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Common Problems, Common Solutions The chances are that you made up your mind about smoking a long time ago—and decided it’s

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问题                     Common Problems, Common Solutions
    The chances are that you made up your mind about smoking a long time ago—and decided it’s not for you.
    The chances are equally good that you know a lot of smokers—there are, after all about 60 million of them, work with them, play with them, and get along with them very well.
    And finally it’s a pretty safe bet that you’re open-minded and interested in all the various issues about smokers and nonsmokers—or you wouldn’t be reading this.
    And those three things make you incredibly important today.
    Because they mean that yours is the voice—not the smoker’s and not the anti-smoker’s — that will determine how much of society’s efforts should go into building walls that separate us and how much into the search for solutions that bring us together.
    For one tragic result of the emphasis on building walls is the diversion of millions of dollars from scientific research on the causes and cures of diseases which, when all is said and done, still strike the nonsmoker as well as the smoker. One prominent health organization, to cite but a single instance, now spends 28 cents of every publicly-contributed dollar on "education" (much of it in anti-smoking propaganda) and only 2 cents on research.
    There will always be some who want to build walls, who want to separate people from people, and up to a point, even these may serve society. The anti-smoking wall-builders have, to give them their due, helped to make us all more keenly-aware of choice.
    But our guess, and certainly our hope, is that you are among the far greater number who know that walls are only temporary at best, and that over the long run, we can serve society’s interests better by working together in mutual accommodation.
    Whatever virtue walls may have, they can never move our society toward fundamental solutions. People who work together on common problems, common solutions, can.
It is evident that the author is not in favor of______.
选项 A、building a wall between smokers and nonsmokers
B、doing scientific research at the expense of one’s health
C、bringing smokers and nonsmokers together
D、providing accommodation for smokers
答案A
解析 题干问的是：作者不赞成什么?从倒数第二段中的“相互适应”(mutual accommodation)这一举措可以看出，作者不主张在吸烟者和不吸烟者之间人为地筑一道永久墙，充其量这是一道临时墙。因此选项A为正确答案。选项B说的是：牺牲自己的健康从事科学研究。选项C说的是：使吸烟者和不吸烟者能相处(注意该题问的是作者不主张什么)。选项D说的是：为吸烟者提供住处。选项B、C和D都不是合适的选择。
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