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1、 Unit 2 English around the world.阅读理解AImagine this: Youre at the movies seeing the latest boxoffice hit.The leading actor chases down(找到) the films bad guy before winning over the beautiful leading lady.What does he do next? He sucks on a cigarette.Whats wrong with this picture? Doesnt the beautiful
2、 woman see her heros yellow teeth? Doesnt she smell his smoky breath? And wouldnt the good guy have trouble chasing，since smoking causes a person to cough?But you dont see any of that when someone smokes cigarettes in the movies.And there is a lot of smoking in movies.Actors light up in more than 50
3、 percent of youthrated (G，PG，PG13) movies，according to the American Legacy Foundation，which aims to put an end to smoking among young people.That means that Hollywood is showing 14 billion images of smoking to young people every year.All that exposure to onscreen smoking can influence teens to smoke
4、.The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) argues that 44 percent of teens who begin smoking do so because theyve seen smoking in movies.The CDC reports that teens are two to three times more likely to start smoking after seeing repeated smoking scenes in movies than teens who are lightly
5、exposed to smoking in movies.Several organizations are working to remove smoking in youthrated movies.And adults are not the only ones who care about this issue.Many teens are actively involved.Livia Clandorf,16，of Chatham，New York，is a member of Reality Check，an organization that educates teens abo
6、ut what it considers to be the manipulative (巧妙处理的) practices of tobacco companies.Livia participated in an event called a “movie stomp (跺脚)”. Reality Check rents out a movie theater and screens a youthrated film that shows smoking.Every time audience members see smoking，they stomp their feet and sh
7、ow disapproval by shouting “boo”语篇解读本文是一篇说明文。据调查，电影中大量的抽烟镜头正诱使越来越多的青少年开始抽烟。1What is the picture you are asked to imagine like according to the author?AIts touching.BIts beautiful.CIts frightening.DIts unreasonable.解析：推理判断题。由第二段中一连串的问句及第三段开头的But you dont see any of that when someone smokes cigarettes
8、 in the movies可推断，作者认为这种电影情节忽略了抽烟的坏处，与现实不符，是极不合理的。答案：D2What does the underlined part “light up” in Paragraph 3 mean?AGuide with a light.BBegin to smoke.CShow pleasure.DProvide light.解析：词义猜测题。由上文的there is a lot of smoking in movies及下文的showing 14 billion images of smoking可推断，画线短语所在部分的意思是“一半以上的青少年电影中男演
9、员会点火抽烟”。故画线部分的意思是“开始抽烟”。答案：B3What can be inferred from the CDCs words?AOver 50 percent of teens smoke.BTeens should watch more movies.CMany movies cause teens to smoke.DTeens are less likely to smoke than adults.解析：推理判断题。由第四段中的44 percent of teens who begin smoking do so because theyve seen smoking i
10、n movies及The CDC reports that.lightly exposed to smoking in movies可推断，很多电影中的抽烟情节使青少年逐渐加入烟民的行列。答案：C4When will participants in a “movie stomp” stomp their feet?AWhen they are active.BWhen they are excited.CWhen they feel like smoking.DWhen they see smoking scenes.解析：细节理解题。由文章末的Every time audience memb
11、ers see smoking，they stomp their feet可知，参与者看到电影中抽烟的情节时就一起跺脚。答案：DBIts well known to car drivers that red means “stop”，green means “go”，and yellow means “hurry up and make that damn light”Why those colors，though? The answer lies in the fact that the earliest traffic signals were designed for trains，no
12、t cars.They were red and green，gaspowered，and more than a little dangerous in the event of a leak.Red is an inherited(继承的) symbol from railroads，which symbolizes danger in many cultures.As red has a longer wavelength than any other color on the visible spectrum (光谱)，it can be seen from a greater dis
13、tance than other colors.Red has meant “stop” since long before cars existed，with train signals use of red dating back to the days when mechanical arms lifted and lowered to indicate whether the rail ahead was clear.Greens wavelength is next to (and shorter than) yellows on the visible spectrum，meani
14、ng its still easier to see than any color other than red and yellow. Back in the early days of railway lights，green meant “caution”，while the “allclear” light was，well，clear or white.It is said that several disastrous collisions happened after an engineer mistook stars in the night for an allclear.T
15、hus，green became “go”，and for a long time，railways used only green and red to signal trains.From the earliest days of motoring up until the mid1900s，not all stop signs were redmany were yellow，because at night it was all but impossible to see a red stop sign in a poorly lit area.In 1915 the yellow s
16、topsign craze began in Detroit，a city that five years later installed its first electric traffic signal，which happened to include the very first yellow traffic light.But what of those mysterious yellow stop signs？As materials and technologies evolved，the ability to produce highly reflective signs meant that red could resume its natural spot in
