六级考试推荐阅读练习（2）_大学英语阅读

六级考试推荐阅读练习（2）

　　And these results held even when researchers controlled for factors like socioeconomic status and psychological distress, which are also correlated with rates of drug use.

　　correlate n. 有相互关系的东西，相关物 v. 1. 使有相互关系，使相互关联 2. 互相有关系 adj. 相关的，关连的

　　So why might smarter kids be more likely to try drugs? People with high IQs are more likely to score high on personality scales of openness to experience, says White. They may be more willing to experiment and seek out novel experiences.

　　Another factor could be that the messages used to attempt to deter teens from drug use particularly during the 1980s in the U.K. when the study group was in adolescence werent exactly known for the subtlety of their reasoning, so they may not have targeted the smarter group well.

　　deter v. 制止;阻止

　　What you typically find is that people with high IQs are less likely to smoke , more likely to be active and to have a good diet, says White, noting that they are also likely to have high socioeconomic status. People in this group tend to make healthy choices, based both on health information and their own experience.

　　socioeconomic status 社会经济地位;社会经济状况

　　This group isnt likely to see occasional drug use as particularly harmful, White says, both because there is little data to suggest great risk of harm from such use and because evidence of harm is rare among their peers. With smoking, the evidence is overwhelming, says White, whereas when you look at things like cannabis use, since they are more likely to associate with people who are similar to them, they are likely to see that smoking cannabis relatively infrequently doesnt have huge impact.