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　　I think cigarette smoking is highly addictive (上瘾) and very expensive. Especially when you're 14 and get a $ 9 weekly allowance. I'm in ninth grade and started smoking in sixth.

　　The first cigarette I ever had was in fifth grade. My mom was walking our dogs and found an unopened pack that she brought home to use as an insecticide (杀虫剂) in the garden. A friend had told her that tobacco stops ants from attacking plants. Of course, when I found the pack, I took the cigarettes to my bedroom and being the little rebel I was, lit one with matches I stole from Dad．

　　I didn't get a buzz, because I didn't inhale (吸气) but just the fact I was actually smoking made me think I was cool. But my friend Donna didn't think so. She just looked at me like I was the stupidest thing on earth. Which I probably was, because still smoke to this day.

　　I've tried to quit, but it's very bard since most of my friends smoke too. When I started smoking regularly at the beginning of sixth grade, not that many students smoked; by the end of the year, a lot were smoking. It was pretty bad．Some kids grades get down, including mine, from skipping closes to get nicotine (尼古丁) into their systems. Now, in ninth grade, I'm still smoking.

　　About five months after I started cigarettes, I began smoking marijuana (大麻). There's no doubt in my mind that cigarettes are a gateway drug. Almost everyone I know started smoking before doing drugs. That has to tell you something.

　　Since I've smoked, I can smoke. I can hardly run around the block without getting out of breath. My mom quit smoking 18 years ago, and my dad stopped 14 years ago. My morn now has cancer, and my dad had bad three heart attacks. My grandma quit nine years ago, and she has emphysema (肺气肿). Not only that ---- my two grandfathers died from the results of smoking. After all this, you'd think I'd know better than continue.

　　Kids of teenagers who think smoking is cool or who want to try it: don't! It might make you feel calmer when you're really worked up, but 20 years from now you could find yourself really calmed down. You, too, could get emphysema, lung cancer, mouth cancer and much more.

　　I have told my parents that I will try to stop smoking as a present to them. But I hate the thought of never having another cigarette. You see-- no ifs, ands, or buts---- I'm really hooked．

(1)The writer's purpose in writing the article is ________.

[　　]

A．to warn to the adult not to smoke

B．to advise the youth not to smoke

C．to force parents to stop smoking

D．to ask the school to forbid smoking

(2)The writer began to smoke when she was only ________.

[　　]

(3)Which of the following statements is true in the article?

[　　]

A．No one is able to give up smoking when he is young.

B．Everyone who does drugs has to learn to smoke.

C．Smoking costs money as well as people's health.

D．The writer's parents both failed in quitting smoking.

(4)When she says “I'm really hooked” the writer means ________.

[　　]

A．I am so addictive that I hardly give up smoking

B．No one is able to make me smoke again unless I die

C．I believe my parents will understand me if I go on smoking

D．I feel sorry that I have no money to buy a present for my parents

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　　I think cigarette smoking is highly addictive (上瘾) and very expensive. Especially when you're 14 and get a $ 9 weekly allowance. I'm in ninth grade and started smoking in sixth.

　　The first cigarette I ever had was in fifth grade. My mom was walking our dogs and found an unopened pack that she brought home to use as an insecticide (杀虫剂) in the garden. A friend had told her that tobacco stops ants from attacking plants. Of course, when I found the pack, I took the cigarettes to my bedroom and being the little rebel I was, lit one with matches I stole from Dad．

　　I didn't get a buzz, because I didn't inhale (吸气) but just the fact I was actually smoking made me think I was cool. But my friend Donna didn't think so. She just looked at me like I was the stupidest thing on earth. Which I probably was, because still smoke to this day.

　　I've tried to quit, but it's very bard since most of my friends smoke too. When I started smoking regularly at the beginning of sixth grade, not that many students smoked; by the end of the year, a lot were smoking. It was pretty bad．Some kids grades get down, including mine, from skipping closes to get nicotine (尼古丁) into their systems. Now, in ninth grade, I'm still smoking.

