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The diseases connected to smoking are a big problem. Doctors think that the annual medical cost for lung
cancer, heart disease, and other illnesses connected to smoking is between 12 and 35 million pounds
And smoking costs society money in other ways. Between 27 and 61 billion pounds are spent each year
on sick days when people don't go to work, on wages that you don't get when you don't go to work, and
on work lost at the company when you are sick.
This money counts the wages from people who die of cancer at young age and stop paying taxes. This
doesn't count fire started by cigarettes, which kill fifteen hundred people yearly and injure another four
thousand. Smoking costs every man, woman and child in the UK from one hundred and ten to two
hundred and fifty pounds each year in the lost work and wages. When you add another fifty to one
hundred and fifty pounds yearly in insurance cost, that comes to one hundred and sixty to four hundred
and ten pounds. If everyone stopped smoking, a family of four could have up to one thousand six hundred
and forty pounds a year more.
Smoking will also cause other problems. People who don't smoke will live longer, and so they will take
money from the government when they are old. But they will also work for more years and pay more
taxes.
In the end, the value of a non-smoking nation is not in pounds. The good health of the people is the true
value of us alls
Question 1. If everyone stopped smoking, all the United Kingdom .
A. would have more money B. would live longer
C. would have less money D. would have no more problems
Question 2. Every year companies lose because of the diseases connected to smoking.
A. money B. work C. wages D. time
Question 3. If everyone stopped smoking, a family of four could have more each year.
A. from 110 pounds to 260 pounds B. from 1,340 to 1.430 pounds
C. from 160 pounds to 410 pounds D. 1.640 pounds
Question 4. The true value for the UK of not smoking is .
A. more working B. more taxes C. good health D. more money
Question 5. This text is about .
A. taxes which are not paid by smokers
B. diseases that smokers get
C. how much smoking costs in UK
D. how much the UK get if everyone stopped smoking
ĐÁP ÁN
1-A 2-A 3-D 4-C 5-C

LỜI GIẢI CHI TIẾT

Question 1:
would have more money

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Thông tin ở đoạn 3:” Smoking costs every man, woman and child in the UK from one hundred and ten to
two hundred and fifty pounds each year in the lost work and wages. When you add another fifty to one
hundred and fifty pounds yearly in insurance cost, that comes to one hundred and sixty to four hundred
and ten pounds. If everyone stopped smoking, a family of four could have up to one thousand six hundred
and forty pounds a year more.”
(Hút thuốc lá tiêu tốn tiền bạc của tất cả đàn ông, phụ nữ và trẻ nhỏ tại Vương quốc Anh từ 110 đến 250
bảng mỗi năm vì mất việc và lương. Khi bạn them 50 đến 150 bảng nữa hang năm vào chi phí bảo hiểm
lên đến từ 160 đến 410 bảng. Nếu mỗi người dừng hút thuốc, một gia đình gồm 4 người đã có thể có đến
them 1640 bảng một năm.)
Question 2:
Thông tin ở đoạn 2: “Between 27 and 61 billion pounds are spent each year on sick days when people
don't go to work, on wages that you don't get when you don't go to work, and on work lost at the company
when you are sick.”
(27 đến 61 tỉ bảng đã được chi hàng năm cho những ngày đau ốm khi mọi người không đi làm, cho các
khoản lương mà bạn không kiếm được khi bạn không đi làm và cho công việc bị mất ở công ty khi bạn
ốm.)
Question 3:
1.640 pounds
Thông tin ở đoạn 3:" If everyone stopped smoking, a family of four could have up to one thousand six
hundred and forty pounds a year more.” (Nếu mỗi người dừng hút thuốc, một gia đình gồm 4 người đã có
thể có đến thêm 1640 bảng một năm.)
Question 4:
good health
Thông tin ở đoạn cuối:” In the end, the value of a non-smoking nation is not in pounds. The good health
of the people is the true value of us alls.” (Cuối cùng, giá trị của một quốc gia không hút thuốc lá không
nằm ở số bảng. Sức khỏe tốt của những người dân chính là giá trị đích thực của tất cả chúng ta.)
Question 5:
how much smoking costs in UK. Nội dung chính của bài nói về những cái giá của việc hút thuốc lá tại
Anh.

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