Eat，drink can be merry．That’s what the spring Festival is a11 about．But there are millions of people，too,who love to 1et happiness go up in smoke．　

　 Offering cigarettes to guests is a traditional Chinese way of showing respect to them．A cup of tea and cigarettes are perhaps the most common way of welcoming a guest in China，especially during festive occasions.

　 No wonder，40 percent of the people surveyed recently said they would smoke at least twice the usual number of cigarettes during the spring Festival because of all those gatherings and parties. Only 20 percent of the respondents said they would refuse a cigarette when offered one．Why can't the others do the same? Because they could be seen as being rude，said more than half of the respondent. Fifteen percent feared they could be taken as“ someone who cannot get along well with others”．The Think-tank Research Center for Health Development and sohu.com.survey．shows 6l

percent Chinese think offering a cigarette is useful for socializing，and 52 percent have offered cigarettes to others. the study surveyed 3,800 people，64 percent of were men．　 ．　 ，

One-third of those surveyed were smokers，out of which 57 percent said they couldn’t give up smoking because of the offering-and accepting culture．“People have accepted offering cigarettes as an effective way of making friends,” research center director Wu Yiqun said．

China has more than 350 million smokers，catering to the tobacco market that is worth 500 billion yuan.“The survey shows we sti11 have a 1ot of work to do” Wu said．It is time to let people know that offering a cigarette is a bad habit and it should be given up immediately．”

1．The passage is written with the purpose of______>

A．telling us a custom about the Chinese Spring Festival

B．Introducing a way to make friends with Chinese

C．Stopping smoking

D．telling us that offering cigarettes is a bad habit

2．The third paragraph mainly tells us_______．

A. the fact that smokers are greatly increasing during the festival

B. the reason why refusing cigarettes is acceptable

C．the fact that many people have to smoke more cigarettes during the festival

D. it is rude to attend parties without smoking cigarettes

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．

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

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 wi1l even accept the offered cigarettes

 

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