Common Problems, Common Solutions
The chances are that you made up your mind about smoking a long time ago --- and decided it’s not for you.

The chances are equally good that you know a lot of smokers -- there are, after all about 60 million of them, work with them, and get along with them very well.

And finally it’s a pretty safe bet that you’re open-minded and interested in all the various issues about smokers and nonsmokers -- or you wouldn’t be reading this.

And those three things make you incredibly important today.

Because they mean that yours is the voice -- not the smoker’s and not the anti-smoker’s --that will determine how much of society’s efforts should go into building walls that separate us and how much into the search for solutions that bring us together.

For one tragic result of the emphasis on building walls is the diversion of millions of dollars from scientific research on the causes and cures of diseases which, when all is said and done, still strike the nonsmoker as well as the smoker. One prominent health organization, to cite but a single instance, now spends 28 cents of every publicly contributed dollar on “education” (much of it in anti-smoking propaganda) and only 2 cents on research.

There will always be some who want to build walls, who want to separate people from people, and up to a point, even these may serve society. The anti-smoking wall-builders have, to give them their due, helped to make us all more keenly aware of choice.

But our guess, and certainly our hope, is that you are among the far greatest number who know that walls are only temporary at best, and that over the long run, we can serve society’s interest better by working together in mutual accommodation.

Whatever virtue walls may have, they can never move our society toward fundamental solutions. People who work together on common problems, common solutions, can.

1. What does the word “wall” used in the passage mean?
A. Anti-smoking propaganda.
B. Diseases striking nonsmokers as well as smokers.
C. Rules and regulations that prohibit smoking.
D. Separation of smokers from nonsmokers.

2. In paragraph 4, “you” refers to
A. smokers.
B. nonsmokers.
C. anti-smokers.
D. smokers who have quitted smoking.

3. It is evident that the author is not in favor of ______.
A. building a wall between smokers and nonsmokers.
B. doing scientific research at the expense of one’s health.
C. bringing smokers and nonsmokers together.
D. proving accommodation for smokers.

4. As is suggested, the common solution to the common problem is ______.
A. to separate people from people.
B. to work together in mutual accommodation.
C. to make us more keenly aware of choice.
D. to serve society’s interests better.

5. According to the passage, the writer looks upon the anti-smoking wall-builders’ actions ______.
A. optimistically.
B. pessimistically.
C. unconcernedly.
D. skeptically.

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1．D．問題問“文章中的墻指代什么？”。利用wall這個線索詞在文章中發現了位于第5段中答案相關句--- “。。把我們（和吸煙者）分開的墻..。家族詞的出現也是確認答案的線索：該題中separate在原文中 ---- separation在備選答案中。

2．D．問題問“第4段中you 指代什么？”。You從第1段就開始出現，所以應指第1段中所說的“已經放棄吸煙的吸煙者”。

3．A．該題問“很明顯作者不主張什么？”。文章的最后一段說“無論什么樣的道德墻都未曾，也不能推動我們的社會去解決基本的問題。”，可見作者很反對wall的建立。而只有A提到了wall，所以選擇A。

4．B． 該題問“正如在文章中所表明的那樣，普通問題的普通解決的方法應該是..”。在第8段中可以找到答案。

5．D．該題問“作者對建立吸煙隔離墻的行為的態度是什么？”。D “懷疑的”最合適。