　　About five months after I started cigarettes, I began smoking marijuana (大麻). There's no doubt in my mind that cigarettes are a gateway drug. Almost everyone I know started smoking before doing drugs. That has to tell you something.

　　Since I've smoked, I can smoke. I can hardly run around the block without getting out of breath. My mom quit smoking 18 years ago, and my dad stopped 14 years ago. My morn now has cancer, and my dad had bad three heart attacks. My grandma quit nine years ago, and she has emphysema (肺气肿). Not only that ---- my two grandfathers died from the results of smoking. After all this, you'd think I'd know better than continue.

　　Kids of teenagers who think smoking is cool or who want to try it: don't! It might make you feel calmer when you're really worked up, but 20 years from now you could find yourself really calmed down. You, too, could get emphysema, lung cancer, mouth cancer and much more.

　　I have told my parents that I will try to stop smoking as a present to them. But I hate the thought of never having another cigarette. You see-- no ifs, ands, or buts---- I'm really hooked．

(1)The writer's purpose in writing the article is ________.

[　　]

A．to warn to the adult not to smoke

B．to advise the youth not to smoke

C．to force parents to stop smoking

D．to ask the school to forbid smoking

(2)The writer began to smoke when she was only ________.

[　　]

(3)Which of the following statements is true in the article?

[　　]

A．No one is able to give up smoking when he is young.

B．Everyone who does drugs has to learn to smoke.

C．Smoking costs money as well as people's health.

D．The writer's parents both failed in quitting smoking.

(4)When she says “I'm really hooked” the writer means ________.

[　　]

A．I am so addictive that I hardly give up smoking

B．No one is able to make me smoke again unless I die

C．I believe my parents will understand me if I go on smoking

D．I feel sorry that I have no money to buy a present for my parents

We may look at the world around us, but somehow we manage not to see it until whatever we’ve become used to suddenly disappears.   36  , for example, the neatly-dressed woman I   37    see —or look at — on my way to work each morning.

For three years, no matter   38   the weather was like, she was always waiting at the bus stop around 8:00 am. On   39  days, she wore heavy clothes and a pair of woolen gloves. Summertime   40   out neat, belted cotton dresses and a hat pulled low over her sunglasses.   41  , she was an ordinary working woman. Of course, I   42   all this only after she was seen no more. It was then that I realized how   43   I counted on to see her each morning. You might say I   44   her.

“Did she have an accident? Something   45  ?” I thought to myself about her   46  . Now that she was gone, I felt I had   47   her. I began to realize that part of our   48   life probably includes such chance meetings with familiar   49  : the milkman you see at dawn, the woman who

  50   walks her dog along the street every morning, the twin brothers you see at the library. Such people are 51 markers in the landscape of our lives. They add weight to our   52   of place and belonging.

Think about it.  53  , while walking to work, we mark where we are by   54   a certain building, why should we not mark where we are when we pass a familiar, though   55  , person?

A. Use                B. Set             C. Follow           D. Take

A. would             B. used to           C. ought to         D. had to

A. that               B. how             C. what             D. whether

A. snowy             B. cool            C. sunny            D. cloudy

A. wore                   B. brought          C. gave           D. helped

A. Clearly            B. Luckily          C. Unfortunately    D. Besides

A. impressed           B. watched         C. remembered      D. knew

A. long               B. easy             C. difficult         D. much

A. loved              B. missed               C. disappointed      D. hated

A. special             B. unexpected     C. especial          D. worse

A. disappearance      B. appearance       C. misfortune      D. fortune

A. forgotten           B. lost              C. known         D. hurt

A. happy              B. enjoyable        C. frequent        D. daily

A. friends            B. strangers         C. tourists          D. guests

A. regularly            B. actually       C. hardly          D. probably

A. common          B. pleasant          C. important     D. faithful

A. choice            B. knowledge       C. decision         D. sense

A. Because            B. If             C. Although        D However

A. keeping            B. changing         C. passing       D. mentioning

A. unnamed           B. unforgettable    C. unbelievable     D. unreal