Unit Five Weeping From My Smoking Daughter
Understanding Statements
Listening Task 1
1. All parent-child relationships demand excellent communication skills.
2. Mother is feeling grateful for her daughter has quit smoking at last.
3. Tobacco advertising and film actors attracted her daughter to smoking.
4. My father's coughing was unnoticeable at the beginning.
5. Both my father and daughter smoked like chimneys.
6. Mr. Smith was talking over the phone, with a very white cigarette stuck in his mouth.
7. My father could not climb stairs without resting every third or fourth step.
8. The doctor tells us that the ends of cigarettes are so poisonous that if a baby swallows one, it is likely to die.
9. The tobacco companies win the money that should have been spent on food.
10. After he gave up smoking, he gained a couple of pounds in weight, but he was so slim that no one noticed.
Key: 1. (A) 2. (B) 3. (A) 4. (A) 5. (A) 6. (B) 7. (A) 8. (A) 9. (A) 10. (A)
Listening Task 2
1. Smoking is a form of lf-battering that also batters tho who must sit by.
2. She got hooked on heroin when she was very young.
3. Putting a bunch of cigarette ends into boiled water would make an effective incticide.
4. Smoking is lf-inju媒介经理
ry but it injures others more who watch their loved ones kill themlves slowly.
5. But before he smoked cigarettes, my father was young, tough, and confident, with brightly shining teeth.
6. I do not remember when I started to smoke but its effect has been slowly working on me.
7. The man who died starved himlf of air rather than food becau of lung illness.
8. Califano strongly argued that people should not be forced to breathe other's smoke.
9. Doctors believe that condhand smoke may cau lung cancer in people who do not smoke becau nonsmokers often breathe in the smoke from other people's cigarettes.
10. Even though many public places have nonsmoking areas, smoke flows in from the areas where smoking is permitted.
Key: 1.(C) 2.(A) 3.(A) 4.(C) 5.(D) 6.(C) 7.(B) 8.(B) 9.(C) 10.(A)
UNDERSTANDING SHORT CONVERSATIONS
1. W: Has your father stopped smoking?
M: He advo素描组合几何体
cates that every home is a no smoking zone.
Question: What does the man mean?
2. W: Did your read the rearch paper about the danger of smoking?
M: Oh ..特别的真正近义词
.. I understand your "well" meaning. Stopping smoking means healthy, wealthy and wi and peace But as
Question: What does the man imply?
3. W: I hear that your father has been hospitalized for lung cancer.
M: Three months already. He never stopped smoking until he was too weak to.
Question: What do we learn from the man?
4. W: Why don't you go to bed, Bill? You look so tired.
M: I have to finish another cigarette.
Question: What can we learn about the man?
5. M: I've been coughing badly all week.
W: Have you quit smoking yet?
Question: What does the woman imply?
6. W: How many years have you been smoking? How many cigarettes do you smoke every day? And how long have you been coughing badly?
M: I don't remember exactly. Maybe sometime in my teens.
Question: Where does this conversation most probably take place?
7. W: Marlboros and Players are too strong for me.
M: So you have got ud to Camels?
Question: What are the man and the woman talking about?
8. W: What is John busy doing now?
M: He is arching up and down for any cigarettes, ashtrays or lights. He has determined to say goodbye to them forever.
Question: What can we infer from the conversation?
9. W: Did Bill buy food for his family?
M: No, I think the only money has been spent on Camels.
Question: What can we learn about Bill?
10. W: I'm sorry to hear that John was fired.
M: I'm not. He's such an unbearable chimney in his office.
Question: Why did John lo his job?
11. W: Smoking is lf-poisoning.
M: Wor, I believe.
Question: What does the man mean?
12. W: George, do you know that mother is feel备课组长
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r smoking?
M: Sorry. I did not notice it. Actually I smoked only once in a 近代书法
while and for fun.
Question: What can we learn about George?
13. W: If I were you, I would like to go by air instead of by train.
M: There is no smoking area in the plane.
Question: Why did the man decide to go by train?
14. W: Have you heard about the discussion restraining smoke in public places?
