独家英语阅读理解练习题(1)

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Most of the ill heath we suffer could be prevented if people made more effort to change their life styles. Instead, many people continue to smoke, to drink excessively and to eat unbalanced diets. How can governments help people protect their health and avoid premature death?

Well, many of the measures which need to be taken are primarily a matter of new legislation and need not he expensive. One of the first preventive health measures should be an increase in taxes on tobacco to the point at which consumption falls off. The aim should be to raise the same amount of revenue from a decreasing number of people. In the short term such a policy could even raise extra money, which could then be spent on subsidisings sport so that advertising tobacco through sports sponsorship could be banned.

Legislation is badly needed to ban all advertising of tobacco products as it persuades people to smoke more and so is in a larger part responsible for the ill health and thousands of premature deaths caused by cancer of the lung. Other measures should he enforced , such as a much tougher health warning on cigarette packets, and tobacco companies should be made to contribute to research into a cure for lung cancer.

Alcoholism could he prevented by making wines, spirits and strong beers more expensive and the revenue raised could be used to set up clinics to help the people who already have a drinking problem and want to give up. Similarly all advertising of alcohol should be banned and compensation paid to families of alcoholics who die of the liver disease.

1. Among the following statements, which one is not the life style that people should make more efforts to change in order to suffer less?

A. stop smoking                 B. drink less

C. eat balanced food                D. collect stamps

2.   What does "revenue" in the second paragraph mean?

A. the general income of a government

B. pocket money

C. broad street with trees on both sides

D. building built in memory of somebody or some event

3.   Which of the following answers is wrong as to the result of new legislation on tobacco?

A. In a short term, the new legislation will raise money for the country.

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