Question

Ali is from a Middle Eastern country. He now stays in the USA. He smokes a lot of cigarettes(香烟) every day. He has smoked for nine years. Ali says, “ I tried to quit (放弃) smoking in my hometown, but it was impossible. My parents smoke. My brothers smoke. All my friends smoke. At parties and at meetings, almost all the men smoke. Here in the United States, many people don’t smoke.  ____小题1:____ ”
Many smokers are like Ali: they want to stop smoking.  ____小题2:____. They know it can cause cancer（癌症） and heart disease. But it is difficult for them to give up smoking because cigarettes have a drug in them. The drug is nicotine(尼古丁). People who smoke a lot need nicotine.
____小题3:____ Because the nicotine makes him uncomfortable. But in a few days, the smoker’s body is used to the nicotine, and he feels fine. Later, the smoker needs nicotine to keep feeling fine. Without nicotine, he feels bad.
____小题4:____ Many people who quit will soon smoke again. At a party or at work they will decide to smoke “just one” cigarette. Then they will smoke another cigarette, and another. Soon they become smokers again. How can we quit smoking? ____小题5:____     

A．It is very difficult to quit smoking.

B．So it will be easier to change the smoking habit here.

C．Thus it makes smokers addicted to cigarettes.

D．The smokers know that smoking is bad for their health.

E. When a person first begins to smoke, he doesn’t feel good. 
F. Maybe there is only one easy way to quit smoking: never start. 
G. But it is said that medicine is needed to stop them from smoking.

Answer 1

小题1:B
小题2:D
小题3:E
小题4:A
小题5:F

试题分析：文章通过自己很难戒烟的痛苦经历，告诉读者戒烟很困难，最好就是从不开始吸烟。
小题1:考查句意和上下文，上文讲到以前家乡人人都吸烟，所以戒烟比较困难，现在美国不是人人吸烟，所以戒烟要容易的多，与B内容相符。
小题2:考查句意和上下文：根据They know it can cause cancer and heart disease可知，他们知道吸烟是有害健康的
小题3:考查句意和上下文：根据The nicotine makes him sick可知，第一次吸烟让人感到难受，
小题4:考查句意和上下文：根据Many people who quit will soon smoke again可知，很多人吸烟后又开始吸烟了，所以戒烟很难。
小题5:考查句意和上下文：根据前几句可知，一旦开始吸烟戒烟就很困难，所以最好的方法就是从不吸烟。