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4H.Formative reading 1

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Tom & Jerry, Bad Influences?

Yesterday afternoon I ran across a story about Turner Broadcasting which is currently delving into its catalog of 1,500 hours of Hanna-Barbera cartoons to remove scenes that “glamorize” smoking. The move is in response to one viewer’s complaint about an episode of “Tom and Jerry.”

A Turner spokesperson said the viewer had complained about a cartoon in which Tom lights a cigarette in an attempt to 1…. a female cat and that only cartoons “where smoking could be deemed to be cool or glamorized,” would be cut and that scenes in which villains smoke will remain untouched.

2…. , this move will save a generation of youngsters from trying to woo cats with tobacco. Unfortunately, however, those same children are still in danger of dropping anvils on one another’s heads, putting each other’s tails in electrical sockets, cutting each other in half, poisoning one another, exploding each other with dynamite and other sundry weapons available from the diabolical Acme corporation. http://voices.washingtonpost.com, 2006
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1 Which of the following fits the gap in paragraph 2?

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How can the tone of paragraph 3 be characterised?

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Which of the following fits the gap in paragraph 3?

Sex? Yes. Fight? Yes. Smoke?

No. Mick Hume: Notebook 1

The Government’s latest wheeze is to raise the legal age for buying cigarettes from 16 to 18. So let me see if I have this straight. You will be able legally to have sex at 16 but the law won’t allow you a cigarette until two years later. Not even if you are married (legal age: 16). At 16, you will be old enough to join the Army and train to fight wars. But those teenage squaddies will not be allowed to smoke, because it is a health risk. Soon, 16-year-olds may even be able to vote, choosing who governs the country — but not to choose their brand of cigarettes. This confused and smoky state of affairs confirms that we no longer seem sure just where to slide a cigarette paper between being a child and an adult.

But of course smoking is bad for you, so who could dispute the benefits of raising the minimum age? Well, there is the Department of Health, whose consultation paper admits there is “little conclusive evidence” that it can stop young people smoking. Or the World Bank, which concludes that attempts to stop teenagers smoking via the law “have not been shown to be successful”.

I don’t want more teenagers to smoke, and certainly hope my young daughters never do. But I know that if they want to try it, I am unlikely to be able to stop them — and nor is the Public Health minister (our public health Supernanny) or indeed Superman himself. The smoking thing is a rite of passage and teenagers have to sort it out for themselves, however hard the long arm of the law tries to stub it out.

Indeed, since official statistics show that fewer under-16s smoke today than a decade ago, why is the Government rushing through a new law now? New Labour looks increasingly like a bored teenage smoker, hanging around aimlessly, looking for something to do that can make it appear smart and important. It’s not big, and it’s not clever.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk, 2007
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What do the examples in paragraph 1 (“You ... cigarettes.”) make clear with regard to the proposal to reduce smoking for under-18s?

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“the benefits … age” (alinea 2)
Het ‘Department of Health’ en de ‘World Bank’ zijn het eens dat roken slecht is voor jongeren. Waarover zijn ze het nog meer eens met betrekking tot het bovenstaande citaat? Begin je antwoord met: ‘Beide ….’

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“I am unlikely to be able to stop them” (alinea 3) Waarom vindt de schrijver dit? Citeer de eerste twee en de laatste twee woorden van het zinsgedeelte dat dit uitlegt.

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In alinea 4 geeft de schrijver nog een argument dat zijn standpunt over het nieuwe wetsvoorstel ondersteunt. In welk zinsgedeelte doet hij dat? Citeer de eerste twee woorden van dit zinsgedeelte.

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Welke van de volgende citaten bevat geen beeldspraak die met roken te maken heeft?

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Voor je vervolgstudie studeer je enkele maanden in Engeland. Van je docent heb je een lijst met titels van artikelen uit bepaalde tijdschriften gekregen die je moet bestuderen.

Geeft “How to use the Library Catalogue” aan hoe deze artikelen te vinden zijn? Zo nee, antwoord “Nee”. Zo ja, noteer onder welk kopje deze informatie te vinden is.