Objectives
In this section, you will learn how to:
Part C. Second Challenge.
Listen to the cassette. Fill in the blanks. Then, answer the questions.
Crime is a serious problem in big cities and it is getting (1) ______ every year. This is what police departments around the country said in their reports last week. The subways and streets are more (2) ______. You may not even be (3) ______ in your own houses.
In this section, you will learn how to:
- respond to a hortatory exposition text.
- identify the structures of hortatory exposition text.
Part C. Second Challenge.
Listen to the cassette. Fill in the blanks. Then, answer the questions.
Crime in Cities
Crime is a serious problem in big cities and it is getting (1) ______ every year. This is what police departments around the country said in their reports last week. The subways and streets are more (2) ______. You may not even be (3) ______ in your own houses.
Why is the problem so serious now? This is not an easy question to answer. There may not be a (4)______ answer. Many problems together seem to make (5) _____ so dangerous from time to time.
One more of the problems is (6) ______. To fight crime a city needs police officers, cars,
and guns. These cost a lot of money. But right now cities do not have much extra money. So, there are not enough police officers, cars and guns for the cities.
Another problem is drugs. Crime studies have shown that many (7) ______ use and sell drugs. After they start taking drugs, they want to have more. However, drugs are very (8) ______. So, these people have to sell drugs to other people to make money or they may steal money to get more drugs.
There is an even more important cause of crime. Cities have rich and poor (9) ______. In the poor neighborhoods, jobs are hard to find. Many (10) ______ people don’t have much hope for a better life. They only know one way to make a better living for themselves, that way is to sell drugs or (11) ______. So, some of these young people have become criminals.
It is not going to be easy to change these crime problems. We must first change many of laws about drugs. We must change the way cities spend their money. Until then, the crime problem will not go away and we will live our lives (12) ______ .
Find out:
- Why does the writer say that crime in cities is getting worse?
- Why is money part of the crime problem?
- What do young people in poor neighborhood do to earn money?
- What is the relationship between drug and crime?
- What is the purpose of the writer writing this text?
- How many reasons did he mention to support his arguments?
- Are the writer’s arguments supported by evidence and examples?
- Which part of the text contains the advice of the writer to do something better?
- What tense are mostly used in the text above?
- Is the text an exposition or hortatory exposition?
Derived from: Look Ahead 2 for Senior High School Students Year XI. p. 186.
