Choose the word that best fits each gap of the passage:
To many people, smoking is not just a pleasure, it is an (1) ______.
They need it, depend on it and can't stop it. If they haven't smoked for
some hours, they feel a (2) _____for a cigarette. They often (3) ______
which means they light another cigarette immediately after they have
(4) ____ out the one before.
Smoking is often considered (5) ______, since many people don't
like the (6) _______ of cigarettes or the sight of the smoker's (7)
_______fingers or ashtray full of cigarette – ends. Above all, smoking is
harmful to health and in many countries a (8) _______ is printed on
every (9) _______of cigarettes. Scientists have proved that there is a
link between smoking and a disease which can be (10)_______ cancer.
1.A attraction
B addition
C addiction
D
admiration
2.A likeness
B craving
C like
D desire
3.A over-smoke B self-smoke
C chain-smoke D non-smoke
4.A thought
B made
C put
D given
5.A militant
B antisocial
C illegal
D anti-pollutant
6.A odour
B smell
C taste
D flavour
7.A stained
B dirty
C dusty
D spotted
8.A saying
B signal
C sign
D warning
9.A pack
B packing
C packet
D backpack
10.A fatal
B hard
C immoral
D
perilous
Clean freshwater resources are essential for drinking, bathing,
cooking, irrigation, industry, and for plant and animal (11) ____.
Unfortunately, the global supply of freshwater is (12) ____ unevenly.
Chronic water shortages (13) ____ in most of Africa and drought is
common over much of the globe. The (14) ____ of most freshwater
supplies - groundwater (water located below the soil surface),
reservoirs, and rivers - are under severe and (15) ____ environmental
stress because of overuse, water pollution, and ecosystem
degradation. Over 95 percent of urban sewage in (16) ____ countries is
(17) ____ untreated into surface waters such as rivers and harbors;
About 65 percent of the global freshwater supply is used in (18) ____
and 25 percent is used in industry. Freshwater (19) ____ therefore
requires a reduction in wasteful practices like (20) ____ irrigation,
reforms in agriculture and. industry, and strict pollution controls
worldwide.
11.A.survive
B.survived
C.surviving
D.survival
12.A.delivered B.distributed
C.provided
D.given
13.A.exist
B.lie
C.show
D.stay
14.A.resources B.springs
C.sources
D.starting

15.A.increasing B.growing
D.ascending
16.A.growing
B.miserable
D.developing
17.A.recharged B.discharged
D.discharging
18.A.farming
B.planting
D.growing
19.A.reservation
B.conservation
20.A.ineffective B.illogical

C.climbing
C.poverty
C.charged
C.agriculture
C.preservation D.retention
C.irrational
D.inefficient

GLOBAL WARMING
Few people now question the reality of global warming and its
effects on the world's climate. Many scientists (21)_________ the blame
for recent natural disasters on the increase (22)_________ the world's
temperatures and are convinced that, more than (23)_________ before,
the Earth is at (24)_________ from the forces of the wind, rain and sun.
(25)_________ to them, global warming is making extreme weather
events, (26)_________ as hurricanes and droughts, even more
(27)_________ and causing sea levels all around the world to (28)
_________.
Environmental groups are putting (29)_________ on governments
to take action to reduce the (30)_________ of carbon dioxide which is
given (31)_________ by factories and power plants, thus attacking the
problem at its source. They are in (32)_________ of more money being
spent on research into solar, wind and wave energy devices, which
could then replace existing power (33)_________.
Some scientists, (34)_________, believe that even if we stopped
releasing carbon dioxide and other gases into the atmosphere
tomorrow, we would have to wait (35)_________ hundred years to
notice the results. Global warming, it seems, is to stay.
21.A. put
B. have
C. take
D. give
22.A. to
B. by
C. in
D. at
23.A. yet
B. once
C. never
D. ever
24.A. risk
B. danger
C. threat
D. harm
25.A. Concerning B. Depending
C. Regarding
D.
According
26.A. such
B. just
C. well
D. even
27.A. strong
B. strict
C. severe
D. heavy
28.A. arise
B. raise
C. rise
D. lift
29.A. pressure
B. encouragement C. force
D.
persuasion
30.A. count
B. deal
C. number
D. amount
31.A. over
B. off
C. away
D. up

32.A. request
33.A. factories
houses
34.A.moreover
35.A. over
numerous

B. belief
B. stations

C. suggestion
D. favour
C. generations
D.

B. but
B. several

C. however
C. various

D. although
D.