5．D　 推理判断题。根据倒数第二段中“they couldn’t give up smoking because of the offering-and-accepting culture和People have accepted offering cigarettes as an effect way of making friends.”可推知答案。人们认为接受井盐2是一种社交礼仪，故而不吸烟的人也会接受别人井盐2。

　B

Working AT home is increasing in popularity as a means of escaping from nine-to-five office life. Why work under the constant watch of your boss when you can work in front of the TV in your carpet slippers? Armed with all the office essentials—telephone, computer, e-mail and fax, many workers believe they can work as effectively as their colleagues in the office. Being able to work wherever you like: from a busy city to a beautiful village, and make working from home an attractive choice, you can even work on a canal boat, like one Internet firm in the Midlands, US.

　　　 So what will become of the office of tomorrow? I believe it is likely that many could disappear into cyberspace. To minimize office overheads in inner-city areas, companies will apply a workforce made up of a network of home workers linked by an advanced communication and information system. A central processing computer would be controlled by the manager who sends out work schedules and oversees the activity of each employee.

As a successor to the Web Cam, a video screen would be created, as the need for more natural form of interaction than e-mail or telephone becomes greater. Capturing the mood and expressions of work colleagues, managers would have the ability to view several employees at once on their screen. Employees would be encouraged to feed any information that may be useful to fellow workers into the computer to make the company work more effectively. As the company's life blood, the computer would contain a record of all conversations and correspondence for future reference, and hold confidential information such as accounts in password protected areas. In the office of tomorrow, with daily life captured in detail, the case for firing employees could be more clear cut.

4．B　 推理判断题。综关全文可知，作者对吸烟是持否定态度的，所以500 billion yuan意味着巨大的经济浪费。

3．B 　推理判断题。根据第三段中的“Because they could seen as being rude, said more than half of the respondents. Fifteen percent…..is useful for socializing，以及第四段中的”they couldn’t give up smoking because of ……”可推知人们难以拒绝敬烟是因为他们认为offering-and-accepting是一种社交方式，拒绝就意味着不礼貌。

2．C　 主旨大意题。根据第三段的数字和比例说明春节期间有很多人吸烟。

1．D　 主旨大意题。文章通过对生活事例及调查研究的结果告诉读者，吸烟是有害于健康的，因此向别人敬烟是一种坏习惯。

5．We can infer from the passage that　　　　　　 .

　　　 A．people will be free to smoke during the Beijing Olympic Games.

　　　 B．only a few smokers still have the habit of offering cigarettes

　　　 C．offering cigarettes is the most effective way for socializing

　　　 D．some non-smokers will even accept the offered cigarettes

[解题导语]

春节期间到亲朋好友家做客，倒茶敬烟是一种被大多数人所接受，认可的待客礼仪。面对别人热情的敬烟，不同的人作出的反应又会如何？

[答案与简析]

4．The writer mentions the 500 billion yuan tobacco market because　　　　　　 .

　　　 A．the tobacco market is　 not developing smoothly

　　　 B．the writer thinks that smoking wasters a lot of money.

　　　 C．smoking is helpful to the tobacco market

　　　 D．the tobacco market attracts too many smokers

3．Which of the following may not be the reason that　 makes many people fail to refuse the offered cigarette?

　　　 A．It’s impolite to refuse.　　 B．Smoking is harmful to non-smokers.

　　　 C．They want to be friendly. D．It’s a kind of social habit.

2．The third paragraph mainly tells us　　　　　　 .

　　　 A．the fact that smokers are greatly increasing during the festival

　　　 B．the reason why refusing cigarettes is acceptable

　　　 C．the fact that　 many people have to smoke more cigarettes during the festival

　　　 D．it is rude to attend parties without smoking cigarettes

第一组

　A

　　　 Eat, drink and be merry. That’s what the Spring Festival is all about. But there are millions of people, too, who love to let happiness go up in smoke.

　　　 Offering cigarettes to guests is a traditional Chinese way of showing respect to them. A cup of tea and cigarettes are perhaps the most common way of welcoming a guest in China, especially during festive occasions such as the Lunar New Year.

　　　 No wonder, 40 percent of the people surveyed recently said they would smoke at least twice the usual number of cigarettes during the Spring Festival holiday because of all those gatherings　 and parties. Only 20 percent of the respondents said they would refuse a cigarette when offered one. Why can't the others do the same? Because they could be seen as being rude, said more than half of the respondents. Fifteen percent feared they could be taken as "someone who cannot get along well with others".

　　　 The Think- survey shows 61 percent Chinese think offering a cigarette is useful for socializing, and 52 percent have offered cigarettes to others. The study polled 3,800 people, 64 percent of them men.

　　　 One-third of those polled were smokers, out of which 57 percent said they couldn't give up smoking because of the offering-and-accepting culture. "People have accepted offering cigarettes as an effective way of making friends." research center director Wu Yiqun says.

　　　 China has more than 350 million smokers, catering to the tobacco market that is worth 500 billion yuan. "The survey shows we still have a lot of work to do," she says. "Since Beijing is trying to make the Olympic Games smoke-free, it is time to let people know that offering a cigarette is a bad habit and it should be given up immediately."

1．The passage is written with the purpose of　　　　 .

　　　 A．telling us a custom about the Chinese Spring Festival

　　　 B．introducing a way to make friends with Chinese

　　　 C．stopping smoking during the Beijing Olympics

　　　 D．telling us that offering cigarettes is a bad habit