摘要：2．spend, cost, pay, charge与offer 这几个词都表示“花费 .但用法不一样. (1)cost是以“物.事 为主语.常用于sth. cost (sb.) some money结构. The cost cost her 20 yuan.这件外衣花了她20元. 注意:cost无被动语态. (2)pay用于付款给别人.付一个帐单或者付几笔款项等.它是及物动词.宾语可以是“人 或“钱 的名词或代词. Yesterday he paid the money he owed.他昨天还清了欠账. (3)charge指收取别人多少钱.主语为人或旅馆等. The hotel charged me ￡10 for a room for the night. 那家旅馆一间房一晚向我收费10英镑. (4)offer出价.开价,提供.出售.“人 作主语. We offered him the house for ￡1000.我们要价1000英镑卖给她那幢房子. 比较:We offered him ￡1000 for the house.我们出价1000英镑买他那幢房子.
Few tsws are so effective that you can see fesults just days after they take effect．But in the nine days since the federal cigarette tax more than doubled－to＄1.1 per pack－smokers have jammed telephone”puit lines”aeross the country seeking to kick the habit．
This is not a surprise to public health advocates．They’ve studied the offoct of state tax increases for years, finding that smokers, especially teong, are price sensitive, Nor is it a shock to the industry, which fiercdly fights every tax inortse．
The only wonder is thst so many states insist on closing their ears to the message．Tobacco taxes omprove public health, health, they raise money and most particularly, they deter people from taking up the habit as teens, which is when nearly all smokers are addicted．Yet the rate of taxation varies widely．
In Manhattan, for instance．Which has the highest tax in the nation, a pack of Marlboro Light Kings cos???at one drugstore Wednesdav．Charleston, S．C．where the bent-n-pack tax is the lowest in the nation．The price was＄4.78．
The influence is obvious．
In New York, hogh school smoking hit a new low in the latest surveys－13.8％, far below the mational average．By comparison, 26％ of high school students smlke in Kentucky, Other low-tax states have somolarly depressing teen-smoking records．
Hal Rogers, Representative from Kentucky, like those who are against high tobacco taxes, argues that the burden of the tax falls on low-income Americans”who choose to smoke．”
That’s true, But there is more reason in keeping future generations of low-income workers from getting hooked in the first place, As for today’s adults, if the new tax drves them to quit, tyey will have more to spend on their famliles, cut their risk of camcer and heart disease and feel better．
(1)
The text is mainly about ________．
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A．
the price of cigarettes
B．
tie rate of teen smoking
C．
the effect of tobacco tax increase
D．
the differenees in tobacco tax rate
(2)
What does the author think is a surprise?
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A．
Teen smokers are price sensitive．
B．
Some atates still keep the tobacco tax low．
C．
Tobacco taxes improve public health．
D．
Tobacco industry fiercely fights the tax rise．
(3)
The underlined word "deter"in Paragraph 3 most probably means ________．
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A．
discording
B．
remove
C．
benefit
D．
free
(4)
Rogers’attitude towards the low-income smokers might be that of ________．