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Set Work

I. Transcribe and learn the following words:

escort concertina insidious daunting

warden a decrease prelude contraband

overburdened paraphernalia cartel beleaguered

intercept sever overall attributable

cache euphoria syndicate implicate

saturate inexorable anesthesia toll

ghastly acre inadvertently

II. Find out and say what is meant by:

a take-out restaurant (=a takeaway (Br)) baby-boom

gulag cartel

inner city beeper

metal detector cell phone

wasteland rest stop/rooms

coroner syndicate.

body bag

III. Say what you know about the units of weight mentioned in the article. In what connections were they used?

Ounce, pound, ton.

What other units of weight do you know?

IV. Reveal the difference between:

ache – pain, gather – gather up, to gather – to collect – to accumulate – to amass, to move in – to move out, to kill – to murder – to butcher – to slaughter – to assassinate – to slay – to massacre, to afflict – to affect – to effect.

V. Say how you understand:

a trafficking partner, turf, addiction, a fix, inmate, to afflict the country, child abuse, to stymie authorities, to drain coffers, eroded public confidence, an insidious effect, rampant (crime, disease), to bankrupt the justice system, a drug-and-crime spree, in large measure, to fight over market share, drive-by shootings/murder, to intercept, to raid, contraband kingpins, to net a cache of…, paraphernalia, to sweep, beleaguered, to sever drug-crime connection, to be tested positive for drugs, to saturate with sth, to smuggle in, to take toll, to sell sb into servitude to sb, to break up a fight, to wander into the crossfire, to fend off thugs, to come to terms with the loss.

VI. Learn the pronunciation of the following deadly drugs.

Crack, cocaine, hashish, bhang, marijuana, heroin, cannabis, methamphetamine.

VII. Give English equivalents for:

начальник тюрьмы; пристрастие; продавать, распространять наркотики; поддерживать наркотическую зависимость; заключенный; башня с охраной; на краю земли; преступление, связанное с употреблением или ввозом наркотиков; охватить страну; наносить неумолимый урон; осведомитель, доносчик; продать в рабство; облегчить боль; попасть в перестрелку; даваться, обходиться дорогой ценой; запугивать; сблизиться с кем-л.

VIII. Answer the following questions.

  1. What is the message of the poster mentioned in the article that read “Enough Tears, Stop the Killing of America”?

  2. Is America’s drug-related statistics daunting? Give examples.

  3. Has the brutality and irrationality of drug-related crimes created the perception that America is a lawless society? What’s the journalist’s stand? Back it up.

  4. What are the wages of addiction? What causes it, do you think? What is addiction fraught with?

  5. Are there any bright spots within the grim picture of rampant addiction, smuggling, and hustling?

  6. How can you prove that any progress in the war against drugs comes at a terrible cost?

  7. According to the article some men spiked a date’s cocktail with roofies and then raped her just before she passed out. What makes people commit rapes these days when the morality is rather loose and there are lots of prostitutes and tramps on off-their-free-will offer?

  8. Do you share a sense that a solution to a drug-and-crime problem is beyond reach or are there any ways to combat drug abuse? What’s in store for America? Do the statistics in this country impend the disaster? Should we legalize drugs?

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