Smoking in indoor public places including public working places, public transport vehicles and some other special outdoor working places has been banned(禁止)in China since January 2011.Let’s look at the following advantages of banning smoking.
First, banning smoking will not only help in saving smokers from health problems and diseases, but will also be good for passive(被动)smokers. When the smoker is smoking in a restaurant, the people around him are sure to breathe in the smoke and suffer from the diseases an active smoker gets. If smoking is banned, spread of these diseases can be controlled.
Next, banning smoking will put stress on smokers to give up. Since a smoker is prevented from smoking, he will learn how to live without smoking for long hours. When a smoker doesn’t smell or see anybody around him smoking, it might reduce his wish to smoke too. As a result, people have to give up smoking.
Smoking in public places influences non-smokers to start smoking, especially adolescents. When teens see people around them smoking, they will follow them easily. Thus the number of teen smokers will increase. Also asthma(哮喘)and other problems are often seen in children living around smokers. So if it is banned, these places will become safe for children and teenagers.
Looking from the economic point of view, smoking should be banned to increase work productivity(生产率).Employees(雇员)who smoke usually take breaks to smoke while working. So the number of hours they put in their work is smaller.
If you see from the environment point of view, smoking should be banned. Smoking causes air pollution. If it is banned, it will help keep the environment from getting worse.
1. ________doesn’t belong to a non-smoking place.
A.A field B.A hospital
C.A library D.A restaurant
2.The second paragraph mainly wants to tell us ______.
A. banning smoking is good for restaurants
B. banning smoking is good for non-smokers
C. banning smoking is good for spread of diseases
D. banning smoking is good for active smokers and passive smokers
3. How many advantages of banning smoking are mentioned in this passage?
A. Two. B. Four. C. Five. D. Six.
4.According to the text, the underlined word “adolescents” means ______.
A. men B. women
C. adults D. teenagers
5. Which of the following statements in NOT true?
A. If smoking is banned, work productivity will increase.
B. If smoking is banned, the number of teen smokers will be larger.
C. If smoking is banned, it will make the environment become better.
D. If smoking is banned, smokers will learn how to live without smoking.
阅读理解
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Welcome to this short tour of London. In this square we are standing in the middle of London. Opposite 对面) is the National Gallery, a museum with lots of famous paintings. Go along the red street to Buckingham Palace. The queen (后) lives here.
Turn left and go to the Houses of Parliament and Big Ben. Opposite you can see the London Eye. It takes you 135 meters above the River Thames. You can see most of London on a clear day.
When you are tired, the best way to see London is by boat. You can get the boat near Big Ben. As you go along the river, the London Eye is on your right, near the Railway Bridge.
Get off the boat at Tower Bridge. Then you can see the Tower of London next to the bridge. The Tower of London is the city’s oldest palace. It is nine hundred years old.
Take the boat back along the river. Get off the boat and go past the station and walk along the street. Opposite is the old fruit and vegetable market. They don’t sell fruit and vegetables now. There are stores and restaurants, and lots of street musicians. Turn left into King’s Street, and go past the church. You’re now back where you started, at the square. Now you finish your tour.
1.If you go to visit the National Gallery, what will you find?
A. lots of lovely animals B. lots of valuable plants
C. lots of famous paintings D. lots of interesting books
2. Where can you get the boat?
A. Near Buckingham Palace. B. Near Big Ben.
C. Near Tower Bridge. D. Near King’s Street.
3.______ is London’s oldest palace.
A. The Tower of London B. The National Gallery
C. Buckingham Palace D. The Houses of Parliament
4. ______ is the London Eye.
5. You will not go past ______ on your way back.
A. the station B. the square
C. the park D. the church
完形填空
Amy was a little girl. She lived near a fruit shop in the village. The shop was ________ by Mr. Smith.
One day Mr. Smith said to Amy, “Would you like to earn (赚) some money? ”
“Oh, yes,” replied she, “for I want some new shoes, and dad has no ________ to buy them with.”
“Well, Amy,” said Mr. Smith, “there are some fine ________ in Mr. Green’s garden, and he said that anybody was welcome to them. I will ________you thirteen cents (美分) a kilogram for all you will pick for me.”
Amy was so________ that she decided to go to pick the grapes as soon as possible. She ran home to get a ________ at once.
Then she thought she would like to know how much money she would get ________she picked five kilograms. ________ the help of her pencil, she found out that she would get sixty-five cents.
“But supposing I should pick twelve kilograms,” thought she, “________should I earn then?” “Dear me,” she said, after figuring (计算) a while, “I should earn one dollar and ________ cents.”
Amy then found out what Mr. Smith would pay her for fifty, a hundred, and two hundred kilograms. It took ________ some time to do this, and then it was so near lunch time that she had to ________ at home until afternoon.
As soon as lunch was ________ , she took her basket and ________ to the garden. Some boys had been there before lunch, and all the fine grapes were picked.
As she went home, she ________ what her teacher had often told her—“Do your task at once; then think about it,” for “one doer is worth a hundred dreamers.”
1.A. kept B. found C. made D. sold
2.A. idea B. use C. money D. place
3.A. apples B. bananas C. grapes D. pears
4.A. cost B. pay C. spend D. take
5.A. sad B. worried C. interesting D. happy
6.A. box B. basket C. bag D. bottle
7.A. until B. although C. if D. whether
8.A. With B. Under C. In D. On
9.A. how long B. how often C. how many D. how much
10.A. fifty-six B. sixty-five C. thirteen D. thirty
11.A. him B. her C. me D. us
12.A. pick B. cry C. make D. stay
13.A. over B. away C. up D. off
14.A. returned B. hurried C. sent D. belonged
15.A. talked about B. talked with C. thought of D. thought over
— I hope that I will have millions of dollars and I can buy my private (私人的) plane.
— ________.
A. You are welcome B. That’s very kind of you
C. In your dreams D. Thank you all the same
—Why do you call him Mr. Knowledgeable?
—Because he knows almost everything we want to know.
A. which B. what C. that D. who
It that she was the real princess. I thought she was a farmer.
A. turned out B. turned down
C. turned up D. turned on
