听力试题

Questions 4 to 6 are based on the following passage. At the end of the passage, you will be given 15 seconds to answer the questions.

Now，listen to the passage.

4. What does the campaign intend to tell people?

A. Smokers will quit smoking if they don't smoke on the 28th of this month.

B. Smokers will smoke again if they don't touch cigarette for 28 days.

C. Smokers can quit smoking if they refuse to smoke five times a day.

D. Smokers are more likely to quit smoking if they give up smoking for 28 days.

5. What can we learn from the passage?

A. The campaign is doomed to be a failure.

B. Giving up smoking for 28 days, one is sure to say goodbye to cigarette.

C. The campaign is a support for smokers to make up their mind to quit smoking

D. To quit smoking, one doesn't need support.

6. Why are some people not in favor of the campaign?

A. Because tobacco addicts can be easily influenced by each other.

B. Because giving up smoking is as easy as stopping eating to keep fit.

C. Because it's tolerable y for everyone has weakness.

D. Because it neglects the reasons why people get into smoking.

答案详解

【听力答案】

4.D 5. C 6. D

【听力原文】

Passage 2

Smokers in England have been asked to give up smoking for 28 days this month, in a campaign backed by Cancer Research UK.（4）Research shows people who manage not to light up a cigarette for this length of time are five times more likely to get rid of the habit.（研究表明，吸烟者如果28天内不吸烟，他们戒烟的可能性要比每天吸烟的人高5倍。）Quitting smoking can be difficult. (5)People are much more likely to succeed if they get support than if they try to do it alone.（获得支持的烟民要比孤军奋战的人更容易戒烟成功。）Robert West, Director of Tobacco Studies at University College London, points out how peer pressure can prevent a tobacco addict from going on smoking. "We are social animals，we are herd animals and we are influenced by each other," he said.

The initiative has met some skepticism among readers of the BBC News Online website. Some compared it to asking people to stop eating as a way of combating obesity. Others doubt the campaign's effectiveness.（6）"Its that it fails to address why a person smokes, and these reasons are as varied as the number of smokers", says someone who signed as BluesBerry.（这个运动的缺点在于没有说明人们为什么要吸烟，每个烟民都各有各的原因。）Another reader, Cazz, has decided to give it some credit. He says: "Campaigns like this won't necessarily persuade the majority of smokers to quit, but may lead those thinking about quitting to set a date and try to quit. Surely it's worth a shot."

【核心词汇】

addict n.瘾君子；对……入迷的人

address v.解决,处理

campaign n.运动

majority n.大多数

skepticism n.怀疑态度