大学英语精读第二册 大学英语精读第二册Unit 7 Not on My Block.doc

大学英语精读第二册 大学英语精读第二册Unit 7 Not on My Block 导读：就爱阅读网友为您分享以下“大学英语精读第二册Unit 7 Not on My Block”资讯，希望对您有所帮助，感谢您对92的支持! People thought Ethel Armstead was crazy to stand up to the young men dealing drugs outside her house.But Ethel had had enough.Summoning up her courage,she went out to talk to the gang.this is the story of what happened. UNIT 7 Not on My Block Ethel Armstead liked the gray row house right off. It had an extra bedroom and a big backyard where her grandkids could play. The marble stoop would be a perfect spot to sit on summer evenings. But when Armstead arrived home from work that first night after moving in, she found a bunch of tough-looking young men sitting on her front steps. “Excuse me,” she said, startled. “I live here.” The group of seven young men rose reluctantly, staring at her with cold, hard eyes. Once inside, Armstead locked the door and peered out the window. She was surprised to see that the men had already reseated themselves on her steps. In coming weeks, Armstead learned that her house, long vacant, was used by drug dealers, who hid their drugs under the front steps. As a steady stream of cars and foot traffic passed by, the dealers conducted business on the stoop. Addicts shot up in the path behind the house and urinated in the backyard. Armstead had no illusions about the men who occupied her front steps. Almost every night for the ten years she had lived in the tough Oliver neighborhood of East Baltimore, she lay in bed listening to the sound of gunshots as the drug wars raged. But this house, with dealers hanging out on her stoop, was the worst. Sometimes she called the police several times a day, begging them to disperse the dealers. But once the police car disappeared down the street, the dealers drifted back. As a 50-something mother of grown children, Armstead had not imagined fighting this battle. But it wasn?t the first time she?d risen to an unexpected challenge. Back in the mid-1990s, when her own daughter was addicte