53.
What
can we learn from the story?
A.
Giving is always a pleasure.
B.
People should respect each other.
C. An
act of kindness can bring people great joy.
D.
People should learn to appreciate others’ concern.
B
The legal limit for driving after drinking alcohol is 80
milligrams of alcohol in 100 milliliters of blood, when tested. But there is no
sure way of telling how much you can drink before you reach this limit. It
varies with each person depending on your weight, your sex, and what sort of
drinks you’ve had. Some people might reach their limit after only about three
standard drinks.
In fact, your driving ability can be affected by just one
or two drinks. Even if you are below the legal limit, you could still be taken
to court if a police officer thinks your driving had been affected by alcohol.
It takes about an hour for the body to get rid of the
alcohol in one standard drink. So, if you have a heavy drinking in the evening,
you might find that your driving ability is still affected the next morning, or
you could even find that you’re still over the legal limit. In addition, if
you’ve had a few drinks at lunchtime, another one or two drinks in the early
evening may well put you over the legal limit.
In a test with professional drivers, the more alcoholic
drinks they had had, the more certain they were that they could drive a test
course through a set of movable posts and the less able they were to do it!
So the only way to be sure you’re safe is not to drink at
all.
Alcohol is the major cause of road accidents. One in
three of the drivers killed in road accidents have levels of alcohol which are
over the legal limit, and road accidents after drinking are the biggest cause
of death among young men. More than half of people stopped by the police to take
a breath analyzer test have a blood alcohol concentration of more than twice
the legal limit.
It is important to remember that driving after you’ve
been drinking doesn’t just affect you. If you’re involved in an accident, it
affects a lot of other people as well, not only the person you might kill or
injure.
