Because of the different ways alcohol can affect your behavior even in very small amounts, the best and safest course is not to drink before you drive. If, however, you are of legal age, choose to drink, and can control your drinking, here is something to consider.
Alcohol passes through your stomach directly into the bloodstream and is carried to all parts of your body. Reaching your brain in small amounts, it promotes relaxation.
In large amounts, it makes dull the area of your brain that controls judgement and self-control. Losing these qualities, you may feet excited, lively, a bit unsteady or foolish.
Emotions affect your drinking style, and drinking, in turn, affects your emotions. When you are at ease, you may stop after the relaxing effect of one or two drinks. Angry, tense or under pressure, you may want to keep drinking to relieve these emotional stresses.
In heavier doses, alcohol can be a mood-changing drug, producing sudden shifts in feeling all the way from delight to anger. Studies have proven that a combination of alcohol and anger is responsible for much of the wildly careless driving that causes fatal highway accidents. One of the best defenses against drunk drivers is the proper wearing of a seat belt, which is newly required by law in New Jersey.
The only scientific way to check how much alcohol can affect you is by blood alcohol concentration (BAC). A simple breath test will show your BAC. And if alcohol is already in your bloodstream, eating won"t sober you up. Neither black coffee, cold showers, or hitting. Time and only time will help in recovering from a high BAC. According to the passage, drinking ______.
A．does no good to people B．does harm to drivers even when he does not drive C．in small amounts promotes relaxation D．makes people angry