Question

Ali is from a Middle Eastern country. He now stays in the USA. He smokes a lot of cigarettes every day. He has smoked for nine years. Ali says, “ I tried to quit (放棄) smoking in my hometown, but it was impossible. My parents smoke. My brothers smoke. All my friends smoke. At parties and at meetings, almost all the men smoke. Here in the United States, not as many people smoke. ____1.____ ”

Many smokers are like Ali: they want to stop smoking. ____2.___ They know it can cause cancer and heart disease. But it is difficult for them to give up smoking because cigarettes have a drug in them. The drug is nicotine. People who smoke a lot need nicotine.

____3.____ The nicotine makes him sick. In a few days, the smoker’s body is used to the nicotine, and he feels fine. Later, the smoker needs nicotine to keep feeling fine. Without nicotine, he feels bad.

_4.____ Many people who quit will soon smoke again. At a party or at work they will decide to smoke “just one” cigarette. Then they will smoke another cigarette, and another. Soon they become smokers again. ___5.____

A. It is very hard to quit smoking.

B. It will be easier to change the smoking habit here.

C. Thus nicotine makes smokers addicted to cigarettes.

D. The smokers know that smoking is bad for their health.

E. When a person first begins to smoke, he usually feels terrible.

F. Maybe there is only one easy way to quit smoking: never start.

G. But it is said that medicine is needed to stop them from smoking.

Answer 1

1.B

2.D

3.E

4.A

5.F

【解析】

試題分析： 吸煙者一旦開始吸煙就很難戒掉，也許唯一可以戒煙的方式是：永遠不要開始吸煙。

1.前面說到阿里在家鄉(xiāng)時周圍親戚朋友們?nèi)�都吸煙，戒煙很難Here in the United States, not as many people smoke. 而在美國吸煙人不多，因此在美國改變吸煙的習慣更容易些。填B。

2.根據(jù)空格前后內(nèi)容得知，很多像阿里的人想要戒煙，她們知道吸煙會有很多疾病產(chǎn)生，對身體不好。填D。

3.根據(jù)下文，尼古丁一開始使吸食者虛弱，幾天后，身體就適應尼古丁了，因此前面在講一開始吸食尼古丁的情況。選E。

4.根據(jù)下文得知很多剛戒煙的人很快又開始吸煙，因此得知前面在講很難戒煙。選A。

5.吸煙的人洗完一根又想吸另一根，最后總結出也許戒煙只有一條容易的路：永遠不要開始吸煙。選F。

考點：社會現(xiàn)象類文章