III. 阅读理解
阅读下列短文,从每题所给的A、B、C、D选项中,选出最佳选项。
I’ve written 14 movies. My characters smoke
in many of them, and they look cool and glamorous doing it. Smoking was an
integral(必需的) part
of many of my screenplays because I was a heavy smoker. It was part of a
bad-boy image I’d cultivated for a long time— smoking, drinking, partying, rock
’n’ roll.
Smoking, I once believed, was every
person’s right. The second-hand smoke was non-existent problem invented by
professional do-gooders. I put all these views into my plays.
Remembering all this, I find it hard to
forgive myself. I have been an accomplice (帮凶) to the murders of untold numbers of human
beings. I am admitting this only because I have made a deal with God. Spare me,
I said, and I will try to stop others from committing the same crimes I did.
Eighteen months ago I was diagnosed with
throat cancer, the result of a lifetime of smoking. I am alive but disabled.
Much of my larynx (喉) is gone. I have some difficulty speaking; others have some
difficulty understanding me.
I haven’t smoked or drunk for 18 months
now, though I still take it day by day and pray for help. I believe in prayer
and exercise. I have walked five miles a day for a year, without missing even
one day. Quitting smoking and drinking has taught me the hardest lesson I’ve
ever learned about my own weakness; it has also given me the greatest affection
and empathy(同感) for
those still addicted.
I don’t think smoking is every person’s
right anymore. I think smoking should be as illegal as heroin. I’m no longer
such a bad boy. I go to church on Sunday. I’m desperate to see my four boys
grow up. I want to do everything I can to undo the damage I have done with my
own big-screen words and images.
Screen writers know, too, that some movie
stars are more likely to play a part if they can smoke —because they are so
addicted to smoking that they have difficulty stopping even during the shooting
of a scene.
My hands are bloody; so are Hollywood’s. My
cancer has caused me to attempt to cleanse me. I don’t wish my fate upon anyone
in Hollywood, but I beg that Hollywood should stop putting it upon millions of
others.
1. The main idea of this passage probably
is _________.
A. the writer is ashamed of the bad effects
his screenplays have had on human beings
B. the writer’s smoking experience nearly
killed himself
C. the bad effects that Hollywood
screenplay have brought to children
D. the determination of the writer to
overcome his illness
2. How do you think the writer has realized
his mistake?
A. So many people have found the habit of
smoking due to his plays.
B. His plays have brought great harm to
teenagers.
C. He himself suffered greatly from
smoking.
D. His screenplays have been doing more and
more harm to human beings.
3. What is the writer determined to do in
future?
A. He has made up his mind to give up
smoking forever.
B. He will try his best to prevent others
from writing screen plays encouraging smoking.
C. He will try his best to bring up his
four children.
D. He has decided to write his screenplays
without smoking scenes.
4. It can be inferred from the passage that
_______.
A. the writer will soon be recovered from
his illness thanks to his exercise
B. the writer will soon die because of his
deadly disease
C. smoking will be got rid of in all
Hollywood films
D. smoking in Hollywood films is still
doing great harm to human beings