A new weapon is on the way in the fight against smoking in Europe. Soon when smokers buy cigarettes, they might see a shocking photo of a blackened lung or a cancer patient staring back at them from the packet.
Some boys may think of smoking as cool and sexy. Their friends won’t agree when they see their packets of cigarettes lying on the table.
The European Union announced on October 22, that it had chosen 42 photos that showed the damage cigarettes could do to the body. It called on member nations to put these pictures on packets to discourage young smokers.
To catch the attention of teenagers, the special packets warn of long-term medical dangers, like cancer. Short-term effects, like bad skin, are also on the list.
“The true fact of smoking is disease, death and horror. That is the message we should send to the young,” said David Byrne, an EU health official. “Hopefully these pictures will shock students out of their love for cigarettes.”
The EU head office hoped the pictures would work better than current written warnings on packs of cigarettes. The warning included “smoking kills” and “smoking can lead to a slow and painful death.”
So far, Ireland and Belgium have shown interest in the photos. Canada has used similar pictures and warnings on cigarette packs since 2000. The country has recently seen a fall in the number of smokers.
According to studies, smoking is the single biggest cause of avoidable death in EU. Every year more than 650,000 smokers die, more than one person a minute.
【小题1】What would be the best title for the text?A．New Ways to Stop Smoking.B．Pictures to Shock Smokers.C．New Packers of Cigarettes.D．Dangers of Smoking.【小题2】Which of the following is NOT the true face of smoking? A．Disease.B．Death.C．Horror.D．Happinese.【小题3】We can learn from the test that .A．The EU countries have put the new warning method into practiceB．only a small number of the EU countries have used the new warning methodC．the new warning method has worked in some EU countriesD．countries in the EU still use the old warning method【小题4】Which country is most successful in stopping smoking?A．Ireland.B．Belgium.C．Canada.D．EU【小题5】The underlined sentence in the last paragraph suggests that .A．It’s hard to stop smoking in EUB．deaths caused by smoking could have been avoidedC．smoking is the biggest cause of deaths in EUD．EU has the largest number of deaths caused by smokingB
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(答案→)B
解析：
烟草是造成疾病和早亡的“罪魁祸首”，而由此引起的疾病和早亡本来是可以避免的。但吸烟者和一些准备开始吸烟的人对烟草可能带来的危害并不十分了解，他们中不少人只笼统知道“吸烟有害健康”。
【小题1】主旨大意题。本文属新闻报道类，第一段交代了文章的中心，欧盟号召成员国采取一些宣传吸烟有害健康的照片，以此来警示吸烟者。
【小题2】细节理解题。根据文章第五段第一句“The true fact of smoking is disease, death and horror.可知应选D。
【小题3】推理判断题。分析文章的信息，我们可以得出结论，文章介绍的一种新措施仅仅还是一个设想，还没有付诸实施，因此断定欧盟国家仍旧沿用旧的警示方式。
【小题4】细节理解题。文章倒数第二段说明加拿大因为采取了类似的警示措施，吸烟人数有所下降。Canada has used similar pictures and warnings on cigarette packs since 2000. The country has recently seen a fall in the number of smokers.
【小题5】语意理解题。本句的意思是：在欧盟，吸烟是唯一能够避免的造成死亡的最重要的原因。即：吸烟造成的死亡本来可以避免。