Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay entitled The Habit of Smoking with reference to the picture given below. You should write at least 120 words but no more than 180 words. Write your essay on Answer Sheet 1.
【参考范文】
The Habit of Smoking
In the picture, cigarettes were put together to form a phrase "THE END", which vividly implies the habit of smoking does a great harm to people's happy life. Smoking poses a potential danger to both the smokers themselves and the non-smokers who breathe in the secondhand smoke, which is even more harmful.
China has a large smoker population. To make things worse, the people who smoke have been on the rise on a daily basis. Some people, especially youngsters, pick up smoking because they think it's cool. Meanwhile,many others regard smoking cigarettes as a way to release pressure or an important lubricant in the social relationship. The sad thing about all this is that many people, knowing smoking is a bad habit, still hold on to it.
Currently, perhaps it is not easy to ban the tobacco industry, but it is possible to enforce the no-smoking policy in all public places, making it more and more difficult and inconvenient for smokers to smoke and at the same time. ensuring peoole who do not smoke to have fresh air to breathe.
【参考译文】
吸烟的习惯
在图片中，一些香烟被拼成了一个英语短语“结束”，这生动地暗示了吸烟会严重危害人们的幸福生活。吸烟不仅对于吸烟者本身很危险，对吸二手烟的不吸烟者也是如此，而且二手烟的危害更大。中国的烟民数量十分庞大，更糟糕的是，吸烟的人数每天都在攀升。一些人（尤其是青少年）开始吸烟是因为他们觉得吸烟很酷。与此同时，还有很多人认为吸烟是一种缓解压力的方式，也是社会关系中重要的润滑剂。这一切所导致的结果就是许多人即使知道吸烟是一种不好的习惯，也仍然不肯戒烟。
目前看来，取缔整个烟草行业可能并非易事，但是我们可以执行在公共场合禁止吸烟的政策。这样，既可以使烟民吸烟更加困难和不便，又可以保证不吸烟的人能够呼吸到新鲜的空气。
【要点用法】
cigarette 香烟
lubricant 润滑剂
imply 暗示
hold on to 坚持，不放弃
do a great harm to… 严重危害……
enforce 执行
secondhand smoke 二手烟
ensure 确保
【句法点评】
1.In the picture, cigarettes were put together to form a phrase "THE END", which vividly impfies the habit of smoking does a great harm to people's happy life.
首句直入主题，介绍图画内容，被动句与非限制性定语从句相结合，句式灵活。
2.To make things worse, the people who smoke have been on the rise on a daily basis.
tomakethingsworse意为“使事情更糟糕的是……”。beonthe rise意为“在逐渐增加、上升”。on adaily basis意为“每天”，可用于替换常用表达everyday。这三个短语都是非常地道的表达方式，值得积累。
3.Tbe sad thing about all this is that many people, knowing smoking is a bad habit, still hold on to it. that引导表语从句，其中的knowing smoking is a bad habit是现在分词短语作让步状语，也是插入语。hold onto意为“坚持，不放弃”，等同于stickto.
4....but it is possible to enforce the no-smoking policy in all public places. making it more and more difficult…and at the same time. ensuring people who do not smoke…to enforce a policy为固定搭配，意为“推行某一政策”，making…和ensuring…为并列结构，均为现在分词短语作结果状语。在描述问题之后提出现实的解决方案，使文章更具深度。
