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Directions: ANSWER USING COMPLETE SENTENCES! Use the information you have been given to answer questions about: Anabolic Steroids and Sports.
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Level#1
Certain kinds of steroids are drugs that build muscles and strength. Steroids are actually hormones, or chemicals made by the body. Women who use body-building steroids often look more masculine. In both men and women, artificial steroids can cause skin and stomach problems, and hurt the liver.
1. What types of problems can women or men have if they use artificial steroids?
2. How do body-building steroids change the way women look if they use them?
3. What are steroids?
4. When Elie Wiesel first arrives at the concentration camp who does he stay with?
Level#2
Certain kinds of steroids are drugs that build muscles and strength. Steroids are actually hormones, or chemicals made by the body. Women who use body-building steroids often look more masculine. In both men and women, artificial steroids can cause skin and stomach problems, and hurt the liver. Some professional athletes use steroids even though steroids are illegal. They say that almost everyone uses them anyway. They claim there is no way to win if you do not use steroids. Athletes who do not use steroids think that the drugs give the user an unfair advantage.
Certain kinds of steroids are drugs that build muscles and strength. Steroids are actually hormones, or chemicals made by the body. Women who use body-building steroids often look more masculine. In both men and women, artificial steroids can cause skin and stomach problems, and hurt the liver. Some professional athletes use steroids even though steroids are illegal. They say that almost everyone uses them anyway. They claim there is no way to win if you do not use steroids. Athletes who do not use steroids think that the drugs give the user an unfair advantage.
1. In both men and women, what physical problems can happen if they use artificial steroids?
2. What do some professional athletes say and claim with regard to the use of steroids?
3. What do athletes that do not use steroids think?
4. When Elie Wiesel first arrives at the concentration camp he is with his father, mother, and younger sister. What happens to the family shortly after they arrive?
Level#3
Certain kinds of steroids are drugs that build muscles and strength. Steroids are actually hormones, or chemicals made by the body. Women who use body-building steroids often look more masculine. In both men and women, artificial steroids can cause skin and stomach problems, and hurt the liver. Some professional athletes use steroids even though steroids are illegal. They say that almost everyone uses them anyway. They claim there is no way to win if you do not use steroids. Athletes who do not use steroids think that the drugs give the user an unfair advantage. Before most important sports events, such as the Olympics, athletes are tested for steroid use. If an athlete is found to have used a steroid, he or she is not allowed to compete.
Certain kinds of steroids are drugs that build muscles and strength. Steroids are actually hormones, or chemicals made by the body. Women who use body-building steroids often look more masculine. In both men and women, artificial steroids can cause skin and stomach problems, and hurt the liver. Some professional athletes use steroids even though steroids are illegal. They say that almost everyone uses them anyway. They claim there is no way to win if you do not use steroids. Athletes who do not use steroids think that the drugs give the user an unfair advantage. Before most important sports events, such as the Olympics, athletes are tested for steroid use. If an athlete is found to have used a steroid, he or she is not allowed to compete.
1. Before most important sports events, such as the Olympic Games, what are most athletes tested for?
2. What happens to an athlete if he or she is tested, and found to have used steroids before an important sporting event, such as the Olympic Games?
3. What are the reasons, that some professional athletes give, for why they choose to use steroids, even though, they know what they are doing is illegal?
4. When Elie Wiesel first arrives at the concentration camp with his father, mother, and younger sister, what is it, that he states in the text, that he did not know at that point in time?
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