雅思听力提分训练素材：孕妇吸烟有害婴儿?

北京雅思培训,雅思备考资料,雅思网课,雅思培训机构,雅思保分班,雅思真题,雅思课程

本期雅思听力提分训练素材：怀孕时吸烟对婴儿安全吗?(Is Smoking Pot While Pregnant Safe For The

Baby?)本听力素材来自NPR，NPR新闻是美国的国家公共广播，纯公益，所以内容更加去纯粹，直击心灵。可作为雅思听力泛听训练的日常素材，坚持长期听，除了锻炼英语听力，还能积累雅思听力词汇。

英语泛听听力MP3素材下载：http://bbs.yibohua.con/thread-425040-1-1.html

雅思泛听原文：Is Smoking Pot While Pregnant Safe For The Baby?

DAVID GREENE, HOST:

This month, California became the world's largest jurisdiction with broad

legal access to marijuana. Adults in this state can now buy marijuana without a

doctor's prescription. But as Sarah Varney reports, obstetricians here are

worried about pregnant women getting the wrong message.

本月，加利福尼亚成为世界上最大的合法拥有大麻的司法管辖区。这个州的成年人可以不用医生的处方就买大麻。但Sarah

Varney报道，产科医生在这里担心孕妇得到错误的信息。

UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN #1: Please, Mommy.

SARAH VARNEY, BYLINE: Two-year-old Maverick Hawkins sits on a red, plastic

car in his grandmother's living room in Nevada City, a picturesque town in the

foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountains. His play pal Delilah Smith snacks on

hummus and delights over her Princess Peppa stuffie.

COMPUTER-GENERATED VOICE: I'm Princess Peppa (oinking).

VARNEY: It's playtime for the kids of the provocatively named Facebook group

Pot Smoking Moms Who Cuss Sometimes. Maverick's mother, Jenna Sauter, started

the group after he was born. She was 22 at the time and feeling lonely and

depressed.

JENNA SAUTER: I didn't want to have to, like, hide who I was, you know. I

wanted it to be, like, you know, friends who I could be open with, you know, and

be like, well, I do this, I do this, I enjoy going into river. I like to maybe

smoke a joint at the river.

VARNEY: There are nearly 2,600 members now in the Facebook group. Marijuana

is offered up as a harmless remedy for everything from morning sickness to

postpartum depression. Delilah's mom is Andria Smith. She's 21 and a week away

from her due date with her second child. She bristled recently at a doctor's

suggestion that she take half a Norco, a powerful pain pill, for her back pain

instead of smoking pot.

ANDRIA SMITH: She's like, well, we know more about Norco and blah, blah,

blah, and we don't know that much about marijuana. I was like, my kid can count

to 10 before she was even 2, and I smoked pot through my whole pregnancy. She's

not stupid.

VARNEY: Smith is not smoking in her third trimester because she doesn't want

her baby to test positive for pot. The drug's psychoactive compounds cross the

placenta, exposing the fetus to at least 10 percent of the THC that the mother

receives. It's unclear how many pregnant women in the United States use

marijuana. They may be reluctant to tell their doctors since it's considered

child abuse in at least 24 states.

But studies show a sharp jump in pot use among pregnant women. Dr. Dana

Gosset, an obstetrician at the University of California, San Francisco, says

marijuana adversely affects how a baby's brain develops.

DANA GOSSET: Children who have been exposed to marijuana while growing in the

womb have poorer performance on visual-motor coordination, visual tasks.

VARNEY: Like catching a ball or solving puzzles.

GOSSET: They may have behavioral problems at higher rates than other children

by the age of 14, and interestingly, they are at greater risk for initiating

marijuana use, and that is biologically plausible because the effects of the THC

in the brain may actually prime that child for addictive behavior, not just to

marijuana but potentially to alcohol as well.

VARNEY: The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists warns

breastfeeding moms to avoid pot exposure since some amount of THC passes into

the baby. But to Andria Smith's conviction that her daughter Delilah is just as

smart as her peers, studies show that children exposed to marijuana in utero

don't score worse on reading or math as they get older.

UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN #2: Phew.

VARNEY: Back in Nevada City, the play date of Pot Smoking Moms Who Sometimes

Cuss, has moved outside.

UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN #2: All right. Where were we?

UNIDENTIFIED CHILD: I want up.

UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN #2: You want up?

VARNEY: Sauter says parents are uncertain if they'll get in trouble using pot

now in California. Indeed, child protection laws in most states remain at odds

with liberal marijuana laws. Sauter and Andria Smith both had babies who tested

positive for THC just after birth and were visited at home by county social

services. Though now they never smoke in front of their children. Sauter says

some moms on her Facebook page won't go to the doctor even when they're

sick.

SAUTER: They don't want to get tested, and that's dangerous. I mean, you got

to be honest because if, like, something does go wrong, we got to know.

VARNEY: Obstetricians don't endorse mandatory testing of pregnant women or

newborn babies for THC over concerns that women could be jailed or their babies

taken away. But with recreational cannabis now legal in eight states, physicians

like Gosset are worried that young children whose brains are rapidly developing

will inhale pot smoke in their homes and come to know the world in an altered

state. I'm Sarah Varney in Nevada City, Calif.

GREENE: And Sarah is with our partner, Kaiser Health News.

雅思听力高频词汇

smoking pot 抽大麻

prescription 处方

pregnant 怀孕

living room 客厅

due date 到期日

back pain 背部疼痛

更多雅思听力训练素材，请关注易伯华雅思频道哦。