日常聊天口语对话14篇-(8)狂喝滥饮Deadly drinking.doc

日常聊天口语对话14篇:(8)狂喝滥饮deadly drinking bart: theres a new resurgence in binge drinking (聚众饮酒作乐）among american college students.lisa: yes, ive head about it. so what?.bart: unfortunately, college women are gaining ground on （追上，接近，逼近.) men for the title of campus drunk.(校园酒鬼的称号）lisa: really? drinking among college students has been going on for decades. why are women drinking more now?bart: i dont know, but the percentage of college women drinking to get drunk has more than tripled over the past 15 years, says a new report from columbia university.lisa: i guess thats really not that surprising. women are beginning to assert themselves more in every aspect of society.bart: i know a lot of people are shrugging this off （对某事听之任知，不予重视）as just a teenage rite of passage, but its more serious than that. i read in usa today that alcohol is involved in 90% of all rapes, 80% of all vandalism （蓄意破坏公物或他人私有财产的行经）cases, 40% of all academic problems and 28% of all dropout （辍学）problems.lisa: i have to admit, that is shocking! i never realized that booze （酒，痛饮）was so connected with crime.bart: whats even worse is that as many as 360,000 of todays undergraduates ultimately will die from alcohol-related causes - more than will get advanced degrees.lisa: thats downright （彻底地，十分地）depressing. ill bet that fraternities （大学男生联谊会）and sororities （大学女生联谊会）have a lot to do with that.bart: youre right. students in frats （fraternities 的缩写）report drinking three times as much as the average student. also studies show that 25% of freshmen admit to binge drinking in comparison to 20% of seniors.lisa: arent there any campuses that are trying to do anything about this problem?bart: yes, as a matter of fact, the university of maryland found that 30% of its students actually preferred alcohol-free social events. officials offered cash awards fro groups sponsoring the best alcohol-free party. hey, would you like s