseat and any high fashion couple toasting each other with wine,show men and women pucking on their shoes, falling over tables,sliding away into violence.
8. The author consider smoking a lesser evil because the smoker usually kill only themselves with their habit but drunks not. Yes, because smoking kills one slowely.
9. The phrase "criminal narcissists" tells about the author's view of drink is tat drunks are self-centered.
10. Yes,I agree with the author's view about drinking. This is because drinking may kill others and yourself.
This is Group 2 led by James:
Ans 1:The author used to drink a lot but since a dozen years ago he had become an ex-alcoholic who is rather hmble about the drinking business.
Ans 2:The author changed his views because he saw his close friends and a whole lot others suffered under the influence of alcohol.
Ans 3:The author gave two incidents happened recently around him,which involves a raped woman in a bar,four killed teenagers in a car crash and a recorded statistic of events resulted by the drunks.
Ans 4:The writer used statistics to show just how destructive alcohols can have on anyone, including the non-alcoholics.
Ans 5:It is because liquor brings harm like drugs to the ones who consume it in the form of liquid.
Ans 6:Paragraph 7
Ans 7:By showing footages and advertisements that portrays the side-effects of drugs.
Ans 8:The author considered smoking a lesser evil because he suggested that smoking only harms the ones who are into it.I disagree with the author because smokers can also cause health problem to the ones around him while he's smoking by letting the others inhale the second-hand smoke,which also causes even greater damage to the lungs.
Ans 9:Drunks are insensitive, self-centered beings who only drink witout pausing to reflect on howmuch potential damage they could inflict on the others.
Ans 10:Yes. That is because the author brilliantly displayed the drawbacks of drinking by including incidents happened around him,recorded statistics of cases and a variety of his own experience.He also used himself as a life-example of how an alcoholic can also turn away from alcohol if they really wanted to.
Group member: cyen, Phyllis, Minnie, yen ting
1. The writer was previously a 'Wet Drug' drinking but now quiting the drinks.
2. It is because the 'Wet Drug' has make some of his friends being reduced to slobbering fool, ruining marriages, assault their wife and children and career destroy.
3. The raped and beaten of a 21 years old woman and repeatedly gang rape in Bedford and 4 teen age boys were killed when a car driven by the fifth kid smashed a concrete wall at 90mph.
4. The purpose is to briefing explained 'wet drug' or alcohol caused a lot of trouble and death.
5. The author call liquor as 'wet drug' because it is acting like drug which changed our characteristic.
6. In paragraph 9.
7. By banning the 'wet drug' advertisement on TV.
8. It is because he say it killed only the smoker. I don't agree because from my point of view, it will killed also the surrounding inhaler.
9. They only thinking of themselves and not other by drinking alcohol.
10. Yes, because drinking will harm ourselves and others.
Group member : lena , ken , tze fair, tze teck
1. He is usually a liquor and he gives up this habit because he does not feel that drinking is superior .
2. Because of this close friends, who change from intellengence people to fool liquor especially their insane action .
3. The evidences which is given by the author to justify his view, like his friends ruin their marriages, brutalize their children and destroy their careers.
4. The purpose of the writer in paragraph five is about the effects of drinking the alcohol drinks, such as accidents, homicides, fatal fines, robberies, wife-beating and children abuses.
5. The author calls liquor as ‘wet drug’ because the effect of a person after taking alcoholic drink is almost same as the effect after taking drug.
6. In paragraph eight, the writer implies that he is against banning liquor.
7. The author wants the media to encounter the ills of drinking by showing footage of destroyed teenagers, their bodies broken and bleeding, beer cans filling what is left of the back-seat.
8. The author considers smoking a lesser evil because the effect after drunk is immediately, like the driver who is drunk will die immediately if he involved in a serious accident, however, the effect of smoking is longer than that, like a smoker may be having a lung cancer, after 20 years of smoking, but he can still safe his own life by stop smoking 10 year earlier. I agree with the author.
9. The phrase ‘criminal narcissist ’ tell about the author’s view of drunks that the liquors are insensitive and there are only think about themselves at the moment they drunk.
10. Yes, you can choose to be in the drunk circumstance or not. ‘it means that you can choose to drink into the drunk condition or not. If you are in drunk circumstance, you will get the effect which familiar with the evidence that give by the author'.
1.The author is aware of the harm caused by alcoholic drinks and this is the reason why he gives up drinking for a long time.
2.The author has changed his view about drinking because he has seen the serious affect brought by alcohol to his other friends who ruined their marriages,brutalized children,destroyed their carriers.
3.The evidences are a 21-year-old woman was beaten and raped by a gang of drunks as well as four teen-age boys involved in fatal road accident.
4.The writer wants to show the harm of alcohol or the serious affect brought by alcohol to the society.
5.It's because liquor is a type of alcoholic drink which can cause harmful affects to the drunks.
6.The writer implies that he is against banning liquor in paragraph 7.
7.The author wants the media to ban the advertisement of alcoholic drink to counter the ills of drinking.
8.This is because smoers usually bring harm to themselves with their habit but drunks tend to harm others when they are not mentally aware.
