答案:C
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.
解析:推理判断题。根据第三段中的"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'." 和"...offering a cigarette is useful for socializing ..."以及第四段中的"...they couldn't give up smoking because of the offering-and-accepting culture."可推知人们难以拒绝敬烟是因为他们认为offering-and-accepting是一种社交方式,拒绝就意味着不礼貌。只有B项文中没有提及。
答案:B
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 wastes a lot of money
C.smoking is helpful to the tobacco market
D.the tobacco market attracts too many smokers
解析:推理判断题。从全文知,作者对吸烟是持否定态度的,所以500 billion yuan意味着巨大的经济浪费。
答案:B
5.We can infer from the passage that ________.
A.people will be free to smoke
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
解析:推理判断题。由倒数第二段中"...they couldn't give up smoking because of the offering-and-accepting culture."和"...people have accepted offering cigarettes as an effective way of making friends..."可推知,人们认为接受敬烟是一种社交礼仪,故而有的不吸烟的人也会接受别人敬烟。
答案:D
Ⅵ.七选五阅读
Choosing the right job is probably one of the most important decisions we have to make in life and it is frequently one of the hardest decisions we have to make. One important question that you might ask yourself is: "How do I get a good job?" __1__
There are people who can answer an insignificant advertisement in the local paper and land the best job in the world;others write to all sorts of places all