How many children will be stopped from smoking if we act now? A. one million. B. 1.5 million. C. 3 million. D. 3,000. Passage 30 Playing your heroes When she appeared on stage, singing a Japanese song, hundreds of excited teenagers crowded around shouting, "Curarpikt ! It's Curarpikt!" At the Beijing Comic and Animation Expo last week, that's exactly who Shi Jia was. The Senior 1 girl was cosplaying "Curarpikt", a character from the popular Japanese comic book "Hunter X Hunter" () by Yoshihiro Togashi . “I cosplay Curarpikt because I like him," said the pretty 15-year-old girl. "I'm moved by his sad story and I'm attracted by his courage and personality ." In the adventure comic story, Curarpikt, a handsome and kind-hearted boy, struggles to become a hunter so he can capture the people who killed his tribe . Shi has read all the comic books and is a big fan of the animated series of "Hunter X Hunter". Then last year she saw a real "Curarpikt" in a cosplay show. "I had watched cosplay shows before but only for fun," she explained. "It's really exciting to see young people wearing the make-up and costumes of characters that you've read about and are familiar with. "But that time I just fell in love with cosplaying, probably because I like Curarpikt so much. I thought I could play the character better, so I decided to have a go." Shi bought some cloth and asked a tailor to make a Curarpikt costume for her. She was delighted to find out there was a cosplay show in Beijing in October. "It's a great way to spend the national holiday. Posing on the stage for all the comic book fans, I knew I was doing something I had always wanted to do," she said. But she never talks about this hobby with her parents. "They think it will distract me from my studies. I don't want to upset them So it's my secret hobby," she said. "It's also why I don't dye my hair for cosplaying like all the others." What's cosplay? Cosplay is a Japanese term for "Costume-Play". When cosplaying, comic fans wear costumes and pretend to be their favourite comic characters. Shanghai was the first Chinese city to discover cosplay in 1990s. It soon spread to other big cities across the country. Nowadays, cosplaying is most popular among comic fans in their teens or early twenties. 查看更多

 

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The fighting against youth smoking

Since I took office I’ve done everything in my power to protect our children from harm. We’ve worked to make their streets and their schools safer, to give them something positive to do after school and before their parents get home. We’ve worked to teach our children that drugs are dangerous, illegal and wrong.

Today, I want to talk to you about the historic opportunity we now have to protect our nation’s children from an even more deadly threat: smoking. Smoking kills more people every day than AIDS, alcohol, car accidents, murders, suicides, drugs and fires combined. Nearly 90 percent of those smokers lit their first cigarette before they turned 18. Consider this: 3 000 children start to smoke every day illegally, and 1 000 of them will die sooner because of it. This is a national tragedy that every American should be honor-bound to help prevent. For more than five years we’ve worked to stop our children from smoking before they start, launching a nationwide campaign to educate them about the dangers of smoking, to reduce their access to tobacco products, and to severely restrict tobacco companies from advertising to young people. If we do these, we’ll cut teen smoking by almost half over the next five years. That means if we act now, we have it in our power to stop 3 million children from smoking and to save a million lives as a result.

1. What has the author done in his power?

A. To look after our children.

B. To clean the street.

C. To teach our children.

D. To protect our children from harm.

2. Compared with other disasters, what kills more people every day?

A. Smoking.                            B. Car accidents.

C. Drugs.                             D. Murders.

3. How many children start to smoke every day illegally?

A. 1 000.                                   B. 3 000.

C. 90.                                   D. 18.

4. For more than five years what have they done to stop their children from smoking?

A. To educate them about the dangers of smoking.

B. To reduce their access to tobacco products.

C. To restrict tobacco companies from advertising to young people.

D. Above of all.

5. How many children will be stopped from smoking if we act now?

A. one million.                                B. 1.5 million.

C. 3 million.                              D. 3 000.

 

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