Today, as in every other day of the year, more than 3,000 U.S. adolescents will smoke their first cigarette on their way to becoming regular smokers as adults. During their lifetime, it can be expected that of these 3,000 about 23 will be murdered, 30 will die in traffic accidents, and nearly 750 will be killed by a smoking-related disease. The number of deaths due to cigarette smoking outweighs all other factors, whether voluntary or involuntary, as a cause of death.
Since the late 1970s, when daily smoking among high school seniors reached 30 percent, smoking rates among youth have declined. While the decline is impressive, several important issues must be raised.
First, in the past several years, smoking rates among youth have declined very little. Second, in the late 1970s, smoking among male high school seniors beat that among female by nearly 10 percent . The statistic is reversing (完全相反的). Third, several recent studies have indicate high school dropouts have excessively high smoking rates, as much as 75 percent .
Finally, though significant declines in adolescent smoking have occurred in the past decade, no definite reasons for the decline exist. Within this context, the National Cancer Institute (NCI) began its current effort to determine the most effective measures to reduce smoking level among youth.
1.According to the author, the deaths among youth are mainly caused by _____.
A. traffic accidents B. smoking-related disease
C. murder D. all of these
2. Every day there are over _____ high school students who will become regular smoker.
A.75 B.23 C.30 D.3000
3.By "dropout" the author means ________
A. students who failed the examination
B. students who left school
C. students who lost their way
D. students who were driven out of school
4.The reason for declining adolescent smoking is that ________.
A. NCI has taken effective measures
B. smoking is prevented among high school seniors
C. there are many smokers who have died of cancer
D. none of these
5.What is implied by the author is that ________.
A. smoking rates among youth have declined very little
B. there are now more female than male smokers among high school seniors
C. high smoking rates are due to the increase in wealth
D. smoking at high school are from low socio-economic backgrounds
For most of us, success in school has very little to do with actual learning. The most important thing you have to master is how to play the grade games. you think out your own strategies for getting high marks, everything opens up to you. You may be to a well-known college or win scholarship, not to mention gaining the admiration of your teachers and parents.
But not everyone does well in tests. At times, it can almost turn into a funny game of hit and . Some students haven't mastered the of test taking, and some fear under pressure or need more time or another way to what they know. Being a school means learning things out of the school system. Then you have to work things to your . Lots of students are already doing it without it. Getting high grades also on knowing each teacher's character. For example, I once had to take , so one day in classes I talked to the teacher I had wanted to. I told him how I'd heard what a really good teacher he was, and how disappointed I was that I'd have to graduate having been in his class. I lied. It . (I had counted on the chemistry teacher being human, and he accepted.) I wasn't proud of myself for what I did. But I considered it of the grade game we're pushed into to aim at going to the best schools.
1.A. Before B. Unless C. Once D. While
2.A. permitted B. allowed C. agreed D. admitted
3.A. miss B. lost C. strike D. blow
4.A. game B. art C. interest D. result
5.A. speak B. tell C. talk D. express
6.A. master B. house C. failure D. success
7.A. points B. ideas C. advantage D. freedom
8.A. remembering B. realizing C. teaching D. understanding
9.A. bases B. depends C. calls D. takes
10.A. place B. arms C. classes D. chemistry
11.A. between B. among C. after D. before
12.A. after B. before C. without D. from
13.A. worked B. effected C. mattered D. did
14.A. one B. none C. part D. member
15.A. taking B. playing C. making D. enjoying
The Arabian Nights____ well known to English lovers.
A.is being B.are C.were D.is
Over 80 percent of the population _____ workers.
A.will be B. are C.is D.was
A professor and writer ____ present at the meeting last night.
A.had been B.were C.is D.was
The boy at the back is the only one of the students who _____ from Africa in our school.
A.was B.were C.is D.are
