Question

       Eat, drink and be merry. That’s what the 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 to them. A cup of tea and cigarettes are perhaps the most common way of welcoming a guest in China, especially during festive occasions such as the Lunar New Year.

       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 holiday 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 polled 3,800 people, 64 percent of them men.

       One-third of those polled 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," she says. "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 Olympics

       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．Which of the following may not be the reason that  makes many people fail to refuse the offered cigarette?

       A．It’s impolite to refuse.     B．Smoking is harmful to non-smokers.

       C．They want to be friendly. D．It’s a kind of social habit.

4．The writer mentions the 500 billion yuan tobacco market because            .

       A．the tobacco market is  not developing smoothly

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

       C．smoking is helpful to the tobacco market

       D．the tobacco market attracts too many smokers

5．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 non-smokers will even accept the offered cigarettes

Answer 1

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解析:

春節(jié)期間到親朋好友家做客，倒茶敬煙是一種被大多數(shù)人所接受，認(rèn)可的待客禮儀。面對別人熱情的敬煙，不同的人作出的反應(yīng)又會如何？

1．D  主旨大意題。文章通過對生活事例及調(diào)查研究的結(jié)果告訴讀者，吸煙是有害于健康的，因此向別人敬煙是一種壞習(xí)慣。

2．C  主旨大意題。根據(jù)第三段的數(shù)字和比例說明春節(jié)期間有很多人吸煙。

3．B  推理判斷題。根據(jù)第三段中的“Because they could seen as being rude, said more than half of the respondents. Fifteen percent…..is useful for socializing，以及第四段中的”they couldn’t give up smoking because of ……”可推知人們難以拒絕敬煙是因?yàn)樗麄冋J(rèn)為offering-and-accepting是一種社交方式，拒絕就意味著不禮貌。

4．B  推理判斷題。綜關(guān)全文可知，作者對吸煙是持否定態(tài)度的，所以500 billion yuan意味著巨大的經(jīng)濟(jì)浪費(fèi)。

5．D  推理判斷題。根據(jù)倒數(shù)第二段中“they couldn’t give up smoking because of the offering-and-accepting culture和People have accepted offering cigarettes as an effect way of making friends.”可推知答案。人們認(rèn)為接受井鹽２是一種社交禮儀，故而不吸煙的人也會接受別人井鹽２。