2013浙江大学考博英语阅读试题.doc

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Today,cigarette smoking is mon habit. About forty-three percent of the adult menand thirty-one percent of the adult women in the United States smoke cigarettesregularly. It is encouraging to see that millions of people have given upsmoking.
It is a fact that men as a group smoke more than women. Among both men andwomen the age group with the highest proportion of smokers is 24-44.
e, education, and occupation all play a part in determining a person’ssmoking habit. City people smoke more than people living on -educated men with high es are less likely to smoke cigarettes thanmen with fewer years of schooling and lower es. On the other hand, if awell-educated man with a higher e smoked at all, he is likely to smokemore packs of cigarettes per day.
The situation is somewhat different for women.(80)There are slightly moresmokers among women with higher family e and higher education than amongthe lower e and lower educational groups. These more highly educated womentend to smoke more heavily.
Among teenagers the picture is similar. There are fewer teenaged smokers fromupper-e, well-educated families, and fewer from families living in farmareas. Children are most likely to start smoking if one or both of theirparents smoke.
1. What do we know from the first paragraph ?
and more people take up the habit of smoking.
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