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Going, Going, Gone!
The Haynes Middle School Parent-Teacher Organization invites you to attend our latest fund-raiser.
The Fourth Annual Haynes School Auction (拍卖)!
Saturday, May 10
6:00 p.m. — 11:00 p.m.
in the school hall
6:00 p.m. — 6:30 p.m.: All items for auction are previewed.
6:30 p.m. — 7:00 p.m.: Silent auction begins.
7:00 p.m. — 7:30 p.m.: Highest bidders(出价人) from silent auction are determined.
7:30 p.m. — 11:00 p.m.: Main auction begins.
Items up for bid in the silent auction range in value from $5 to $30.
Items up for bid in the main auction include the following:
Airline tickets to a place of your choice
Weekend getaways at first-class hotels
Season tickets to the Chicago Bears football game
$50 gift tickets to local gift shops, restaurants, and salons
Theater tickets to The Merchant of Venice

A. Tickets for the event will be sold out in less than one week.
B. All items up for bid will be sold for at least twice their value.
C. More money will be raised this year than in any other year before.
D. The airline tickets will receive higher bids than any other item.

[单项选择]I began to smoke when I was in high school. My parents didn’t care much. They both smoked, and my older brother did, too. In school, the teachers talked against smoking, but the cigarette advertisements were so exciting. The men in the ads were so good-looking and so successful, and the women were well, they were beautiful and sophisticated.
I read a book called how to stop smoking. The writer said that smoking wastes time, and that cigarettes cost a lot of money. Ten years later, everyone began to hear about the negative effects of cigarette smoke: lung disease, cancer, and heart problems. After that, there was a health warning on every pack of cigarettes.
Then two events made me think of giving up smoking. First, I started to cough. I thought it was just a cold, but it didn’t get better. Second, my brother got lung cancer. He got sicker and sicker. My brother and I used to smoke cigarettes together over twenty years age, and we smoked our last cigarettes together the day be
A. reading a book about how to stop smoking
B. joining the "Stop Smoking" program
C. making up his mind to quit smoking
D. buying some medicines for quitting smoking