Choose the best answer. The stop-smoking ship

THE STOP-SMOKING SHIP

READING COMPREHENSION

ALL THE PRESENT TENSES

1. Open the brackets using the Present Simple, Present Progressive, Present Perfect, or Present Perfect Progressive.

1. Look. Can you see Simon over there? – He (sit) in the corner. – Yes, he (wait) for Jack. He (sit) there since two o’clock.

2. I (learn) Spanish since last year.

3. How many driving lessons you (have) lately?

4. They (repair) the road all this week, but they (not/finish) it yet.

5. You are out of breath. You (run)?

6. Don’t rush me. I (work) as fast as I can.

7. It (get) harder and harder to find time.

8. He always (argue) and (fight)!

9. You never (know) how he is going to react.

10. What you (do)? – I’m a doctor.

1. Read the text carefully.

The most difficult thing in the world for someone to do when he is trying to give up smoking is to refuse a cigarette when a friend offers one. While people who smoke are near, the temptation to do the same is too strong. But how can someone who desperately wants to give up smoking get away from all his friends and their cigarettes?

An American doctor thinks he has found the answer at least to part of the question: sit on a ship in the middle of the Atlantic! On the ‘stop-smoking ship’ which left New York on the 21^st November for a two-week cruise, there isn’t a tobacco shop in sight; there are no cigarette machines and all the passengers have only one idea – to give up smoking.

The cost alone would frighten some people into never wanting to see a cigarette again. The passengers pay $25 a day each for the pleasure of being shut up with one another’s bad temper. But giving up tobacco for good is not easy for those poor travelers who are not very strong-minded. One man even tried to smuggle a suitcase full of cigarettes onto the ship, hoping to get back some of his $25 a day in black market prices. Fortunately he was caught before he could infect the more weak-minded passengers.

Two weeks might not seem a long time for a holiday cruise but it must seem a lifetime to a smoker with nothing to smoke. However, how many of those brave passengers have now given up smoking permanently, is a big question.

1. What is so very difficult for a person who wants to stop smoking?

a) To accept a cigarette.

b) Not to accept a cigarette.

c) To offer a cigarette.

d) Not to offer a cigarette.

2. What is too strong in the sentence ‘While people who smoke are near, the temptation to do the same is too strong’?

a) a friend’s cigarette

b) the desire to smoke too

c) the smell of the tobacco

d) the smoking people near you

3. What kind of ship is meant in the title of the story?

a) A ship for people who don’t want to give up smoking.

b) A ship for people who have never smoked.

c) A ship for people who have stopped smoking.

d) A ship for people who want to give up smoking.

4. What did one man who tried to ‘smuggle’ a suitcase full of cigarettes onto the ship want to do? ’

a) to steal a suitcase full of cigarettes from the ship

b) to bring a suitcase full of cigarettes onto the ship secretly

c) to order a suitcase full of cigarettes

5. What makes the doctor think that being on the ship may help?

a) A cruise makes people forget about smoking.

b) All the passengers have the same intention.

c) The passengers will have no money left for cigarettes.

d) There are not enough tobacco shops on the ship.

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