9.The author's view of drunks is they only drink for their own pleasure without caring for others safety and health.
10.I agree because drinking is not a good habit to be practiced due to the fact that it has caused mamy people in this world to suffer from the bad affect caused by alcoholic drinks.
1. He ever drank a lot of alcohol before but he had stopped it.
2. Because he saw lots of the serious effects brought by alcohol.
3. He gave two incidents which involves a woman been beaten and repeatedly raped in a bar,and four teenagers was killed in a car crash.
4. His purpose in paragraph five is to support his stand.
5. He calls liquor as 'wet drug' because alcohol can bring the same effect as drug in a long term and can cause addiction too.
6. He implies that he is against banning liquor in paragraph 9.
7. He wants the media to show footage of destroyed teenagers,their bodies broken and bleeding,beer cans filling what's left of the back-seat to counter the ills of drinking.
8. This is because smokers usually kill only themselves with their habit. I diagree with the author as smoking can bring harms to the people around too.
9. It tells that they are self-centered and insensitive without thinking about the others.
10. Yes. Drinking is not good for health and it does cause lots of matters.
1.The author also drink a lot of drug for a long time.
2.The author change his view because of drinking will make a person become violence and take a rude action.
3.He gave a statistics of percentage of crime and death caused by drunkards.
4.To support his stand or proof his statements.
5.The author call liquor as 'wet drug' because it is equally addictive and harmful as drugs.
6.Paragraph 7.
7.The author show the advertisements with the side effect or harm drinking to people in tv.
8.The author consider smoking a lesser evil by smoking kills or harm the smoker itself but not people around them. No,because smoking is a harms to those who take in second hand smoke.
9.The phrase 'criminal narcissists' tell about they are self centred and not considerate to the other person who beside them will harms the second hand smoke.
10.Yes. This is because Drinking over and smoking over will kills ourself by our healht become very poor or get cancer.
To all groups: Well done to all group members for having posted your group discussion's output!
1. After reading the first paragraph, we can simply deduce that the writer used to drink alcohol 12 years ago and now he completely abhors people who take in alcohol.
2. There are few reasons which made the writer’s view about drinking to change. Drinking and drunks used to fill him with hatred. Moreover he saw his close friends, even people of intelligence, wit and style changed to fools by liquor. He also saw his friends to destroy their marriages, abuse their children and destroy their careers. He even had to bury some people who died because of alcohol.
3. The author included some examples to support his view. Such as:
- In New Bedford, Mass, a 21 year old woman was beaten and repeatedly raped by a gang of drunks in a bar called the Big Dan’s. There were at least 15 spectators to her violation; they did nothing to prevent it. All of them were drunk or drinking.
- In New York, four teen aged boys were killed when a car driven by a fifth kid smashed into a concrete wall at 90 mph. The were all under the legal drinking age of 19; nevertheless they had managed to spend a long night drinking in a public bar, and got drunk enough to die.
4. The writer wrote this paragraph in order to provide knowledge of the facts in it which will keep the reader about what can happen to a person who drinks regularly.
5. Liquor is a strong alcoholic drink. As it is in liquid state and contains drugs the author considered it to be a wet drug.
6. Paragraph 7
7. The author wants the media to show the clips of destroyed teenagers, their broken and bleeding bodies after every beer commercial. He also wants the government to ban cigarette as well as alcohol advertisement from TV.
8. The writer implies smoker a lesser devil because smokers only kill themselves by their habit, while drinkers get on their wheels and kill strangers. They don’t know that the rest of us exist and they even don’t care about it.
We agree with the writer’s compliment.
9. The phrase 'criminal narcissists' tells us about the people who drink alot. They are self centered and they don't even bother about anyone else in this world. This is because when they are drunk their body system doesn't work properly.
10. Absolutely yes! No need to think about this matter.
This is because the author displayed the effects of drinking by including incidents that happened around him, provided us with alot of facts and even sharing his experinences. The author did not only mention the effects in this passage he even stated that the habit of drinking can be given off, which would be very helpful for someone who is willing to do so.
1.The author was an alcoholic earlier on in his life.He's not a religious person.
2.He has encountered several unpleasant incidences concerning alcohol such as ruined marriages and wrecked families.
3.He has seen his intelligent friends become fools and children being brutalized,and reading about car accidents due to alcohol.
4.He is trying to emphasize on the harmful effects of the wet drug.
5.It is as addictive and harmful as the other drugs but it is in liquid form.
6.Paragragh 7.
7.He wants them to ban the beer commercials,show the negative sides of drinking and to stop giving popular references to alcohol.
8.yes,because the smoker only affects himself but drunk drivers kill others instantly.
9.The author views drunks as self centered and selfish killers.
10.Yes to a great extent.However,one can be a responsible drinker so as to avoid unfortunate tragedies such as auto accidents.
Hi all! Thanks for the collective answers on "The Wet Drugs" comprehension questions. In the future I would encourage every group to actually rephrase your answers instead of just doing direct lifting of answers from the read passage. We will look more into this matter this week for the 3rd Reading, that is "Serving the Nation:The Universal Call".
"The Wet Angel"
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