[originaltext]W: So Tim, I must congratulate you. I hear you no longer smoke.M

W: So Tim, I must congratulate you. I hear you no longer smoke.
M: That’s true.(1)I stopped smoking six months ago.
W: Good man. How did you do it?
M: (2)I went to a music party, and I smoked and drank as much as I wanted for about 12 hours. I finally left at 9 in the morning on New Year’s Day, my lungs felt dry and then I decided I’m never going to do mis and stopped.
W: Wow, I mean, you must have had, you know, addictions—you must have wanted to have a cigarette a couple of days later.
M: (3)You know, I’ve stopped smoking several times and had very bad cravings before, and this time it also was. A couple of times I felt like I might like one, but no, I didn’t have any nicotine. I was ready this time I think.
W: So you just think your body reaches a point where you can take no more.
M: Yeah definitely, and your mind reaches a point where you’re sickened by your own disgusting behavior.
W: Right, so what do you think about smoking now?
M: (4)I hate it. To tell you the truth, I’m totally anti-smoking, and I used to be very liberal about people’s rights to smoke but now I think it should be completely banned. It should be illegal to buy tobacco.
W: Wow, they should just make it illegal.
M: Make it illegal. It kills people.
W: So what is your message to a smoker? If someone out there is smoking today, he’s a smoker, and he wants to quit, what’s your message to him?
M: I’m reading a really cool book at the moment about therapy, and in one of these stories in this book one guy says, imagine you have a pet dog, and you love this pet dog, and the pet dog is your body, now would you give poisoned, say, you went to the pet store and you saw these cans of dog food with a poison mark on them, poisoned flavored dog food containing poison, would you buy that poisonous dog food and feed it to your dog? No, you wouldn’t.(5)That’s exactly what you’re doing to your body when you smoke. You’re deliberately poisoning yourself , so stop it.
W: Well, that’s really new and interesting. Hope it will be a good warning to all of the smokers.
M: Well, good message and so for all of you people out there who are smoking, STOP!
W: Thanks a lot for sharing that with me.
1. What do we know about the man?
2. What do we know about the music party the man joined?
3. How did the man do with the cravings for smoking this time?
4. What is the man’s attitude towards smoking now?
5. Why does the man tell the story about the pet dog?