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5. 10.SECTION C. READING COMPREHENSIONPart 1 (15 points). Read the passage below and decide which answer (from A, B, C or D) best fits each gap. Write your answers in ‘Your answers’ part.SMOKINGSmoking is harmful to health. This is known to many people worldwide. But men and women whobegan to smoke some thirty years ago or so did not have much research on how smoking can (1)______the body and threaten health. It was known that smoking could (2)______ the teeth and fingers, dull theappetite, and be a very expensive (3)______ to maintain. But people who began to smoke did not knowthat smoking, (4)______ cigarette smoking, could be extremely (5)______ to their health. Medical studies have shown that smoking is a great health hazard because of its effects on thebody. These studies show that the (6)______ life expectancy of a smoker is three to four years less than(7)______ of a nonsmoker. The life expectancy of a person who smokes two or more (8)______ ofcigarettes a day may be as much as eight years (9)______ than that of a nonsmoker. In addition, researchhas shown that people who smoke are more (10)______ to develop lung cancer and other serious diseasesthan nonsmokers. (11)______ warnings that cigarettes are a health hazard, smoking gains (12)______ among youth.Frequently, young people tend to ignore the warnings about smoking because they plan to stop in fiveyears or so. “I can always (13)______ before real damage is done” is the reason they give. But recentexperiments prove that damage (14)______ the lungs becomes measurable almost (15)______ a personstarts to smoke.