Foscari - Dipartimento di Scienze Ambientali, Informatica e Statistica
Foscari - Dipartimento di Scienze Ambientali, Informatica e Statistica
Foscari - Dipartimento di Scienze Ambientali, Informatica e Statistica
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Cologne and antiseptic: Russia’s killer drinks<br />
Level 1 Elementary<br />
Fill the gaps using these key words from the text.<br />
life expectancy birth rate death rate lifestyle compare<br />
household products <strong>di</strong>et suicide aftershave tragedy<br />
1. ____________ are things you use at home, such as perfumes, cleaning liquids and shampoos.<br />
2. A person’s ____________ is the food that he or she normally eats.<br />
3. A ____________ is a very sad situation.<br />
4. The ____________ is the official number of births each year in a particular country.<br />
5. Your ____________ is the way you live your life.<br />
6. A person’s ____________ is the number of years they will probably live.<br />
7. The ____________ is the official number of deaths each year in a particular country.<br />
8. ____________ is a liquid with a nice smell that a man puts on his face after shaving.<br />
9. If you ____________ two things, you think about the ways in which they are the same or <strong>di</strong>fferent.<br />
10. ____________ means killing yourself.<br />
Key words<br />
Find the information<br />
Look in the text and find this information as quickly as possible.<br />
1. What percentage of murders in Russia are linked to alcohol?<br />
2. What percentage of suicides in Russia are linked to alcohol?<br />
3. How much pure alcohol does the average Russian drink each year?<br />
4. How much alcohol do some household products contain?<br />
5. What is the life expectancy for men in Russia?<br />
6. What is the life expectancy for women in Russia?<br />
Cologne and antiseptic: Russia’s killer drinks<br />
Sarah Boseley, health e<strong>di</strong>tor, and Luke Har<strong>di</strong>ng in Moscow<br />
June 15, 2007<br />
A new me<strong>di</strong>cal study about alcoholism reports that almost half the men of working age who <strong>di</strong>e in<br />
Russia <strong>di</strong>e as a result of alcohol. The report says that large numbers of Russian men <strong>di</strong>e young not just<br />
because they drink a lot of vodka but because they also drink household products containing alcohol,<br />
such as perfume, aftershave and me<strong>di</strong>cines. Some products contain 95% alcohol.<br />
An international group of scientists looked at one city in the Ural mountains. They wanted to <strong>di</strong>scover<br />
the effects of drinking in Russia. They chose the city of Izhevsk because it is a typical industrial city<br />
where life is the same as in other large cities in Russia and where the death rate is the same as the<br />
Russian average. The scientists wanted to find out why life expectancy in Russia is so low: in 2004 it<br />
was 59 years for men and 72 for women. As a result of the low life expectancy and a low birth rate, the<br />
population of Russia is falling by 700,000 a year.<br />
Alcohol has always been an important factor in death and <strong>di</strong>sease in Russia. Changes in the death rate<br />
which are linked to changes in lifestyle and politics support this fact. Life expectancy increased during<br />
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