大二上学期基英课文.ppt

* I. Plausibility of legalization (para. 1) II. Reasoning (paras. 2-8) A. rebuttal of the danger of a whiff of opium (para 2) B. The freedom to do what one wants (para 3) C. rebuttal of the warning rumble that legalization will lead us to end up a race of Zombie. (para 4) D. a consequence of prohibition: making people want it more (para 5) E. the negative effects of the prohibition (paras. 6-7) F. The consequences of a slight reduction in the supply of marijuana (para 8) III. Conclusion: unlikelihood of legalization (9-10) 1. Thesis of Drugs Simply make all drugs available and sell them at cost. (Para.1) just make all drugs easy to get and sell them without profit. (1) simply: used for emphasizing that what you are saying is nothing more than what you say it is. e.g. I didn’t go to the movie simply because I didn’t like the way they promoted it. (2) at cost: for only the amount of money that is needed to make or get sth, without making any profit. e.g. When the salesman said they were selling their products at cost, I didn’t believe him. 2.Label each drug with a precise description of what effect the drug will have on the taker.(para.1) label sth with: to fix a label on sth; to write information on sth. e.g. The secretary labeled each file with its contents. Notice that the writer is careful in his choice of word. He uses “taker” rather than “addict” because he thinks only a number of the takers end up addicts. 3.This will require heroic honesty.(para.1) It requires courage to tell the truth because many people have vested interests in creating the myth. 4.Don’t say that marijuana is addictive and dangerous when it is neither—unlike “speed”, which kills most unpleasantly, or heroin, which is addictive and difficult to kick.(para.1) Don’t exaggerate the harmful effect of marijuana. It is neither addictive nor dangerous, as it is often described. Differentiate it from “speed”