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【题目】阅读理解

Eat，drink and be merry. That’s what Spring Festival is all about. But there are millions of people，too，who love to let happiness go up in smoke.

Offering cigarettes to guests is a traditional Chinese way of showing respect for them. A cup of tea and cigarettes are perhaps the most common way of welcoming a guest in China，especially during festive occasions.

No wonder,40 percent of the people surveyed recently said they would smoke at least twice the usual number of cigarettes during the Spring Festival because of all those gatherings and parties. Only 20 percent of the respondents said they would refuse a cigarette when offered one. Why can’t the others do the same？Because they could be seen as being rude，said more than half of the respondents. Fifteen percent feared they could be taken as “someone who cannot get along well with others”．

The Think tank Research Center for Health Development and sohu.com survey shows 61 percent Chinese think offering a cigarette is useful for socializing，and 52 percent have offered cigarettes to others. The study surveyed 3,800 people,64 percent of them men.

One third of those surveyed were smokers，out of which 57 percent said they couldn’t give up smoking because of the offering and accepting culture. “People have accepted offering cigarettes as an effective way of making friends，” research center director Wu Yiqun says.

China has more than 350 million smokers，catering to the tobacco market that is worth 500 billion yuan. “The survey shows we still have a lot of work to do，” Wu says. span>“Since Beijing is trying to make the Olympic Games smoke free，it is time to let people know that offering a cigarette is a bad habit and it should be given up immediately.”

【1】The passage is written with the purpose of________.

A．telling us a custom about the Chinese Spring Festival

B．introducing a way to make friends with Chinese

C．stopping smoking during the Beijing Olympic

D．telling us that offering cigarettes is a bad habit

【2】The third paragraph mainly tells us________.

A．the fact that smokers are greatly increasing during the festival

B．the reason why refusing cigarettes is acceptable

C．the fact that many people have to smoke more cigarettes during the festival

D．it is rude to attend parties without smoking cigarettes

【3】The writer mentions the 500 billion yuan tobacco market because________.

A．the tobacco market is not developing smoothly

B．the writer thinks that smoking wastes a lot of money

C．smoking is helpful to the tobacco market

D．the tobacco market attracts too many smokers

【4】We can infer from the passage that________.

A．people will be free to smoke during the Beijing Olympic Games

B．only a few smokers still have the habit of offering cigarettes

C．offering cigarettes is the most effective way for socializing

D．some nonsmokers will even accept the offered cigarettes

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】D

【2】C

【3】B

【4】D

【解析】中国人习惯几敬根烟给客人特别是春节期间，作者论述这种习惯的社会原因。

【1】 D 主旨大意题。虽然文中也谈到了春节习俗 (A)，交友之道(B)，北京正试图创造奥运无烟环境(C)，但都不是文章谈论的中心。全文议论的是敬烟陋习流行的社会原因。

【2】C 第三段所列举的一组组数字，表达受访者对春节期间吸烟行为加重的态度。他们中若干人虽然不支持吸烟，但又不得不随众。

【3】 B 中国有5000亿元的烟草市场，这正说明中国在烟雾腾腾中消耗了很多钱。

【4】D 在中国社会习俗中，敬烟和受烟，被认为是一种礼貌，是一种表达友谊的手段。所以，即使你不想吸烟，也不得不接受人家给你递过来的香烟。