Why do people smoke? One reason is that people become addicted(成瘾) to cigarettes. The addictive substance(物质）in cigarettes is nicotine(尼古丁). When people smoke, the nicotine goes right into the blood stream and makes people feel comfortable. A smoker's body gets used to the nicotine, and if he stops smoking, he feels nervous. Many smokers try to stop smoking but because of the addiction to nicotine they feel so uncomfortable that they often find it too difficult to do so .
Another reason is that people simply enjoy smoking. Having a cigarette for many people means taking a break. For some people smoking becomes part of certain social rituals (礼仪), for example, sending the cigarette after dinner. Many people enjoy smoking because it gives them something to do with their hands. Reaching for a cigarette, lighting it and flicking (弹掉) the ashes are special comfort in a situation where they feel nervous.
Many people also like the taste of tar (焦油) in cigarettes. However, it is the tar that causes cancer. While governments and health experts have tried to get people to give up smoking completely, cigarette manufacturers (生产商) have tried to keep selling them by producing cigarettes with less tar. Many people in western countries have welcomed these cigarettes since they found it hard to stop smoking and wanted to reduce the danger to their health.
1.According to the passage, what gets people into the habit of smoking?
A. The cigarette. B. Nicotine. C. Tar. D. Blood.
2.What do the underlined words "to do so" mean?
A. They mean "to stop smoking".
B. They means "to make people feel comfortable".
C. They mean "to get used to the nicotine".
D. They means"to become addicted to cigarettes".
3.Why do people welcome low-tar cigarettes?
A. Because they taste better.
B. Because they are cheaper.
C. Because they are less harmful.
D. Because they are easy to be made.
4.Which of the following sentences is TRUE, according to the passage?
A. Smokers continue smoking because smoking is very interesting.
B. Tar in cigarettes causes cancer.
C. In order to look cool, many people enjoy smoking.
D. Many people in western countries welcome the cigarettes with more tar.
When he was a little child, Andrew had a serious bad habit of sucking（吮吸） his fingers all day long, especially when he had nothing interesting to do： when he was sleeping, when watching TV, when sitting on the sofa and so on. At the beginning, his parents didn’t think it was a bad habit.
Therefore, as time goes by, the boy couldn’t give up his habit. Now, in his twenties, Andrew seems to have developed the bad habit into another one： he always bites his nails(指甲). He cannot stop biting his nails all the time. There’re moments when he even doesn’t know that he is doing it. He realized it was a problem and this worried him a lot. Some of his friends told him about this bad habit, and he stops for a while. But then, if he isn’t busy doing something, he starts biting his nails again!
In fact, there’re a lot of bacteria(细菌) in your nails and they can cause some disease. Also, the nails will become ugly and hard to recover. The worst thing is that this bad habit will bring the mental illness（心理疾病）. If people cannot correct it in time, it can affect man’s mental health.
In short, bad habits are very worrying, especially when the person with the habit is in public and cannot stop himself or herself doing it. Still, there must be ways to give up these bad habits and these people should try their best to stop doing them.
1. When Andrew was a little boy, he had a bad habit of .
A. biting his fingers B. biting his nails
C. sucking his nails D. sucking his fingers
2.What’s the Chinese meaning of the underlined word “recover” in paragraph 3?
A. 覆盖 B. 修复 C. 发现 D. 报告
3.Which is TRUE according to the passage?
A. Andrew’s parents found it was a bad habit at the beginning.
B. Andrew had a kind of mental illness when he was a little child.
C. Andrew himself wasn’t worried about his habit in his twenties.
D. Some of Andrew’s friends tried to help him stop his bad habit of biting nails.
One midnight, a little girl was thirsty and got up to drink some water. She walked to the bedroom door and it. The little girl looked outside but walked and stood in the center of the room, because it was so in the hall and she was afraid. Her mother said： “Don’t be afraid, honey. Have courage (勇气), I believe you can do it yourself!”
“ is courage?” she asked, running to her mother’s bed. “Courage is the brave breath (呼吸),” her mother answered.
“Mom, do you have courage?” “Certainly.” her mother replied, The little girl held out her cold hands, saying： “Mom, blow some of your breath of courage to .”
After her mother blew into her little cold hands, the little girl clenched her fists (握拳)
, afraid that the “breath of courage” would away. Then with her fists clenched, she walked out of the bedroom towards the kitchen with to be afraid of. Her mother said to herself： “It will be nice someone can blow some courage to me. Then I can also hold it in my hands when I feel terrified.”
In a word, the thing that we are afraid of is nothing but the in our mind. The person who we should win is nobody but ourselves.
1.A. closed B. knocked C.opened D. kicked
2.A. in B. back C. out D. down
3.A. bright B. dark C. cold D. warm
4.A. What B. How C. Where D. Why
5.A. me B. you C. her D. it
6.A. politely B. happily C. luckily D. carefully
7.A. pull B. run C. move D. took
8.A. something B. anything C. everything D. nothing
9.A. because B. though C. if D. until
10.A. fear B. idea C. worry D. secret
--- How _______ is it from Xi'an to Dunhuang? --- It's less than 3 _______ flight.
A．long； hour's B．far； hour's
C．long； hours' D．far, hours'
He has _______ for two years.. Two years _______ a long time.
A. left home, are B. left home , is
C. been away from home , is D. been away from home , are
When you feel helpless and_______, just remember you are not_______ in the world because your friends are around you.
A. alone； alone B. lonely； lonely
C. alone； lonely D. lonely； alone
