2003年职称英语综合c考试试题6.docxVIP

2003 年职称英语综合 C 考试试题 6 第三篇 Up in Smoke I began to smoke when I was in high school. In fact, I remember the evening I was at a girlfriends house, and we were watching a movie-a terribly romantic movie. He (the hero of the movie) was in love, she (his lady) was beautiful, and they were both smoking. My friend had only two cigarettes from a pack in her mothers purse, and she gave one to me. It was my first time. My parents didnt care much. They both smoked, and my older brother did too. My mother told me that smokers dont grow tall, but I was already56 老于世(taller than most of the boys in my class), so I was happy to hear that fact. 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( 故的). 老于世 I read a book called how to stop smoking. The writer said that smoking wastes time, and that cigarettes cost a lot of money. So what? I thought, the book didnt say that smoking can take away years of your life. But 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. I didnt pay much attention to the reports and warnings. I felt healthy, and I thought I was taking good care of myself. Then two events changed my mind. First, I started to cough. I thought it was just a cold, but it didnt 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, Nicotine（ 尼古丁 ）is a drug; as a result, cigarettes cause a powerful addiction. I tried several times to quit on my own-without success. I made ex