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2003年职称英语等级考试试题、答案及题解综合类(C级)10
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第三篇               Up in Smoke
I began to smoke when I was in high school. In fact, I remember the evening I was at a girlfriend’s house, and we were watching a movie—a terribly romantic movie. He (the hero of the movie) was in love, she (his lady) was beautiful, and they were both smoking. My friend had only two cigarettes from a pack in her mother’s purse, and she gave one to me. It was my first time.
My parents didn’t care much. They both smoked, and my older brother did too. My mother told me that smokers don’t grow tall, but I was already5’6”(taller than most of the boys in my class), so I was happy to hear that “fact”. In school, the teachers talked against smoking, but the cigarette advertisements were so exciting. The men in the ads were so good-looking and so successful, and the women were-well, they were beautiful and sophisticated(老于世故的).
I read a book called how to stop smoking. The writer said that smoking wastes time, and that cigarettes cost a lot of money. “So what?” I thought, the book didn’t say that smoking can take away years of your life. But ten years later, everyone began to hear about the negative effects of cigarette smoke: lung disease, cancer, and heart problems. After that, there was a health warning on every pack of cigarettes. I didn’t pay much attention to the reports and warnings. I felt healthy, and I thought I was taking good care of myself.
Then two events changed my mind. First, I started to cough. I thought it was just a cold, but it didn’t get better. Second, my brother got lung cancer. He got sicker and sicker. My brother and I used to smoke cigarettes together over twenty years age, and we smoked our last cigarettes together the day before he died. I sat with him in his hospital room, and I decided to quit. “NO more cigarettes, ever,” I said to myself.
However, it was very hard to stop, Nicotine(尼古丁)is a drug; as a result, cigarettes cause a powerful addiction. I tried several times to quit on my own—without success. I made excuses. I told myself: Smoking helps me ke, ep my figure—i.e. I don’t gain weight when I smoke. Smoking not only relaxes me but it also helps me think clearly. I’m a free, liberated woman. I can smoke when I want to.
Finally, I ran out of excuses—I might say my excuses went up in smoke. I joined the “Stop Smoking” program at the local hospital, which also ended up in failure.
41 How the writer started smoking shows the powerful influence of
A educational institutions
B one’s social status
C the mass media
D public opinions
42 The “fact” in Paragraph 2 refers to
A her admiration for the men in the ads
B her mother’s warning that smokers don’t grow tall
C her height of 5’6”
D the teachers’ negative attitude towards smoking
43 The book called How to Stop Smoking
A cost the writer a lot of time to read
B was not taken seriously by the writer
C warned the reader of the risk of lung cancer.
D left the writer in confusion
44 The writer decided to quit smoking partly because
A she could not afford any more cigarettes.
B her doctor had advised her to do so
C her brother had given up smoking.
D she had started to cough
45 The writer found it hard to quit smoking because
A she had been addicted to nicotine.
B she had been putting on weight.
C she could not think clearly.
D she was an independent woman.

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