Question

After reading an article entitled 'Cigarette Smoking and Your Health' , I ____1.______（light） a cigarette to calm my nerves. I smoked with concentration ____2.______pleasure as I was sure that this would be my last _____3._____. For _____4.___whole week I did not smoke at all and during this time, my wife suffered _____5._____(terrible). I had all the usual symptoms of someone giving up smoking: a bad temper and an enormous appetite. My friends kept on offering _____6._____ cigarettes and cigars. They made no effort ____7._____ hide their amusement whenever I produced a packet of sweets from my pocket. After seven days of this I went to a party. Everybody around me was smoking and I felt extremely _____8.____(comfortable). When my old friend Brian urged me to accept a cigarette, it was more than I could bear. I took one guiltily, lit it and smoked with satisfaction. My wife was ______9.____(delight) that things had returned to normal once more. Anyway, as Brian pointed out, ____10.__ is the easiest thing in the world to give up smoking. He himself has done it lots of times!

Answer

1.lit/lighted

2.and

3.cigarette

4.a

5.terribly

6.me

7.to

8.uncomfortable

9.delighted

10.it

【解析】

试题分析：了解到吸烟对健康的危害，作者决定戒烟。戒烟期间，作者脾气暴躁，食欲增强，给妻子带来了不少的麻烦。朋友们也不停的引诱“我”继续吸烟，最终作者未能抗拒诱惑，戒烟失败。

1.lit/lighted；考查动词时态。从全文可知，本文主要时态为过去时态，即发生在过去，故填light的过去式lit或lighted。

2.and；考察关联词。从句意可知，concentration和pleasure是并列关系，即“十分专注与愉悦地”，填and。

3.cigarette；考查名词。从上句可知，作者决定戒烟，即现在抽的是最后一支烟，填cigarette。

4.a；考察定冠词。从whole week可知此处形容的是单数，故填a。

5.terribly；考察副词。此处terrible形容suffered，只有副词才能形容动词，故转换为terribly。

6.me；考察动词词组搭配。Offer sb sth“提供某人某物”，此处句意为“朋友们继续给我香烟和雪茄”，故填me。

7.to；考察动词词组搭配。Make no effort t do sth“不遗余力做某事”，即“只要我从口袋里拿出糖，他们就会不遗余力地在我面前表现出抽烟的快乐”，故填to。

8.uncomfortable；考查形容词。作者处于戒烟的状态，而身边的人都在抽烟，那么作者肯定会觉得不舒服，所以变成否定形式，故填uncomfortable。

9.delighted；考查动词。Delight作动词时意为“使高兴，使欣喜”，上文提到作者戒烟期间给妻子带来困扰，所以作者放弃戒烟了之后，妻子对生活回到正常状态感到高兴与愉悦，填delighted。

10.；考察指示代词。为了避免句子头重脚轻，it指代to give up smocking 保持句子结构平衡，句意明确。填it。

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