Question

A new weapon is on the way in the fight against smoking in Europe. Soon when smokers buy cigarettes, they might see a shocking photo of a blackened lung or a cancer patient staring back at them from the packet.

       Some boys may think of smoking as cool and sexy. Their friends won’t agree when they see their packets of cigarettes lying on the table.

The European Union announced on October 22, that it had chosen 42 photos that showed the damage cigarettes could do to the body. It called on member nations to put these pictures on packets to discourage young smokers.

To catch the attention of teenagers, the special packets warn of long-term medical dangers, like cancer. Short-term effects, like bad skin, are also on the list.

“The true fact of smoking is disease, death and horror. That is the message we should send to the young,” said David Byrne, an EU health official. “Hopefully these pictures will shock students out of their love for cigarettes.”

The EU head office hoped the pictures would work better than current written warnings on packs of cigarettes. The warning included “smoking kills” and “smoking can lead to a slow and painful death.”

So far, Ireland and Belgium have shown interest in the photos. Canada has used similar pictures and warnings on cigarette packs since 2000. The country has recently seen a fall in the number of smokers.

According to studies, smoking is the single biggest cause of avoidable death in EU. Every year more than 650,000 smokers die, more than one person a minute.

What would be the best title for the text?

       A. New Ways to Stop Smoking.                         B. Pictures to Shock Smokers.

       C. New Packers of Cigarettes.                            D. Dangers of Smoking.

Which of the following is NOT the true face of smoking?      

       A. Disease.                   B. Death.                      C. Horror.                    D. Happinese.

We can learn from the test that _______.

       A. The EU countries have put the new warning method into practice

       B. only a small number of the EU countries have used the new warning method

       C. the new warning method has worked in some EU countries

       D. countries in the EU still use the old warning method

Which country is most successful in stopping smoking?

       A. Ireland.                    B. Belgium.                  C. Canada.                    D. EU

The underlined sentence in the last paragraph suggests that ________.

       A. It’s hard to stop smoking in EU

       B. deaths caused by smoking could have been avoided

       C. smoking is the biggest cause of deaths in EU

       D. EU has the largest number of deaths caused by smoking

      

Answer 1

【小題1】B

【小題2】D

【小題3】D

【小題4】C

【小題5】B

解析:

煙草是造成疾病和早亡的“罪魁禍首”，而由此引起的疾病和早亡本來是可以避免的。但吸煙者和一些準備開始吸煙的人對煙草可能帶來的危害并不十分了解，他們中不少人只籠統知道“吸煙有害健康”。

【小題1】 主旨大意題。本文屬新聞報道類，第一段交代了文章的中心，歐盟號召成員國采取一些宣傳吸煙有害健康的照片，以此來警示吸煙者。

【小題2】 細節理解題。根據文章第五段第一句“The true fact of smoking is disease, death and horror.可知應選D。

【小題3】推理判斷題。分析文章的信息，我們可以得出結論，文章介紹的一種新措施僅僅還是一個設想，還沒有付諸實施，因此斷定歐盟國家仍舊沿用舊的警示方式。

【小題4】 細節理解題。文章倒數第二段說明加拿大因為采取了類似的警示措施，吸煙人數有所下降。Canada has used similar pictures and warnings on cigarette packs since 2000. The country has recently seen a fall in the number of smokers.

【小題5】 語意理解題。本句的意思是：在歐盟，吸煙是唯一能夠避免的造成死亡的最重要的原因。即：吸煙造成的死亡本來可以避免。