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12.[1]The fact that cigarette smoking is dangerous to your health is hardly new information.Cigarette smoking is the single most preventable cause of disease and early death in the United States.So why do so many teens continue to smoke?There are lots of reasons,you usually start for one reason or another and then it is really hard to quit.[2]Nicotine acts in the brain where it can help develop feelings of pleasure,and pleasure feels good!It also will work as an appetite suppressant(抑制剂) for many people; other people believe it relieves stress.This may help explain why it is hard __________.
[3]Experimental smoking usually begins the habit.Next comes occasional cigarette smoking at parties,on weekends,with friends or when trying to lose weight.This is the most dangerous stage,because it usually leads to an addictive stage,when teens become regular smokers. People who start smoking before the age of 21 have the hardest time quitting.
[4]There is no safe amount of smoking.Every cigarette causes some harm to the body.Once smoke touches the lips,it begins to attack living tissues,and it continues its attack wherever it goes.Cigarette smokers have less ability to carry oxygen to the rest of the body and this is why smokers have less endurance(耐力) when running or participating in sports.
[5]Smokers also get wrinkles at an earlier age.The smoke changes the elasticity(弹性) of the skin and fine lines appear around the eyes and mouth.Your clothes and hair will smell from smoke and pretty soon you can no longer smell it.Kissing a smoker is like kissing an ashtray(烟灰缸).
[6]There is no right way to quit smoking,but surely you can do it!
[7]If you are thinking about smoking,the only way to avoid getting addicted to cigarettes is never to start in the first place.
76.What should teens do according to the advice in the article?(no more than 15 words)Teens should either stop or not/never start smoking.
77.Which sentence in the text is the closest in meaning to the following one?The fact that cigarette smoking is dangerous to your health is hardly new information.
It's already known that smoking is likely to cause illness.
78.Fill in the blank in Para 2 with proper words.(no more than 5 words)for smokers to stop/(for people) to stop smoking
79.What bad effects does smoking have besides harming health?(no more than 20 words)Smokers also get wrinkles at an earlier age and their clothes and hair get smelly.
80.Translate the underlined sentence in Para 3 into Chinese.因为这个阶段会导致青少年上瘾,从而成为正式烟民,所以这是最危险的时期..
分析 本文提及很多人抽烟,以及学会抽烟的一些原因,并告诉抽烟所带来的一些危害.
解答 76.Teens should either stop or not/never start smoking.概括题.通过全文的叙述可知,抽烟对青少年的危害,所以建议青少年要么戒烟要么一开始就不要吸烟.
77.The fact that cigarette smoking is dangerous to your health is hardly new information.提供的这句话意思是众所周知,抽烟可能造成疾病.言下之意,抽烟有对健康是危害的.
78.for smokers to stop/(for people) to stop smoking 细节题.第二段将抽烟可以给人带来快乐,也可以起到抑制作用,所以对于抽烟人来说很难戒烟.
79.Smokers also get wrinkles at an earlier age and their clothes and hair get smelly.细节题,在第五段提到抽烟的另外一方面还出,Smokers also get wrinkles at an earlier age即在很早的时候就开始出现皱纹.
80.因为这个阶段会导致青少年上瘾,从而成为正式烟民,所以这是最危险的时期.
或者:这是最危险的时期,因为它是上瘾的前奏,青少年一旦上瘾,吸烟就成了习惯.翻译时要注意三个要点:the most dangerous stage最危险时期; lead to an addictive stage导致上瘾阶段; become regular smokers成为正式烟民.
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The answer in two words:parental (39)C.Those two words best summarize the (40)A between"old"child raising and new,post-1960s parenting.Then,the overall philosophy was that parents were not to be (41)C involved with their kids.They were available (42)A crisis,but they stood a (an) (43)Bdistance from their kids and allowed them to experience the benefits of the trial-and-error process.It was the child's (44)C,back then,to keep his or her parents from getting involved.That was (45)B children learned to be responsible and determined.
Today's parents help their kids with almost everything.These are parents who are (46)Awhen it comes to an understanding of their purpose in their kids,lives.Their involvement leads them to personalize everything that happens to their kids; (47)D,the defensiveness.But given that schools and mental health professionals have been pushing parent involvement for nearly four decades,the confusion and defensiveness are (48)C.
University researchers analyzed three decades of data relating to parent participation in children's academics.Their conclusions (49)A what I've been saying since the 1980s:parental help with homework (50)B a child's academic achievement and is not reflected on standardized tests.
Parents who manage a child's social life interfere with the (51)D of good social skills.Parents who manage a child's after-school activities grow kids who don't know how to (52)C their own free time.Parents who get involved in their kids,(53)B with peers grow kids who don't know how to avoid much less trouble.
These kids have anxieties and fears of all sorts and don't want to leave their (54)A.And their parents,when the time comes,don't know how to (55)D being parents.You can imagine what will become of their future.
36.A.counted on | B.resulted in | C.touched on | D.taken in |
37.A.associated | B.linked | C.compared | D.matched |
38.A.parents | B.adolescents | C.psychologists | D.youths |
39.A.assistance | B.protection | C.involvement | D.preference |
40.A.differences | B.similarities | C.choices | D.relations |
41.A.slightly | B.passively | C.highly | D.fairly |
42.A.in case of | B.in spite of | C.in view of | D.in fear of |
43.A.equal | B.safe | C.long | D.short |
44.A.fault | B.turn | C.job | D.attitude |
45.A.when | B.how | C.why | D.what |
46.A.confused | B.disappointed | C.amazed | D.satisfied |
47.A.however | B.still | C.yet | D.thus |
48.A.unreasonable | B.changeable | C.understandable | D.avoidable |
49.A.confirmed | B.convinced | C.realized | D.reflected |
50.A.decides | B.lowers | C.helps | D.stimulates |
51.A.appearance | B.performance | C.establishment | D.development |
52.A.value | B.devote | C.fill | D.save |
53.A.communication | B.conflicts | C.cooperation | D.competitions |
54.A.home | B.school | C.career | D.profession |
55.A.start | B.ignore | C.consider | D.stop |
A.offers B.influences C.uncovered D.exactly E.big F.found G.campaigns H.involved J.properly I.notion |
Now a new study by professor Uri takes another look at the so-called name-letter effect and (43)offers other explanations for the phenomenon.He analyzed records of political donations in the U.S.during the 2004campaign-which included donors'names and employers-and found that the name of a person's workplace more closely related to the first three letters of a person's name than with just the first letter.But he suggests that the reason for the association isn't implied self-esteem,but perhaps something (44)exactly the opposite.
Duyck,one of the researchers whose previous work(45)uncovered the name-letter effect,isn't so quick to abandon the implied self-esteem theory.He pointed out that the sample group Uri studied may have biased the results:Uri analyzed the name-letter effect in a sample of people who donated money to political (46)campaigns.Still,Duyck notes that Uri's theories are credible,and that even while some people may (47)found the same name of companies,employees may be tending to those companies because they start with the same letter as their names.In the end,whatever the explanation for the name-letter effect,no one really disputes that self-esteem is (48)involved on some level.But the true importance of the effect is up for debate."I can't imagine people don't like their own letter more than other letters,"says Uri,"but the differences it makes in really (49)big decisions are probably slim."
A. | regularly | B. | steadily | C. | suddenly | D. | constantly |