Read the following text carefully:

Is tobacco an addictive product? Yes, indeed!

What does smoking a cigarette have in common with snorting
cocaine? Not a great deal, or so most people like to believe. In
fact, for weeks Bob Dole has been playing into the conventional
wisdom - and the hands of his supporters in the tobacco
industry - by saying on presidential campaign across the US
that though nicotine may be habit forming, that doesnt
necessarily make it an addictive. Scientists, however, say
otherwise. And last week, in an article published by the journal Nature, a team of Italian researchers
provided perhaps the most compelling reason yet to classify nicotine as an addictive drug.
The research was done on rats that had been injected intravenously with a small dose of nicotine,
about as much as a smoker receives from a single drag on a cigarette. The team, led by Gaetano di
Chiara, a neuroscientist at the University of Cagliari, then monitored the biochemical changes that
occurred in the nucleous accumbens, an area of the brain that appears to control the process of
addiction.
What the researchers found was striking. Levels of a powerful brain chemical called dopamine
dramatically increased in the outermost shell of the nucleus accumbens, a region that is richly
endowed with connections to one of the brains most important emotional centres, an ancient
structure known as the amygdale.
Why is this important? A virtually identical pattern of biochemical activity, Di Chiaras group had
earlier established, accompanies injections of cocaine, amphetamine and morphine. The brain, in
other words, appears to make no distinction between addictive drugs and what smokers prefer to
think as just a bad habit.
Time International,
July 29, 1996
Choose the correct option:
1.
Most people believe tobacco
A) has everything to do with cocaine.
B) has nothing to do with cocaine.
C) is a great deal.
D) is not a great deal.
2.
Scientists and Bob Dole
A) agree with each other when talking about tobacco.
B) dont agree with each other when talking about tobacco.
C) have never talked about a common subject.
D) dont know what to talk about.
3.
Last week nicotine was considered ......... drug.
A) an addictive
B) a non-addictive
C) a healthy
D) a relaxing
4.
In order to know how our body reacts to this product
A) researches were done on rats.
B) neuroscientists have smoked twenty cigarettes one after another.
C) scientists have observed several smokers.

D) scientists tried to control the process of addiction.

5.
The conclusion is that
A) there is actually a difference between tobacco and cocaine.
B) smoking doesn't affect our health.
C) there is no reaction from our body to this product.
D) our brain doesn't distinguish addictive and non-addictive drugs.
6.
His (3rd sentence in the 1st paragraph) refers to
A) wisdom.
B) Bob Doles.
C) tobacco industry.
D) hands.
7.
It (1st paragraph, red) refers to
A) habit.
B) nicotine.
C) tobacco.
D) campaign.
8.
When we smoke we are killing
A) ourselfes.
B) ourselves.
C) we.
D) us.
9.
When I gave up smoking I bought ......... a brand-new car.
A) me
B) myselve
C) myself
D) my
10.
When people are alone, they often talk to
A) themselves.
B) themselfes.
C) they.
D) them.
11.
I would like to know more about
A) yourselfes.
B) yours.
C) your.
D) yourself.
12.
I want to see
A) her.
B) hers.
C) she.
D) their.
13.
I want the letter. Please give ......... to ....... .
A) it/my
B) her/me
C) it/me
D) her/my
14.
Kate is married, but I dont know ......... husband.

A) his
B) hers
C) he
D) her
15.
We are going to invite all ......... friends to the party.
A) our
B) we
C) us
D) them
16.
They usually have ......... breakfast at eight.
A) the
B) a
C) an
D) ----17.
.......... ocean between Europe and America is the Atlantic ocean.
A) An
B) A
C) ----D) The
18.
Lucy likes playing ......... piano.
A) the
B) an
C) a
D) ----19.
They left ......... hour ago.
A) the
B) a
C) an
D) ----20.
Portugal is ......... European country.
A) the
B) a
C) an
D) ----Write about 80 words on the given topics:
1 Where and why do you think most teenagers start smoking?
2 Are you aware of how great the risks from smoking are?