共用题干 Creating a World without SmokingSmoking will be banned in all pubs,clubs and workplaces from next year after historic votes in the Commons last night.Afler last-minute appeals from health campaigners,MPs opted for a blanket prohibition which will startin summer 2007,ending months of argument over whether smokers should be barred in pubs and restaurants only.They voted to ban smoking in all pubs and clubs by 384 to 184,a surprisingly large majority of 200.Smoking will still be allowed in the home and in places considered to be homes,such as prisons,care homes and hotels.Smokers lighting up in banned areas will face a fixed penalty notice of ￡50 and spot fines of ￡ 200 will be introduced for failing to display no-smoking signs,with the possible penalty,if the issue goes to court,increasing to ￡1,000.Carpline Flint,the Public Health Minister,also announced that the fine for failing to stop people smoking in banned areas would be increased to￡2,500 more than ten times the￡200 originally proposed.The Bill also allows the Government to increase the age for buying cigarettes.Ministers will consult on raising it from 16 to 18.The Bill now goes to the Lords but will be through by the summer recess.Even a plan to allow smoking to continue in private clubs was thrown out as MPs on all sides were given permission to vote with their conscience rather than on a party line.Patricia Hewitt,the Health Secretary,said the Health Bill would ban smoking in"virtually every enclosed public place and workplace"in England and save thousands of lives a year. Smoke-free workplaces and public places"will become the norm".She said:"An additional 600,000 people will give up smoking as a result of this law and millions more will be protected from second-hand smoke."Peter Hollins,director-general of the British Heart Foundation,said:"The vote is a landmark victory for the public health of this country and will save the lives of many people."

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共用题干 Migrant (移民的)WorkersIn the past twenty years,there has been an increasing tendency for workers to move from one country to another. While some countries have restricted most_________(1)to local people,others have attracted and welcomed migrant workers.This is particularly the case in the Middle East,__________(2)increased oil incomes have enabled many countries to call in outsiders to improve local facilities.Thus the Middle East has attracted oil-workers________(3)the U. S. A. and Europe.It has brought in workers from many countries,________(4)South Korea and Japan.In view of the difficult living and working________(5)in the Middle East,it is not surprising that the pay is high to attract suitable workers.Many engineers and technicians can__________(6)at least twice as much money in the Middle East as they can in their own country,and this is a major_______(7).Sometimes a disadvantage has a compensating（补偿的）advantage. For example, the________(8)living conditions often lead to increased friendship when workers have to_________(9)on each other for safety and comfort.In a similar way,many migrant workers can save large sums of money partly because of the________(10)of entertainment facilities.The work is often complex and full of problems but this merely _________(11)greater challenge to engineers who prefer to find solutions to problems rather than do routine work in their home country.One major problem which_________(12)migrant workers in the Middle East is that their jobs are temporary ones.They are nearly always on_______(13),so it is noteasy for them to plan ahead with great confidence.This is to be__________(14)since no country welcomes a large number of foreign workers as permanent residents.In any _________(15),migrant workers accept this disadvantage,along with others,because of the considerable financial benefits which they receive.

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