5.  How many children will be stopped from smoking if we act now?

A.   one million.

B.    1.5 million.

C.    3 million.

D.   3,000.

Passage 30   Playing your heroes

When she appeared on stage, singing a Japanese song, hundreds of excited teenagers crowded around shouting, "Curarpikt (酷拉皮卡)! It's Curarpikt!"    At the Beijing Comic and Animation Expo last week, that's exactly who Shi Jia was. The Senior 1 girl was cosplaying (角色扮演) "Curarpikt", a character from the popular Japanese comic book "Hunter X Hunter" (《猎人》) by Yoshihiro Togashi (富坚义博).    “I cosplay Curarpikt because I like him," said the pretty 15-year-old girl. "I'm moved by his sad story and I'm attracted by his courage and personality (个性)."    In the adventure comic story, Curarpikt, a handsome and kind-hearted boy, struggles to become a hunter so he can capture (俘获) the people who killed his tribe (部落).    Shi has read all the comic books and is a big fan of the animated series (动画片) of "Hunter X Hunter". Then last year she saw a real "Curarpikt" in a cosplay show.    "I had watched cosplay shows before but only for fun," she explained. "It's really exciting to see young people wearing the make-up and costumes (装束) of characters that you've read about and are familiar with.    "But that time I just fell in love with cosplaying, probably because I like Curarpikt so much. I thought I could play the character better, so I decided to have a go."    Shi bought some cloth and asked a tailor to make a Curarpikt costume for her. She was delighted to find out there was a cosplay show in Beijing in October.    "It's a great way to spend the national holiday. Posing on the stage for all the comic book fans, I knew I was doing something I had always wanted to do," she said.

But she never talks about this hobby with her parents. "They think it will distract me from my studies. I don't want to upset them So it's my secret hobby," she said. "It's also why I don't dye my hair for cosplaying like all the others."

What's cosplay?

Cosplay is a Japanese term for "Costume-Play". When cosplaying, comic fans wear costumes and pretend to be their favourite comic characters. Shanghai was the first Chinese city to discover cosplay in 1990s. It soon spread to other big cities across the country. Nowadays, cosplaying is most popular among comic fans in their teens or early twenties.

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