题型：阅读理解 题类：期中考试 难易度：较易
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I've written 14 movies. My characters smoke in many of them, and they look cool and glamorous doing it. Smoking was an integral（必需的） part of many of my screenplays because I was a heavy smoker. It was part of a bad-boy image I'd cultivated for a long time— smoking, drinking, partying, rock 'n' roll.
Smoking, I once believed, was every person's right. The second-hand smoke was non-existent problem invented by professional do-gooders. I put all these views into my plays.
Remembering all this, I find it hard to forgive myself. I have been an accomplice (帮凶) to the murders of untold numbers of human beings. I am admitting this only because I have made a deal with God. Spare me, I said, and I will try to stop others from committing the same crimes I did.
Eighteen months ago I was diagnosed with throat cancer, the result of a lifetime of smoking. I am alive but disabled. Much of my larynx (喉) is gone. I have some difficulty speaking; others have some difficulty understanding me.
I haven't smoked or drunk for 18 months now, though I still take it day by day and pray for help. I believe in prayer and exercise. I have walked five miles a day for a year, without missing even one day. Quitting smoking and drinking has taught me the hardest lesson I've ever learned about my own weakness; it has also given me the greatest affection and empathy(同感) for those still addicted.
I don't think smoking is every person's right anymore. I think smoking should be as illegal as heroin. I'm no longer such a bad boy. I go to church on Sunday. I'm desperate to see my four boys grow up. I want to do everything I can to undo the damage I have done with my own big-screen words and images.
Screen writers know, too, that some movie stars are more likely to play a part if they can smoke —because they are so addicted to smoking that they have difficulty stopping even during the shooting of a scene.
My hands are bloody; so are Hollywood's. My cancer has caused me to attempt to cleanse me. I don't wish my fate upon anyone in Hollywood, but I beg that Hollywood should stop putting it upon millions of others.
| A. the writer is ashamed of the bad effects his screenplays have had on human beings
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| B. the writer's smoking experience nearly killed himself
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| C. the bad effects that Hollywood screenplay have brought to children
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| D. the determination of the writer to overcome his illness |
| A. So many people have found the habit of smoking due to his plays.
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| B. His plays have brought great harm to teenagers.
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| C. He himself suffered greatly from smoking.
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| D. His screenplays have been doing more and more harm to human beings. |
| A. He has made up his mind to give up smoking forever.
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| B. He will try his best to prevent others from writing screen plays encouraging smoking.
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| C. He will try his best to bring up his four children.
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| D. He has decided to write his screenplays without smoking scenes. |
| A. the writer will soon be recovered from his illness thanks to his exercise
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| B. the writer will soon die because of his deadly disease
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| C. smoking will be got rid of in all Hollywood films
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| D. smoking in Hollywood films is still doing great harm to human beings |
