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A.non-smokingB.no-smokingC.anti-smokingD.against smoking

A. non-smoking
B. no-smoking
C. anti-smoking
D. against smoking

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A.in spite ofB.rather thanC.because ofD.without

A. in spite of
B. rather than
C. because of
D. without

In all this, the point of view of the non-smokers has to be 【10】as well: "3 wish smoker would stop 【11】the air. I wish I could eat in a restaurant 【12】having to smell cigarettes smoke." It has been 【13】that, in a room where a large number of people are smoking, a non-smoker will breathe in the 【14】of two or three cigarettes during an evening. 【15】, non-smokers are now majority in many western countries. More and more people are giving up the habit, discouraged by high prices, influenced by 【16】advertising or just aware that smoking is no longer really a polite thing to do.
Faced with lower sales, the western tobacco companies have begun to look outside their own countries. They have begun advertising 【17】to persuade young people in developing countries that smoking American or British or French cigarette is a sophisticated western habit, which they should copy. As a result, more and more young people are spending 【18】money they have on a product which the west recognizes 【19】unhealthy and no longer wants. The high number of young smokers in India, in South America and in South East Asia will become some of tomorrow's 【20】.
(1)

A. that
B. when
C. where
D. since

A.In the place ofB.In place ofC.BesidesD.Except

A. In the place of
B. In place of
C. Besides
D. Except

Learning for Its Own Sake
For me, scientific knowledge is divided into mathematical sciences, natural sciences or sciences dealing with the natural world (physical and biological sciences), and sciences dealing with mankind (psychology, sociology, all the sciences of cultural achievements, every kind of historical knowledge). Apart from these sciences is philosophy, about which we will take shortly. In the first place, all this is pure or theoretical knowledge, sought only for the purpose of understanding, in order to fulfill the need to understand that is intrinsic and consubstantial to man. What distinguishes man from animal is that he knows and needs to know. If man did not know that the world existed, and that the world was of a certain kind, that he was in the world and that he himself was of a certain kind, he wouldn't be a man. The technical aspects of applications of knowledge are equally necessary for man and are of the greatest importance, because they also contribute to defining him as man and permit him to pursue a life increasingly more truly human.
But even while enjoying the results of technical and the results of technical progress, he must defend the primacy and autonomy of pure knowledge. Knowledge sought directly for its practical applications will have immediate and foreseeable success, but not the kind of important result whose revolutionary scope is in large part unforeseen', except by the imagination of the Utopians. Let me recall a well - known example. If the Greek mathematicians had not applied themselves to the investigation of conic sections, zealously and without the least suspicion that it might someday be useful, it would not have been possible centuries later to navigate far from shore. The first men to study the nature of electricity could not imagine that their experiments, carried on because of mere intellectual curiosity, would eventually lead to modern electrical technology, without which we can scarcely conceive of contemporary life. Pure knowledge is valuable for its own sake, because the human spirit cannot resign itself to ignorance. But, in addition, it is the foundation for practical results that would not have been reached if this knowledge had not been sought disinterestedly.
The author points out that the Greeks who studied conic sections ______.

A. invented modern mathematical applications
B. were interested in navigation
C. were unaware of the value of their studies
D. worked with electricity

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