Reading comprehension -TOEFL- Lesson 35 Đọc hiểu -TOEFL- Bài 35 Đọc đoạn văn sau và trả lời các câu hỏi: According to top executives in the industry, cigarette smoking is merely a nice h
Trang 1Reading comprehension -TOEFL- Lesson 35 (Đọc hiểu -TOEFL- Bài 35) Đọc đoạn văn sau và trả lời các câu hỏi:
According to top executives in the industry, cigarette smoking is merely a nice habit, to be compared with chewing gum or drinking your morning cup of coffee, and is no more addictive than eating candies But what is in fact the difference between eating donuts 5 and smoking cigarettes? It is one of possible obesity or possible death
In the U.S about 400,000 deaths a year can be attributed to cigarette smoking Cigarette makers insist that there is no proof that heart 10 disease, even lung cancer, or any other disease, is actually caused by cigarettes They deny adding nicotine to cigarettes; they even deny nicotine is addictive They say that if it was, how could 40 million Americans have given up smoking in the last 20 years They compare it to coffee drinking and ask if coffee manufacturers are 15 accused of adding caffeine to their coffee
Whatever the facts are, there is no doubt however that cigarette manufacturers do try to entice young people, even in their teens, to smoke, by advertisements and promotions that create an image even more addictive 20 than the nicotine in cigarettes
1 What is the best title for the passage?
(A) The Habits of Americans
(B) Comparisons between Eating and Smoking
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(D) How Addictive Cigarette Smoking Is
2 What is the attitude of cigarette manufacturers to nicotine?
(A) It has to be added to cigarettes
(B) It is not addictive
(C) It is better than caffeine
(D) It is not as good as advertising
3 Why do cigarette makers compare cigarette smoking with coffee drinking?
(A) Because both are customary practices people do
(B) Because they are both better than eating donuts
(C) Because neither are really nice habits
(D) Because both add an addictive substance to their product
4 As used in line 18 the word "entice" means?
(A) to offer free
(B) to attract
(C) to addict
(D) to show
5 The author implies in the passage that cigarette manufacturers do?
(A) try to avoid making cigarettes addictive
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Trang 3(B) succeed in making cigarette smoking like eating donuts (C) have an addictive product
(D) worry about how addictive their products are