Smoking in your own home in Thailand may now be considered a crime, if the smoke is considered harmful to other people in the house.
The new law, Family Protection and Development Promotion Act, aiming at controlling smoking at home which might be hazardous for others' health living under the same roof，was initiated by the Ministry of Social Development and Human Security and was announced in the Royal Gazette on May 22, 2019. It came into force on August 20.
According to the center for research and knowledge management for tobacco control, at the Faculty of Medical Science of Mahidol University, there are about 4.9 million households where one or more family members smoke. An average of 10.3 million people have unwittingly（不知不觉地） become passive smokers because they’ve been breathing smoke at home. Scientific studies show that passive smokers are at greater risk of being affected by cancer. Of 75 child patients from houses where smoking is practiced, 76% of them were found to have nicotine traces in their urine（尿液）, with 43% of them having nicotine content exceeding（超过） permissible levels.
Smoking at home also “may lead to physical or emotional violence” because of aggressiveness when there is a lack of smoking, and might as well ruin relationships between smokers and non-smoker family members.
According to the new law, anyone who thinks they are affected by domestic smoking can report to government departments concerned so that officials will be sent to investigate and take legal action against the smokers. Once convicted(证明有罪的), the court may order a person to receive treatment to quit smoking in an attempt to protect the person's family.
1.What does the underlined word “hazardous” in Paragraph 2 probably mean?
A.risky B.beneficial
C.influential D.dangerous
2.How does the author organize Paragraph 3 ?
A.by listing figures B.by giving examples
C.by comparing the differences D.by explaining the reasons
3.We can learn from the passage that__________
A.smoking anywhere in Thailand is considered a crime.
B.passive smokers are more likely to have lung cancer .
C.76% of the children in Thailand have nicotine traces in their urine.
D.smoking at home may hurt other family members both physically and emotionally.
4.According to the new law, ___________
A.anybody must report to the officials once they are affected.
B.officials will take legal action against all the people concerned .
C.smoking in one’s own home in Thailand may now be considered a crime.
D.the court may order a smoker to stop smoking to protect all nonsmokers .
My People, My Country, an epic seven-part anthology(选集) to mark the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, records the nation's greatest technological and cultural achievements.
Each part focuses not on the heroes of the hour, but on everyday people and how their lives connect personally with China's advancement.
The opening part by Guan Hu, The Eve, sees an engineer, played by Huang Bo, race against time to perfect an automatic flag-raising mechanism before the ceremony in 1949 to mark the founding of the People's Republic of China.
The second story, directed by Zhang Yibai, is about a scientist working on China's first atomic bomb who had to bid farewell forever to his lover in the 1960s.
In Xu Zheng's lighthearted offering, The Champion, a young boy must secure a TV aerial(天线) to the roof of his home so his neighbours can watch the Chinese women's volleyball team play in the 1984 Olympic final.
Going Home is about Hong Kong's return to China in 1997. It focuses on a Chinese soldier tasked with hoisting the national flag on the stroke of midnight.
Hello, Beijing, is about a taxi driver who gets a ticket of the opening ceremony of 2008 Beijing Olympics. Though he planned to give it as a birthday gift to his son, who had been away from him for a long time, the good-hearted man gives the ticket to another child suffering from Wenchuan Earthquake.
One for All, directed by Wen Muye, focuses on a top female fighter jet pilot who helps her fellow pilots complete a smooth aerial performance, part of the military parade to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the victory in the Chinese People's War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression in 2015.
1.What does the underlined word “hoisting” in Paragraph 6 probably mean?
A.mending B.buying
C.raising D.making
2.What do we know according to the passage?
A.The engineer finally got the mechanism working successfully.
B.The young boy watched the national volleyball team play.
C.The taxi driver didn’t give the ticket to his son because of lack of love.
D.The male fighter jet pilot finished the performance with team members.
3.Where does the passage probably come from?
A.a book review B.a film review
C.an ad D.a magazine
假定你是李华。最近 China Daily 就“如何看待中国传统文化”面向社会征稿。请你用英语给编辑写一封信，谈谈你自己的想法。要点如下:
1) 表明自己的立场(传统文化应该得到保护和传承)；
2) 给出你的理由；
3) 呼吁社会共同参与。 参考词汇:传承 inherit
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假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改英语作文，请你修改你同桌的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每行中最多两处错误。错误涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加：在此处加一个漏字符号(∧)，并在其下面写出增加的词；
删除：把多余的词用斜线(＼)划掉；
修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在其下面写出修改后的词。
注意：1.每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2.只允许修改 10 处，多者(从十一处起)不计分。
I’m glad to receive your letter asking for my advice on what to learn Chinese well. Here are few suggestions. First, it is important to taking a Chinese course. Then you’ll be able to learn from the teacher and practice with you fellow students. Then, it also help to watch TV and read books, newspapers and magazines in Chinese whenever possibly. Besides, it should be a good idea to learn and sing China songs. By doing so you’ll learn or remember Chinese words more easily. You can also make more Chinese friend. They will tell you a lot about China and help you learn Chinese. Try and write to me in Chinese at next time.
单词填空
1.The editor __________(评论) that article was well written.
2.Through these websites, I can read some __________(经典的) English passages, poems and novels.
3.The two sides haven’t reached a __________(妥协；和解) and they are in need of more time to think about the situation.
4.We must try every means to __________(使成熟) the late crops more rapidly.
5.It is urgent that we should carry out the __________ (供选择的) plan.
6.There was a time when I was so proud that I o__________ my peers.
7.Einstein is a b__________ man but he was ahead of his time and his theories were rejected by people at that time.
8.The bell indicating the end of the period rang, i__________ our heated discussion.
9.He was a__________ for spreading rumors on the Internet.
10.With three goals in the first period they had a promising victory, but s__________ they lost.
阅读下面短文，在空白处填入 1 个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。
Why do many of us find 1. difficult or impossible to fall asleep in a bed other than our own? Is it because the bed is 2.(comfort)? According to a new study published in Current Biology, a significant reason is 3. the scientists call “first night effect”. They believe that one side of the brain acts as a “night watch” to warn us about potential dangers. It forces us 4.(stay) awake on the first night in a new environment.
For the study, 35 young volunteers 5.(ask) to sleep in a sleep lab for several days. Meanwhile, researchers watched their brain activities.
According to the researchers, on their first night, the left brains were 6.(active) than the right brains and people had a hard time sleeping. However, left-brain activity decreased as days went by, 7.(fall) even to the point of complete calm. In this process, the participants got an increasingly better sleep experience.
The 8.(finding) suggest that the different rhythms of the sides of the brain affect our sleep. When the two sides work 9.(different), the balance between them is broken. Thus, the brain can’t relax and is sensitive to anything strange in the surroundings, just 10. it is in the daytime.
