Tang Ling often smoked cigarettes（香烟）in his school's washing room. He started smoking {#blank#}1{#/blank#} the age of 14. One day he learnt that the NBA star Yao Ming, an ambassador（大使） to the Chinese Association on Tobacco Control（中国控烟协会）, asked people not {#blank#}2{#/blank#}（smoke）.Yao Ming was Tang's favorite star, {#blank#}3{#/blank#}his words meant a lot to him. He decided to give up smoking.

    According to the Chinese Association on Tobacco Control, about 350 million Chinese smoke. Among {#blank#}4{#/blank#}, 50 million are teenagers. Sun Jiangping of Beijing University said, "Teenagers can get cigarettes {#blank#}5{#/blank#}（easy）, especially when their parents smoke or shops sell cigarettes to them. It's very important {#blank#}6{#/blank#}.parents to help their children stop smoking."

    A 15-year-old boy {#blank#}7{#/blank#}（name） Li Kun from Beijing said his parents didn't smoke. Because they thought smoking could make people feel badly ill, they only allowed him to play with friends {#blank#}8{#/blank#}（with） smoking. Living in such a good family helped Li say "{#blank#}9{#/blank#}" to cigarettes. Some of his smoking classmates once told Li that smoking made boys look cool, but Li disagreed. He said, "{#blank#}10{#/blank#}（smoke） is unhealthy and it's not cool at all. Please stop smoking now!"

    One day a man {#blank#}1{#/blank#}（buy）a lot of coconuts（椰子）and put them all on his horse. He was moving{#blank#}2{#/blank#}（it）to his friends' house. {#blank#}3{#/blank#}the way, the man met a boy. “How long would it take{#blank#}4{#/blank#}（get）to the house?" he asked the boy.

    "If you go {#blank#}5{#/blank#}（slow）, "the boy said, "you will get there very soon. {#blank#}6{#/blank#} if you go fast, it will take you all day. ”

    "What a funny answer!" said the man. He did not{#blank#}7{#/blank#}（listen）to the boy. He made his horse run as fast as possible. Some coconuts fell off. He had to stop {#blank#}8{#/blank#}（pick）them up. Then he made his horse run fast again. But the coconuts fell off again, and he stopped again.

    He did this many {#blank#}9{#/blank#}（time）, and it was night when he finally got to his {#blank#}10{#/blank#}（friends）house.

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