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Directions : Apply the knowledge you have gained from Chapter 13 to select the best answer to the questions about the following reading passages.
Safe Driving
1The major threat to the lives of college students isn't illness but injury. Almost 75 percent of deaths among Americans 15 to 24 years old are caused by "unintentional injuries" (a term public health officials prefer) , suicides, and homicides. Accidents, especially motor vehicle crashes, kill more college-age men and women than all other causes combined; the greatest number of lives lost to accidents is among those 25 years of age. One key factor in increasing your odds of staying safe on the road is staying sober and alert.
2The number of fatalities caused by drunk driving, particularly among young people, has dropped. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration attributes this decline to increases in the drinking age, to educational programs aimed at reducing nighttime driving by teens, to the formation of Students Against Destructive Decisions (SADD, originally called Students Against Drunk Driving) and similar groups, and to changes in state laws that lowered the legal blood-alcohol concentration level for drivers under age 21 (some states have zero tolerance blood-alcohol level for drivers under 21) . Although most drunk drivers are men, more young women are driving drunk and getting into fatal car accidents than ever before. More young women than men involved in deadly crashes had high blood-alcohol levels in a recent analysis of data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
3Falling asleep at the wheel is second only to alcohol as a cause of serious motor vehicle accidents. About half of drivers in the United States drive while drowsy. Nearly 14 million have fallen asleep at the wheel in the past year, according to the National Sleep Foundation. Men and young adults between the ages of 18 and 29 are at the highest risk for driving while drowsy or falling asleep at the wheel. In a recent study, adolescents who had at least one previous crash reported more nighttime driving, more occasions of driving while sleepy, bad sleep, and use of stimulants such as caffeinated soft drinks, tobacco, and drugs.
-adapted from Hales , An Invitation to Health: Choosing to Change , p. 420
What source does the author cite in the passage to show that drunk driving fatalities have dropped?
Total Institutions
Places of residence and work where a large number of like-situated individuals, cut off from the wider society for an appreciable period of time, together lead an enclosed, formally administered life.
Goffman
Erving Goffman, a Canadian-American sociologist known for his analysis of social interaction and the concept of the presentation of self in everyday life.
Functions
The roles or activities that an individual, system, or structure typically performs or is intended to perform within a particular context or system.
Mead's I and Me
Concepts from George Herbert Mead's social psychology theory that distinguish between the spontaneous, unorganized aspect of the self ('I') and the organized set of attitudes of others that one assumes ('Me').
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