Is Smoking Good

for Us?
Before we are going to smoke, it is better to look at the facts.
About 50 thousand people die every year in Britain as a direct result of
smoking. This is seven times the number of deaths caused by road
accidents. Nearly a quarter of smokers die because of diseases caused
by smoking.
About ninety percent of lung cancer are caused by smoking. If we
smoke five cigarettes a day, we are six times more likely to die of lung
cancer than a non smoker. If we smoke twenty cigarettes a day, the
risk is nineteen times greater. Ninety five percent of people who suffer
of bronchitis are people who are smoking. Smokers are two and a half
times more likely to die of heart disease than non smokers.
Additionally, children of smokers are more likely to develop
bronchitis and pneumonia. One hour in a room full of cigarette smoke,
a non smoker breathes as much as substance causing cancer as if he
had smoked fifteen cigarettes.
Smoking is really good for tobacco companies because they do
make much money from smoking habits. Smoking, however, is not
good for everybody else.

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1. What is the genre of the text above?

a.
b.
c.
d.
e.

Analytical Exposition
Hortatory
Description
Argumentation
Discussion

2. What is the generic structure of the text?

a.
b.
c.
d.
e.

ThesisThesisThesisThesisThesis-

Statements- Orientation- Reiteration

Arguments- Recommendation
Arguments- Evaluation- Conclusion
Statements- Elaboration- Reiteration
Arguments- Elaboration- Reiteration

3. Which statement is true based on the text?

a.
b.
c.
d.
e.

Everyone who is smoking always suffer of bronchitis

Everyone who suffers of bronchitis is always smoking
Most people suffer of bronchitis because they are smoking
Most people are smoking because they suffer of bronchitis
None suffers bronchitis because of smoking

4. Which paragraph tells us about the comparison between smokers

a.
b.
c.
d.
e.

and non-smokers?
1
2
3
1&3
1&2

5. Based on the text, what will happen if you are a smoker? Except

a.
b.
c.
d.
e.

We will die of heart disease at the time we start smoking

Suffering from pneumonia
Our family may suffer from bronchitis too
Getting lung cancer
Our wife will get lung cancer

6. Which paragraph(s) become(s) the argument from the text?

a.
b.
c.
d.
e.

1
1
2
2
2

&
&
&
&

2
3
4
3

7. Which word has the same meaning with Additionally (paragraph 3,

line 1)?

a.
b.
c.
d.
e.

For Addition
To Addition
In Addition
At addition
On Addition

8. These diseases are likely caused by smoking habits, except..

a.
b.
c.
d.
e.

Cancer
Bronchitis
Heart attack
Influenza
Pneumonia

9. Smoking habits get benefits to some people. For example..

a.
b.
c.
d.
e.

Tobacco companies
Consumers
Old people
Children
Pregnant women

Equal to how much cigarette smoke does a non smoker

breathes when inside a room full of cigarette smoke in an hour?
a. Smoke of 8 cigarettes
b. Smoke of 10 cigarettes
c. Smoke of 15 cigarettes
d. Smoke of 5 cigarettes
e. Smoke of 20 cigarettes

10.

Answers

1. a
2. e
3. c
4. b
5. a
6. d
7. c
8. d
9. a
10. c
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