Read the following story. Circle the correct answers. Explain your choices.

The United States has one of the lowest (rate, rates) of car accidents in the world. Yet, every year about (44,000, 44.000) people (die, died, are dying) on the highways in (cars, car) accidents in the United States. Half of (this, these) (dead, deads, deaths) are (causing, cause, caused) by (drunk, drunks) drivers. Because of this, (strictest, stricter, more strict) laws (are passed, are passing, have been passed) recently. California has one of the (most strict, strictest) laws. This law states that if you kill someone while you are driving (intoxicate, intoxicated), you will (consider, be considered, be consider) a (murder, murderer) in the eyes of the law. This is a story about what happened to (a, the, -) thirty- (years, year) -old man in California.

One afternoon this man (drinks, drank, drunk, drunken) four bottles of beer at (a, the, -) bar. After (to finish, finished, finishing) his drinks, he got (into, onto, on) his car and (drive, drove) (of, off). He was speeding. He (run, ran) (through, into, at) a stop sign and crashed (through, into, to, at) another car (crossed, crossing, cross) the intersection. He didn't have enough time (to stop, for stopping). The car that was (strike, struck, stricken) was (been, being) driven by a mother; inside were her four children. All of the passengers (was killed, were kill, were killed). However, the drunk driver (didn't injure, wasn't injured) at all. When (a, the, -) police (was, were, -) arrived, (he, they) arrested the driver and (bringing, brought) him to court. There he was (indict, indicted) for murder. After a (two-months, month) trial, he was (found, find, founded) guilty of murder. He was (sentence, sentenced) to seventy-seven years in prison. While some (feel, fell, feels) his sentence was (justify, justified, justifying), others feel he was (sentence, sentencing, sentenced) (to, too) harshly because he had not planned the accident. However, those (in, on) favor of the sentence said this was not (the, -) first time he (has been, had been, was) arrested for drunk driving. (The last, Last) time he had his (driver, driver's) license (suspending, suspend, suspended) for six (months, month). This time his license has been (revoke, revoking, revoked) for life.

4.4 Discuss the following questions with group members.

1 What would have happened to the thirty-year-old drunk driver if he had had the accident in your country? Would his license have been revoked or suspended? Would he have been arrested? Would he have been given a heavy or light sentence? Would he have been looked down upon by society? Use passive voice in your answer.

2 How should the thirty-year-old driver have been sentenced? Explain why. Use passive voice in your answer.

3 Have you or anyone you know ever been in a car accident? Was your car damaged? Were you injured? Was anybody else hurt? Were you fined? Were you arrested? Was there any other property damage? Was your license taken away? Explain what happened.

4 In Maine, a passenger who allowed a drunken person to drive his truck was convicted as an accomplice to the crime of driving under the influence of alcohol. What do you think of this ruling?

5 In Florida, a mother won an $800,000 suit against an employer who allowed her son to drive home after serving him alcohol at a business social gathering. He died in a car accident. What do you think of this ruling?

4.5 Listen to the text “THE POLICE COMMISSIONER'S ADVICE” for the first time and answer the following questions:

1. How many characters are mentioned in the story?

2. What was the problem of the main character?

3. How many pieces of advice did the other characters give him?

4. Why did the main character refuse some of the advice?

5. Why did he accept some other pieces of advice?

6. What was the big surprise about?

7. What was the last thing the main character did in the story?

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