Question

    My college experience included this life-skill lesson: Drink alcohol on a full stomach. Or you will get inebriated too quickly. Of course, most college students shouldn’t be drinking at all, but we know from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism that close to 60 percent of college students aged 18 to 22 do consume alcohol, which makes harm-reducing approaches important.

Unfortunately, campus authorities and researchers are reporting a practice that turns the full-stomach drinking strategy on its head: rather than filling up before a night of partying, significant numbers of students refuse to eat all day before consuming alcohol.

This is a high-risk behavior called “drunkorexia,” which is one part eating disorder, one part alcoholism—a very dangerous combination for college-age students. The term drunkorexia, which can also include excessive exercise or purging before consuming alcohol, was coined about 10 years ago, and it started showing up in medical research around 2012. Drunkorexia addresses the need to be the life of the party while staying extremely thin, pointing to a flawed mind-set about body image and alcoholism among college students, mostly women.

Imagine this scenario: A female college freshman doesn’t eat anything all day, exercises on an empty stomach, then downs five shots of tequila in less than two hours. Because there’s no food in her system to help slow the absorption of alcohol, those shots affect her rapidly, leading to inebriation and possibly passing out, vomiting or suffering alcohol poisoning. That’s drunkorexia.

Tavis Glassman, professor of health education and public health at the University of Toledo in Ohio, researches drunkorexia and worries about scenarios such as the one described above: “With nothing in her system, alcohol hits quickly, and that brings up the same issues as with any high-risk drinking: sexual assault, unintentional injury, fights, hangovers that affect class attendance and grades, and possibly ending up in emergency because the alcohol hits so hard,” he says.

“Alcohol can negatively affect the liver or gastrointestinal system, it can interfere with sleep, lower the immune system and is linked to several types of cancers,” Hultin says.

1.What does the underlined word “inebriated” in paragraph 1 mean?

A.excited B.overwhelmed C.addicted D.drunk

2.We can infer from the passage that ________.

A.a large number of college students spend most of their nights partying

B.some college students refuse to eat before drinking alcohol to keep slim

C.There is a direct link between body image and consuming alcohol

D.female college student is more likely to be hurt if she drinks alcohol

3.Which of the following may Tavis Glassman agree with?

A.With more food in one’s system, he may suffer from the effects of alcohol slowly.

B.Drinking five shots of tequila in less than two hours is the performance of drunkorexia.

C.Those who don’t attend classes and have lower grades tend to be addicted to alcohol.

D.Alcohol has negative effects on the immune system and may lead to several cancers.

Answer

1.D

2.B

3.A

【解析】

这是一篇说明文。文章介绍有关大学生喝酒的事宜。饱腹喝酒，否则你就会很快喝醉。而一个人的身体里有了更多的食物，他会慢慢遭受酒精的影响。

1.词义猜测题。根据第一段中的Drink alcohol on a full stomach.(饱着肚子喝酒。)和Of course, most college students shouldn’t be drinking at all(当然，大多数大学生根本不应该喝酒。)，再根据句中的or(否则)，说明“空腹喝酒将会喝醉。”由此推知，划线词的意思是“喝醉酒”。故选D。

2.推理判断题。根据第二段中rather than filling up before a night of partying, significant numbers of students refuse to eat all day before consuming alcohol.(许多学生在喝酒前整天都不吃东西,而不是在一夜聚会前填饱肚子。)推断，一些大学生为了保持苗条而拒绝在喝酒之前吃东西。故选B。

3.推理判断题。根据第五段中With nothing in his system, alcohol hits quickly, and that brings up the same issues as with any high-risk drinking: sexual assault, unintentional injury, fights, hangovers that affect class attendance and grades, and possibly ending up in emergency because the alcohol hits so hard,(在他的身体里没有任何东西，酒精会迅速袭来，这就带来了与任何高风险饮酒相同的问题：性侵犯、意外伤害、打架、影响出勤率和成绩的宿醉，还可能因为酒精的作用太大而导致紧急情况的出现。)可推知，Tavis Glassman认为一个人的身体里有了更多的食物，他就会慢慢遭受酒精的影响，而没有任何食物，就会迅速受到酒精的影响。故选A。