Question

阅读下面短文，回答后面的问题。(共5小题；每小题2分，共10分。)

[1]The cigarette industry began in the 1870s with the development of the cigarette manufacturing machine. This made it possible to produce great numbers of cigarettes very quickly. And it reduced the price.

[2] Today cigarette smoking is a wide –spread habit . About forty percent of the adult men and thirty –one percent of the adult women in the US smoke cigarettes regularly. It’s encouraging to note, however, that millions of people have given up smoking habit. Seventy-five percent of the male population and forty-six percent of the female population have smoked cigarettes at some time during their lives, but twenty-six percent of these men and eleven percent of the women have stopped smoking. The number of the persons who have given up smoking is increasing.

[3]Income. education, and occupation all play in determining a person’s smoking habit. City people smoke more than people living on farms. Well-educated men with high incomes are less likely to smoke cigarettes than men with fewer yeas of schooling and lower income. On the other hand. If a well-educated man with a higher income smokes at all, he is likely to smoke more packs of cigarettes per day.

 [4]                     . There are slightly more smokers among women with higher family incomes and higher education than among the lower incomes and lower education group, These more highly educated women tend to smoke more heavily,

 [5]Among teenagers the picture is similar. High school students who are preparing for college are less likely to smoke than those who do not plan to continue their education after high school. Children are most likely to start smoking if one or both of their parents smoke.

What is the reason for the cigarette industry’s fast growth?(no more than 11words)

                                                                         

Translate the underlined sentence in Paragraph 4 into Chinese.

                                                                        

.What’s the general idea of Paragraph2 (no more than 10 words)

                                                                         

Fill in the blank in Paragraph 4 with proper words.(no more than 8words)

                                                                             

Which sentence in the text is closest in meaning to the following one?

More and more people in the US have given up smoking.

                                                                        

Answer 1

【小题1】With the development of the cigarette manufacturing machine

【小题2】略

【小题3】The number of adults who smoke in the US.

【小题4】The situation is somewhat different for women.

【小题5】The number of the persons who have given up smoking is increasing.

解析:

略