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PAGE  PAGE 5 Unit 5-Text A-1 By the late forties and early fifties no one rolled his own cigarettes anymore (and few women smoked) in my hometown of Eatonton, Georgia. The tobacco industry, ___1___ with Hollywood movies in which both male and female heroes smoked like chimneys, completely won over people like my father, who were hopelessly ___2___ by cigarettes. He never looked as ___3___ as Prince Albert, though; he continued to look like a poor, overweight, hard-working colored man with too large a family, black, with a very white cigarette stuck in his mouth. I do not remember when he started to cough. Perhaps it was ___4___ at first, a little coughing in the morning as he ___5___ his first cigarette upon getting out of bed. By the time I was sixteen, my daughters age, his breath was a wheeze, embarrassing to hear; he could not climb stairs without resting every third or fourth step. It was not ___6___ for him to cough for an hour. My father died from the poor mans friend, pneumonia, one hard winter when his lung illnesses had left him low. I ___7___ he had much lung left at all, after coughing for so many years. He had so little breath that, during his last years, he was always leaning on something. I remembered once, at a family union, when my daughter was two, that my father picked her up for a minute—long enough for me to ___8___ them—but the effort was obvious. Near the very end of his life, and ___9___ because he had no more lungs, he quit smoking. He gained a couple of pounds, but by then he was so __10___ that no one noticed. (Keys: 1. coupled 2. hooked 3. fashionable 4. unnoticeable 5. lit 6. unusual 7.doubt 8. photograph 9. largely 10. slim) Unit 5-Text A-2 When I travel to Third World countries I see many people like my father and daughter. There are large ___1___ signs directed at them both: the tough, confident or fashionable older man, the beautiful, worldly young woman, both ___2___ away. In these poor countries, as i