Cigarettes can seriously damage your countryside. Fanned by 112km/h Santa Ana winds, fire
A.evacuated
B.slip
C.run
D.rush
A.evacuated
B.slip
C.run
D.rush
A.the anti-smoking advertisements are not convincing owing to their exaggeration
B.the teenage smokers developed the habit of smoking out of the compulsory pressure from their schoolmates
C.smoking is a relatively low-costing bad habit
D.one can always get cigarettes in pubs when vending machines are removed
It was______matter that I had no choice but to talk it over with my parents.
A.a such serious
B.a so serious
C.such serious a
D.so serious a
There are a number of factors, which determine the onset of smoking, and these are largely psychological and social. They include availability of cigarettes, curiosity, rebelliousness, appearing thought, anticipation of adulthood, social confidence, the example of parents and teachers, and smoking by friends and older brothers and sisters.
It should be much easier to prevent children from starting to smoke than to persuade adults to give up the habit once established, but in fact this has proved very difficult. The example set by people in authority, especially parents, health care workers, and teachers, is of prime importance. School roles should forbid smoking by children on the premises. This role has been introduced at Summerhill School where I spent my schooldays.
There is, however, a risk of children smoking just to rebel against the rules, and even in those schools which have tried to enforce no smoking by corporal punishment there is as much smoking as in other schools. Nevertheless, banning smoking is probably on balance beneficial. Teachers too should not smoke on school premises, at least not in front of children.
In this passage the author puts an emphasis on ______.
A.the effect of smoking among children
B.the difficulty in preventing children from smoking
C.the reasons why children start smoking among children
D.the measures to ban smoking among children
A Health Profile
A health profile is a portrait of all of the factors that influence your health. To draw your health profile, you will(1)what diseases run in your family, what health hazards you may be exposed to(2)work, how your daily(3)compares to the recommended standards, how much time per week you(4)exercising and what type of exercise you engage(5), how stressful your work and family environments are, what kinds of illnesses you get regularly, and(6)or not you have any one of a number of addictions.(7)this portrait, your should have a checkup to determine how your blood, heart, and lungs are functioning. This checkup will serve(8)a baseline, to which you can then compare later tests.
(9)this profile is thoroughly drawn, you can begin to think about setting health priorities based(10)your particular portrait. For example, if you drink two martinis every evening, have a high-stress(11), are overweight, smoke a pack of cigarettes a day, and use marijuana occasionally on weekends, you should quit smoking first, followed(12)losing the excess weight, reducing the stress of your job, giving up your marihuana habit, and then finally giving some(13)to those martinis if you want to prevent first cancer, and then heart disease. Even for the youthful working person who has never been sick a day in his life, who is(14)excellent health, a good look at all health habits and at work and home environments may suggest changes that will(15)him in the future.
profile n. 侧影,概貌
hazard n. 危险,危害
checkup n. 健康检查,体检
martini n. 马提尼酒
baseline n. 基础,起点
marihuana n. 大麻烟 (一种毒品)
A.know
B.have known
C.need know
D.need to know
A.rejeced
B.discards
C.abandond
D.quit
A.To buy cigarettes with less tar.
B.To smoke only a few cigarettes a day.
C.To smoke only during a break.
D.To give up smoking entirely.
A.towards
B.for
C.with
D.to
People can make poor decisions when it comes to health--despite their best intentions. It's not easy abiding by wholesome choices (giving up French fries) when the consequences of not doing so (heart disease) seem so far in the future. Most people are bad at judging their health risks: smokers generally know cigarettes cause cancer, but they also tend to believe they're less likely than other smokers to get it. And as any snack-loving dieter can attest, people can be comically inept at predicting their future .behavior. You swear you will eat just one potato chip but don't stop until the bag is empty.
So, what does it take to motivate people to stick to the path set by their conscious brain? How can good choices be made to seem more appealing than bad ones? The problem stumps doctors, public-health officials and weight-loss experts, but one solution may spring from an unlikely source. Meet your new personal trainer: your boss.
American businesses have a particular interest in personal health, since worker illness costs them billions each year in insurance claims, sick days and high staff turnover. A 2008 survey of major US employers found that 64% consider their employees' poor health decisions a serious barrier to affordable insurance coverage. Now some companies are tackling the motivation problem head on, using tactics drawn from behavioral psychology to nudge their employees to get healthy.
"It's a bit paradoxical that employers need to provide incentives for people to improve their own health," says Michael Follick, a behavioral psychologist at Brown University and president of the consultancy Abacus Employer Health Solutions.
Paradoxical, maybe, but effective. Consider Amica Mutual Insurance, based in Rhode Island. Arnica seemed to be doing everything right: it boasts an on-site fitness center at its headquarters. It pays toward Weight Watchers and smoking-cessation help, gives gift cards to reward proper prenatal care and offers free flu shots each year. Still, in the mid-2000s, about 7% of the company's insured population, including roughly 3 100 employees and their dependents, had diabetes. "We manage risk. That's our core business," says Scott Boyd, Amica's director of compensation and benefits. But diabetes-related claims from Arnica employees had doubled in four years. "We thought, OK," Boyd says now, "we have to manage these high-risk groups a little better. "
In the first paragraph, we can infer that the Americans ______.
A.vow to diet in the new year
B.fear to lose weight
C.have poor decision in keeping healthy diet
D.succeed in losing weight
A.version
B.induction
C.agenda
D.equivalent