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媒體英語會帶大家一起學習BBC撰稿人在報道世界大事時常用到的單詞和短語。
Background: 背景：蘇格蘭政府部長們說，他們計劃開始實施酒類商品最低售價以對付該國日益嚴重的酗酒問題。目前蘇格蘭的酒銷量占居世界第八位，也是全歐洲肝臟疾病死亡率最高的地區。
Questions: 請在聽下面錄音的時候試著回答這些問題。這是一個用來幫助你提高聽力技能的練習。
1. What alcoholic drink from Scotland is sold all over the world?
2. What language other than English is spoken in Scotland?
3. Why are people in Scotland drinking more now than in the past?
4. What are the social consequences of drinking too much according to the report?
Scotland’s Drink Problem 蘇格蘭的酗酒問題
Scotland's had a close relationship with alcohol 酒/酒精 for hundreds of years.
Scotch whisky 威士忌 generates vast export revenues 巨大的出口收入 and drink has long been a part of social occasions: dances, weddings and even funerals 葬禮.
Offering a drink is a gesture of hospitality 熱情好客的一種表示.
Gaelic 蓋爾語 speakers have a phrase for it: a wee deoch an dorus or one for the road. But other Northern European nations have also had a tradition of heavy drinking.
The trouble for Scotland is that our consumption 消費 now outstrips 超過了 that of Norway, Finland and even Russia.
The Scottish government says one of the reasons is that drink has become 70% more affordable 有能力支付的 here over the last 30 years but shop-keepers who sell alcohol say they're not to blame.
"If people drink too much it is not up to shopkeepers to decide that. It needs to be tackled 對付，解決 from an educational and a social point of view rather than merely legislation 立法. It is not the shopkeeper's duty to police what people drink."
The evidence of Scotland's steadily worsening booze 酗酒 habit is clear.
It plays a big part in all crime and especially violent crime, and drink places a huge strain 沉重的負擔 on the health service.
40,000 people are taken to hospital every year with alcohol-related illness 和酗酒有關的疾病.
Scottish pubs can be lively, friendly places, but alcohol has come to play a central role in the lives of too many Scots.
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Answers
1. What alcoholic drink from Scotland is sold all over the world?
Scotch whisky is exported globally.
2. What language other than English is spoken in Scotland?
Gaelic.
3. Why are people in Scotland drinking more now than in the past?
Alcohol has become 70% cheaper in recent years.
4. What are the social consequences of drinking too much according to the report?
Alcohol abuse increases crime and illness.
