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          People have smoked for a long time now. The tobacco which is used to make cigarettes was the first grown in what is now part of the United States. Christopher Columbus, who (1)..... American, (2)..... Indians smoking, soon the dried leaves were transported to Europe where smoking began to catch on. (3)..... the late 1800s, the Turkish made cigarettes popular.

          Cigarette smoke contains at least (4)..... harmful subtances, tar and nicotine. Tar, which forms (5)..... the tobacco burns, damages the lungs (6)...... therefore affects breathing. Nicotine, which is found in the leaves, causes the (7)..... to beat faster and increases the breathing rate.

          Smoking cigarettes is dangerous. The US Publich Health Service stated that (8)..... smoking is the cause of lung cancer and several (9)..... deadly diseases. Many government in the world now require that each package of cigarettes bears s special warning about the (10)..... of smoking.

II. Fill in each of the numbered blanks with ONE suitable word to complete the following passages.(7p)
Doctors have reported that vitamins are substances required for the proper functioning of the body. In this century, thirteen vitamins have been (1)¬ ________________. A lack of any vitamins in a person’s body can cause (2) ________________. In some cases, an excess of vitamins can also (3)¬¬ ________________ to illness. For example, sailors in the past were prone to suffer from scurvy that is a disease resulting (4) ________________   the lack of vitamin C. It causes bleeding of the gum, loss of teeth and skin rashes. Sailors suffer from scurvy because they did not eat fruits and vegetables. Fruits  and vegetables (5) ________________ vitamin C which is necessary for good (6) ________________.
Today, vitamins are available in the form of pills and can easily be (7) _______________ at any pharmacy.

VII. Fill in each numbered gap with one suitable word to complete the following passage.

A long time ago, robots belonged to science fiction. But today, robots (1)______ real, and they are helping us. In the future, we will  all have robots. They (2)_____ clean the floor, wash the dishes, cook meals, take care (3)______ children, make drinks and do many other housework. I even think one day we’ll have robots friends. In Japan today, robot engineers are making robots to (4)______ old people. It’s still early days. I’d say we are another 20 to 30 years away from robots being everywhere in our lives. What will happen to us (5)______ the world is full of robots? Maybe one day we won’t be able to tell robots and humans apart.

VII. Fill each of the numbered blanks in the following passage with one suitable word.

It fascinates me to observe the way in …1… children so often react against their parents’ ideas, while at the same time …2… their parents’ characteristics. That is to say, the children grow up to …3… different views from their parents, yet to have …4… personalities. There is a …5… going on in the toy world at present over whether children should be …6… to have war toys, but I do not see any …7… in forbidding them when I think of the …8… of my friend Harry.

Harry is the ....9... of strict parents who were totally opposed to war. He was never allowed toy soldiers …10… a boy, never allowed toy guns. Harry grew up and went into the army, becoming a first-class soldier and …11… all sorts of military honours in a rather fierce unit. He became the opposite in …12… way of what his parents might have expected …13… their son. And yet there is a gentleness about Harry which shows a …14… personality. There is a sympathetic element about the man which I can see …15… have come from his family. In …16… of doing things differently from our parents, a lot of the spirit get passed on.

Parents in all conscience have to …17… their children what they believe to be right; but it is not so much your ideas that the children …18… as your example. Perhaps the …19… way to teach one’s child gentleness is not to forbid toy guns, but to be gentle in one’s …20… everyday life.

VII. Fill each of the numbered blanks with one suitable word.

We live in an .....1..... when television is the national pastime. Since the invention of the television ....2..., people have been ....3.... more of their ....4.... time watching television than doing anything ....5.... Many of the television addicts feel that this particular pastime is not a bad .....6.... Indeed, they argue that people can learn a great deal watching television. I am ....7.... that if you look long and hard enough, you can probably....8.... some programmes that are educationally motivating. But for the most ....9...., I can say that watching television is a ....10.... of time.

Part IV. Read the following passage and fill in each gap with a suitable word in the box. ONE word will not be used.

Ever since it was first possible to make a real robot, people have been hoping for the invention of a machine that would do all the necessary jobs around the house. If boring and repetitive factory work could be (26)________ by robots, why not boring and repetitive household chores too? For a long time the only people who really gave the problem their attention were amateur inventors And they came up against a major difficulty. That is, housework is actually very (27) ________. It has never been one job it has always been many. A factory robot carried one task endlessly until it is reprogrammed to do something else. It doesn‟t run the whole factory. A housework robot on the other hand, has to do several different (28) ________ of cleaning and carrying jobs and also has to cope (29) ________ all the different shapes and positions of rooms, furniture, ornaments, cats and dogs. (30) ________, there have been some developments recently. Sensors are available to help the robot locate objects and avoid obstacles. We have the technology to produce the hardware. All that is missing the software- the programs that will operate the machine.

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US Government Bans e-Cigarette Sales to Minors

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is banning the sale of e-cigarettes and some other tobacco products to people under age 18 for the first time, a move designed to prevent a new generation from being addicted to nicotine.

In addition to e-cigarettes, the FDA announced a ban on the sale of pipe tobacco, hookah tobacco and cigars to minors. The FDA already regulates cigarettes, smokeless tobacco and roll-your-own tobacco products.

E-cigarettes have grown into a $3 billion industry, as their use rises among middle- and high school students. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the FDA say 3 million middle- and high schoolers reported using e-cigarettes in 2015, an increase from around 2.5 million the year before.

The new rules - which take effect in 90 days - require makers of the tobacco products to submit them for regulatory review, provide a list of ingredients and place health warnings on packages and in advertisements.

Question 2: (10 points) Fill ONE suitable word into each of the numbered blanks to complete the following letter. Write your answers in the space provided.

I             (1) in  a house near the sea.  It is     (2) old house, about 100             (3) old and it's very small.                              (4)  are  two  bed  rooms  upstairs  but  no  bathroom.  The  bathroom  is downstairs,

            (5) to the kitchen and there is a living room where there is a lovely old fire place. There is a

            (6) in front of the house.  The garden       (7) down to the beach and in Spring and Summer there are flowers every where.  I like alone             (8) my dog, Rack, but we have a lot of visitors. My city friends often stay with me.

I love my house for many           (9): the garden, the flowers in Summer, the fire in Winter, but the best thing is the view         (10) my bedroom window.

Your anwers:

VII. Fill each of the numbered blanks in the following passage with only ONE suitable word in each space. Write your answer on your answer sheet.

My wife and I have always enjoyed travelling ...................(1) sea, and last year we decided to go ....................(2) a Mediterranean cruise.  .................(3) our holiday was rather expensive we thought that the high standard of accommodation, the first-class food and the many interesting places we saw were well .....................(4) the price we paid.

We found that most of ......................(5) other passengers were friendly and interesting, but there was one man, a Mr James, who irritated and annoyed us, and not .......................(6) us but all the others who shared our table at dinner. Whatever subject we talked about, it seemed that he was an expert .......................(7) it. He ....................(8), apparently, read more books, visited more countries and studied more languages, than anyone ..........................(9). After a few days, we ate our meals in ..........................(10), because nobody wanted to begin a conversation that would soon be taken over by this man