Question

阅读下列短文，根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。把正确答案填在答题卡上。

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 give up 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 will be easier to change the smoking habit here. 

B. It is very hard to quit smoking.

C. Thus nicotine makes smokers addicted to cigarettes.   

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

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

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

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

 

Answer 1

1.A

2.E

3.D

4.B

5.G

【解析】

试题分析：文章大意：本文叙述了吸烟的人成瘾的原因以及吸烟的害处。香烟里有一种叫作尼古丁的毒。许多人刚开始吸烟，感到难受，过了一些日子他们就习惯了尼古丁。然后离不开它了。吸烟容易引起癌症和心脏病。但是戒烟很难，很多人戒了烟不久有吸起来了。

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