People have smoked cigarettes for a long time now. The tobacco which is used to make cigarettes was first grown in what is now part of the United States. Christopher Columbus, who discovered America, saw the Indians smoking. Soon the dried leaves were transported to Europe . In the late 1800s, the Turks made cigarettes popular.
Cigarette smoke contains at least two harmful substances, tar and nicotine. Tar, which forms as the tobacco burns, damages the lungs and therefore affects breathing. Nicotine, which is found in the leaves, causes the heart to beat faster and increases the breathing rate. Nicotine in large can kill a person by stopping a person’s breathing muscles. Smokers usually take in small amounts that the body can quickly break down.
Nicotine can make new smokers feel dizzy(头晕) or sick to their stomachs. The heart rate for young smokers increases 2 to 3 beats per minute. Nicotine also lowers skin temperature and reduces blood flow in the legs and feet. It plays an important role in increasing smokers’ risk of heart disease and stroke.
Smoking cigarettes is dangerous. Cigarette smoking was the cause of lung cancer and several other deadly diseases.
1..
Tobacco first appeared in_________.
A. Asia B. Africa
C. Europe D. America
2..
What is the main purpose of the first paragraph?
A. To tell us the bad effects caused by smoking cigarettes
B. To introduce the history of smoking
C. To let us know what the cigarettes are made from
D. To tell the readers that Columbus found the Indians smoking
3..
._________doesn’t make one’s heart beat as usual.
A. Tar B. Nicotine
C. Lung disease D. Leave
4..
The following effects are caused by Nicotine EXCEPT that________.
A. It can make new smokers feel dizzy or sick to their stomachs
B. It lowers skin temperature
C. It causes the heart to beat less fast
D. Nicotine will probably kill a person if a smoker takes in too much of it.
5..
What’s the main idea of this passage?
A. Where did cigarettes come from?
B. The effect of smoking on your body.
C. How to smoke is healthy?
D. Who is the first smoker?
For 52 years my father got up every morning at 5:30 a.m., except Sunday, and went to work. I__41__saw my father home from work ill. He had no hobbies, __42__taking care of his family.
For 22 years, __43__I left home for college, my father__44__me every Sunday at 9:00 a.m.. He was always interested in my__45__,or how my family was doing, and I never once heard him__46__about his lot (生活状况) in life. The calls even came when he and my mother were in other states.
Nine years ago when I__47__my first house, my father, 67 years old, spent three days__48__my house. He would not__49__me to pay someone to have it done. All he __50__was a cup of tea, a paint brush and to talk to him. But I was too__51__.I had a law practice to run, and I could not take__52__to hold the brush, or talk to my father.__ 53__things happened several times later.
The morning on Sunday. January 16, 1996, my father telephoned me__54__,this time from my sister’s home in Florida. But the__55__came again at 4:40 p.m. that day. My father was in the__56__in Florida with an aneurysm (动脉瘤)．I got on an airplane__57__, and on the way, I__58__of all the times I had not taken the time to talk to my father. I determined that when I arrived, I would__59__for the lost time, and have a nice long talk with him.
I arrived in Florida at 11:30 p.m., my father had__ 60__at 9:12 p.m.. This time it was he who did not have time to talk, or to wait for me.
1..
．A. ever B．never C．always D．often
2..
．A. except B．rather than C．more than D．or rather
3..
A. because B．before C．although D．since
4..
．A. visited B．praised C．telephoned D．met
5..
．A. work B．life C．study D．plan
6..
．A. worry B．care C．talk D．look
7..
．A. built B．found C．bought D．sold
8..
．A. repairing B．painting C．cleaning D．decorating
9..
．A. teach B．order C．force D．allow
10..
A. asked B．kept C．ordered D．served
11..
．A. smart B．upset C．busy D．tired
12..
．A. practice B．task C．tea D．time
13..
．A. Different B．Similar C．Funny D．Strange
14..
．A. as usual B．in pain C．casually D．finally
15..
A. call B．moment C．situation D．scene
16..
．A. church B．school C．home D．hospital
17..
．A. immediately B．happily C．gradually D．carefully
18..
．A. heard B．spoke C．thought D．demanded
19..
．A .take up B．make up C．turn up D．put up
20..
．A. started out B．given in C．passed away D．come back
The visiting minister expressed his satisfaction with the talks, _________ that he
had enjoyed his stay here.
A. having added B. to add C. adding D. added
Though the girl to learn Japanese, she couldn’t catch up with her classmates.
A. made effort B. made an effort
C. took every effort D. gave her efforts
The accident that resulted ________the death of two passengers resulted ________careless driving.
A．in；on B．in；from
C．on；in D．from；in
—Can you hit that bird with your gun, Tom?
—No！It is out of the ________of my gun.
A．length B．aim C．distance D．range
