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No Drugs No DrugsMy name is Adam Rouse. I'm 19 years old and I used to be a drug addict. I first started using drugs when I was 15. 我的名字叫亚当.罗斯。我今年十九岁了，我过去曾是一个吸毒上瘾者。我第一次使用毒品是十五岁的时候。 I bought cannabis from a man in the street. I continued to buy cannabis from the same man for about six months. 我在街上的一个男人那里买了大麻。大概六个月的时间我都持续从同一个男人那里买大麻。 One day, he offered me some crack cocaine. 一天，他卖给我了一些快克可卡因。 Article 2 Cocaine is a powerfully addictive drug. Some drug users inject cocaine, others smoke it. 可卡因是一种极其容易让人上瘾的毒品。有些吸毒者注射可卡因，有些人吸食可卡因。 Both ways are dangerous. Users who inject the drug are also in more danger if they share needles with other users. 两种方式都是很危险的。注射毒品的人如果和其他人共用注射针的话，就更危险了。 Read parts 1-6 and decide which article they belong to. 读 1——6 部分，判定它们分别属于哪一篇文章。 Crack cocaine is the most addictive form of cocaine. Users become addicted to crack cocaine much more easily if they smoke it. 快克可卡因是可卡因中最容易上瘾的一种。吸毒者抽快克可卡因的话，更容易对它上瘾。 Smoking allows cocaine to reach the brain very quickly. 因为，抽烟会把可卡因很快地运输到大脑。 When I went back to the man again, I wanted more crack cocaine. But he asked me for a lot of money. 当我再次回到那个男人那里时，我想多要些快克可卡因。但是他开了很高的价。 I didn't have enough money so he didn't give me any drugs. I was in terrible pain. 我钱不够，所以他就没有卖给我。我当时非常的痛苦。 next day, I broke into a house and stole a television and a video recorder. I took them to the drug dealer. 第二天，我闯进一间房子，偷了一台电视机和一个录音机。我把它们拿到贩毒者那里。 He told me to take them to a shop in a nearby street. The man in the shop gave me some money. 他让我把东西拿到附近的商店。商店的人给我一些钱。 I took the money to the drug dealer and he gave me some more crack cocaine. 我拿着钱到了贩毒者那里，他给了我一些快克可卡因。 Using cocaine increases the user's heart rate and blood pressure. As a result, cocaine users sometimes have heart attacks. 吸食可卡因加快了吸食者的心率、增高了血压。结果，可卡因吸食者有时就会心脏病发作。 Smoking crack cocaine also causes anti-social behaviour. 抽快克可卡因会导致反社会行为。 By this time, I was addicted to crack cocaine. If I didn't have any drugs, I was in terrible pain. 到这时候，我对快克可卡因已经上瘾了。如果我不吸毒的话，就会感到非常的痛苦。 And I had to steal something every day to pay for the drugs. One day, the police took me to the police station. 所以我每天不得不偷东西来支付买毒品的钱。一天，警察把我抓到了警察局。 The next day, a doctor came to see me. He told me that I could die if I didn't stop taking crack cocaine, so I took his advice and stopped immediately. 第二天，一位医生来看望我。他告诉我说如果我不停止吸食快克可卡因的话我就会死，所以我听取了他的意见，于是立即停止了。 Now I work in a centre for drug addicts, helping others to stop taking drugs. 现在我在一个戒毒中心工作，帮助他人停止吸食毒品。 Read the articles again and decide if these sentences are true (T) or false (F). 再读一遍这篇文章，判断下面的句子的正误。 Cocaine can be smoked and also injected. 可卡因可被吸食也可被注射。 People who inject cocaine are in more danger if they share needles. 注射毒品的人如果和其他人共用注射针的话，就更危险了。 Cocaine makes your heart go more slowly. 可卡因会使你的心脏跳得更慢。 Smoking crack cocaine can change people's behavior. 吸食快克可卡因能改变人们的行为。 By this time, I was addicted to crack cocaine. If I didn’t have any drugs, I was in terrible pain. And I had to steal something every day to pay for the drugs. One day, the police took me to the police station. The next day, a doctor came to see me. HE told me that I could die if I didn’t stop taking crack cocaine, so I took his advice and stopped immediately. Now I work in a centre for drug addicts, helping others to stop taking drugs.
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