Question

Tang Ling often smoked cigarettes(香烟) in his school’s washing room. He started smoking 1.the age of 14. One day he learnt that the NBA star Yao Ming, an ambassador(大使) to the Chinese Association on Tobacco Control (中国控烟协会), asked people not to smoke. Yao Ming was Tang’s favorite star,2. his words meant a lot to him. He decided to3.up smoking.

According to the Chinese Association on Tobacco Control, about 350 million Chinese smoke. Among4. , 50 million are teenagers. Sun Jiangping of Beijing University said, “ Teenagers can get cigarettes easily , especially when their parents smoke or shops sell cigarettes to them. It’s very important5.parents to help their children stop smoking.”A 15-year-old boy named Li Kun from Beijing said his 6.didn’t smoke. Because they thought smoking could make people feel badly ill, they only allowed him to play with friends without smoking. Living in such a good family helped Li say 7.to cigarettes. Some of his smoking classmates once told Li that smoking made boys look8., but Li disagreed. He said, “Smoking is unhealthy and it’s not cool at all. Please stop smoking now!”

Answer

1.at

2.so

3.give

4.them

5.for

6.parents

7.no

8.cool

【解析】

1.at the age of 14 的意思是在14岁的时候。

2.结合句意，姚明是他最喜欢的明星，所以姚明的话对他很有意义。

3.give up是放弃的意思。

4.结合句意，在他们之间，有五千万是青少年。

5.It做形式主语，真正的主语是动词不定式，结构为：It’s+形容词+for sb.+ to do sth.

6.联系上文，提到的是父母，所以此处是他的父母不吸烟。

7.结合句意，生活在这样好的家庭中使李对香烟说不。

8.根据后半句李的话“吸烟使人不健康，也不会使人变得很酷”，可知他同学告诉他吸烟使男孩子看起来很酷。