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Common Problems, Common Solutions
The chances are that you made up your mind about smoking a long time ago - and decided it’s not for you.
The chances are equally good that you know a lot of smokers - there are, after all about 60 million of them, work with them, and get along with them very well.
And finally it’s a pretty safe bet that you’re open-minded and interested in all the various issues about smokers and nonsmokers - or you wouldn’t be reading this.
And those three things make you incredibly (难以置信地) important today.
Because they mean that yours is the voice - not the smoker’s and not the anti-smoker’s - that will determine how much of society’s efforts should go into building walls that separate us and how much into the search for solutions that bring us together.
For one tragic result of the emphasis on building walls is the diversion (转移) of millions of dollars from scientific research on the causes and cures of diseases which, when all is said and done, still strike the nonsmoker as well as the smoker. One prominent (卓越的) health organization, to cite (引证) but a single instance, now spends 28 cents of every publicly contributed dollar on “education” (much of it in anti-smoking propaganda and only 2 cents on research.
There will always be some who want to build walls, who want to separate people from people, and up to a point, even these may serve society. The anti-smoking wall-builders have, to give them their due, helped to make us all more keenly aware of choice.
But our guess, and certainly our hope, is that you are among the far greatest number who know that walls are only temporary (暂时的) at best, and that over the long run, we can serve society’s interest better by working together in mutual accommodation.
Whatever virtue walls may have, they can never move our society toward fundamental solutions. People who work together on common problems, common solutions, can.
1、What does the word “wall” used in the passage mean?
A、Anti-smoking propaganda.
B、Diseases striking nonsmokers as well as smokers.
C、Rules and regulations that prohibit smoking.
D、Separation of smokers from nonsmokers.
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】 问题问“文章中的墙指代什么?”。利用wall这个线索词在文章中发现了位于第5段中答案相关句“……把我们(和吸烟者)分开的墙……。家族词的出现也是确认答案的线索：该题中separate在原文中separation在备选答案中。
2、In paragraph 4, “you” refers to ______.
A、smokers
B、nonsmokers
C、anti-smokers
D、smokers who have quitted smoking
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】 问题问“第4段中you 指代什么?”。You从第1段就开始出现，所以应指第1段中所说的“已经放弃吸烟的吸烟者”。
3、It is evident that the author is not in favor of ______.
A、building a wall between smokers and nonsmokers
B、doing scientific research at the expense of one’s health
C、bringing smokers and nonsmokers together
D、proving accommodation for smokers
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】 该题问“很明显作者不主张什么?”。文章的最后一段说“无论什么样的道德墙都未曾也不能推动我们的社会去解决基本的问题”，可见作者很反对wall的建立。而只有A提到了wall，所以选择A。
4、As is suggested, the common solution to the common problem is ______.
A、to separate people from people
B、to work together in mutual accommodation
C、to make us more keenly aware of choice
D、to serve society’s interests better
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】 该题问“正如在文章中所表明的那样，普通问题的普通解决的方法应该是……”。在第8段中可以找到答案。
5、According to the passage, the writer looks upon the anti-smoking wall-builders’ actions ______.
A、optimistically
B、pessimistically
C、unconcernedly
D、skeptically
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】 该题问“作者对建立吸烟隔离墙的行为的态度是什么?”。D “怀疑的”最合适。
