PEOPLE NO LONGER SMOKE SO MANY CIGARETTES AS THEY USED TO.A. PEOPL...

40. People no longer smoke so many cigarettes as they used to.A. People don’t like smoking cigarettes as much as they did.B. Smoking cigarettes used to be allowed years ago.C. So many cigarettes used to be smoked but they aren’t now.D. The smoking of cigarettes is no longer as popular as it used to be.V. Choose the word or phrase that best fits the blank space in the following passage. People in the United States often shop from catalogs. There are special catalogs for (41)______everyneed, including clothing, furniture, health, (42)______products and things for the kitchen. People also order(43)_____ 40% of their music from music club catalogs. Customers say that music stores are too noisy.Television shopping began in 1986. About 5% to 8% of the American public now shops by television.Some (44)_____shopping channels are the Home Shopping Network and QVC. Customers say that televisionshopping is (45)________than shopping in a store. How do they buy things? They (46)_____a phone call andcharge the item to their credit card. And TV shopping channels are on late at night (47)__________people cango shopping anytime.Is computer shopping the way of the future? About 37% of American (48)____now have personalcomputers. And shopping by computer (or shopping on-line) is (49)_______to more people every day. Already,shoppers can use their computers to order many different products, such as computer products, flowers, foods,T-shirts, and posters. And new on- line shopping services (50)________every day. Soon people may be able toshop for anything, anytime, anywhere in the world.