单选题 I began to smoke when I was in high school. My parents didn't care much. They both smoked, and my older brother did, too. In school, the teachers talked against smoking, but the cigarette advertisements were so exciting. The men in the ads were so good-looking and so successful, and the women were well, they were beautiful and sophisticated.
I read a book called how to stop smoking. The writer said that smoking wastes time, and that cigarettes cost a lot of money. Ten years later, everyone began to hear about the negative effects of cigarette smoke: lung disease, cancer, and heart problems. After that, there was a health warning on every pack of cigarettes.
Then two events made me think of giving up smoking. First, I started to cough. I thought it was just a cold, but it didn't get better. Second, my brother got lung cancer. He got sicker and sicker. My brother and I used to smoke cigarettes together over twenty years age, and we smoked our last cigarettes together the day before he died. I sat with him in his hospital room, and I decided to quit. "NO more cigarettes, ever. " I said to myself.
However, it was very hard to stop. I tried several times to quit on my own—without success. Finally, I ran out of excuses—I might say my excuses went up in smoke. I joined the "Stop Smoking" program at the local hospital, which also ended up in failure.

单选题 What is the author's main problem?
A. He started to cough. B. He got lung cancer.
C. He tried to give up smoking but failed. D. He regretted smoking in high school.

【正确答案】 C

【答案解析】推断题。见文章的第三、四段。第三段点明了作者决定戒烟的理由，而第四段反映作者屡次戒烟均告失败的结果。所以，可以推断选项C是最佳答案。

单选题 What the cigarette advertisements did NOT tell the audience when the author was young?
A. Both man and woman can smoke.
B. Smoking is dangerous.
C. Smoking has no negative effects on people's health.
D. Smoking is the symbol of successful people.

【正确答案】 B

【答案解析】是非推断题。见文章第一段的最后两句。它们描写了过去烟草广告中男人成功、老于事故，女人漂亮、健康的形象，完全没有反映出吸烟有害的一面。

单选题 The disadvantages of smoking in the book the author read do NOT include that ______.
A. it wastes time B. it makes people become older fast
C. it has negative effects on people's health D. it costs a lot of money

【正确答案】 B

【答案解析】是非题。见文章第二段的第二、三句。它们表明吸烟是一种浪费且有害健康，但没有提及吸烟会加速人的老化，故选择B。

单选题 The author did all he could do to give up smoking EXCEPT FOR ______.
A. reading a book about how to stop smoking
B. joining the "Stop Smoking" program
C. making up his mind to quit smoking
D. buying some medicines for quitting smoking

【正确答案】 D

【答案解析】是非题。文章的第二、三、四段分别提到了作者为戒烟所做的努力，但未包含因为戒烟而买药的事。所以，答案D符合题意。

单选题 What does the last paragraph in the passage try to tell us?
A. Smoking is hard to give up. B. Smoking is devil.
C. Smoking is useless. D. Smoking is harmful.

【正确答案】 A

【答案解析】推断题。文章最后一段的第一句已点明了该段大意，即戒烟难。