Though smoking is known to be not good to one's health, many countries see ________ change in the number of smokers.

1. A.
   few
2. B.
   any
3. C.
   little
4. D.
   much

Everyone ____39____ that smoking is not good for health, but still more and more people begin to smoke. Every year about millions of smokers die from   __40__  . Most of the smokers are men. But more and more   __41__   also begin to smoke. The number of smokers is becoming larger and larger each year. Every year the government has to spend lots of money   __42____   the people with illness caused by smoking,   __43__   it also has to pay lots of money for the great loss(损失) in the  ___44__  caused by smoking. So the government wants people to give up(放弃) smoking, ____45_____ the tobacco (烟叶) companies want more young people, even students in middle schools, to  ___46__   because they want to make more money _____47_____ tobacco sales.

      Why do many smokers find _____48_____ hard to give up smoking? The ___ 49__   with tobacco is that it has a drug called nicotine inside. The drug gets them into the habit(习惯) of smoking and makes them find it  __ 50__   to stop.

    39. A. knows        B. sees            C. wants            D. likes

40. A. drinking       B. eating                  C. smoking               D. laughing

41. A. men         B. women       C. children               D. people

42. A. finding               B. following             C. looking for        D. looking after

43. A. but                     B. so                   C. and                      D. or

44. A. fire              B. water           C. building          D. sickness

45. A. but           B. and            C. so               D. or

46. A. stop smoking                    B. start smoking                  

C. go on smoking                      D. make more tobacco

47. A. to             B. from           C. of               D. in

48. A. this            B. that            C. /                D. it

49. A. question       B. result                     C. answer           D. problem

50. A. difficult               B. easy                  C. fun             D. interesting

Though smoking is known to be not good to one's health, many countries see ________ change in the number of smokers.

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