C
China now has 350 million smokers, accounting for one-third of the world
total. Chinese smokers now become addicted(沉溺于) to nicotine at the age of 19, five years earlier
than the average starting age of 24 in
1997.
Of the 1.1 billion smokers all over the world,more thin 800 million
are in developing countries. And as the world’s largest developing country, China al-so has
the largest number of smokers.
Some frightening facts start to appear when we examine who China’s smokers are. Of the
350 million addicts, more than 100 million are under the age of 18, while more than 50 per cent of male
teachers and doctors are smokers.
Such a high rate of addicts among male teachers and doctors will
certainly have a bad impact on the young generation.
Teachers are usually expected to be role models for students who
tend to consider whatever they do is right and follow their example, It is very
likely that the number of teenage smokers win increase in the near future
unless measures are taken to forbid teachers from smoking in front of their
students or designate(指定)schools as no-smoking zones.
What is truly puzzling is why so many doctors smoke . They are
aware of the results of the habit, such as high blood pressure and lung cancer.
Their example only helps justify the addiction of so many others.
If educated people
set an example by stopping smoking at least in public places, it would be much
easier to drive home the notion that it is uncivilized to smoke in public
places.
In China,
there should also be a national law to ban smoking in public places.
These would make a massive contribution to cutting the number of
people in China who are smoking themselves into early grave(坟墓).
(China Daily 05/31/7006 page4)
49. The best title of
the text should be
.
A. Time to kick the habit
B. China bans smoking In public places
C. Smokers in China
D. Make people aware of smoking
50. In developing
countries, China
has the largest number of smokers, which covers
.
A. one-third of its total
B. one-eighth of its total
C. less than half its total
D. more than half its total
51. In the writer's opinion, who have influenced young
smokers, especially those under 18?
A. Parents.
B. Teachers only.
C. Teachers and doctors.
D. Advertisements
52. Which of the
following statements are NOT true according to the text?
A. In China, those
who get into the habit of smoking seems to be younger and younger.
B. More than half of
teachers and doctors are smokers in China.
C. The writer
suggests schools should be designated as no-smoking zones.
D. It is of great
benefit to forbid smoking in public places。