1By the late forties and early fifties no one rolled his own tobacco in cigarettes anymore (and few women smoked) in my hometown. 2The tobacco industry, coupled with Hollywood movies in which both male and female heroes smoked like chimneys, completely won over people like my father, who were hopelessly hooked by cigarettes. 3I do not remember when he started to cough. 4Perhaps it was unnoticeable at first, a little coughing in the morning as he lit his first cigarette upon getting out of bed. 5By the time I was 16, my daughter’s age, his breath was a wheeze(喘息声), embarrassing to hear. 6It was not unusual for him to cough for an hour. 7My father died from “the poor man’s friend”, pneumonia, one hard winter when his lung illnesses had left him low. 8I doubt he had much lung left at all, after coughing for so many years. 9He had so little breath that, during his last years, he was always leaning on something. 10When I travel to Third World countries I see many people like my father and daughter. 11In these poor countries, money that should be spent for food goes instead to the tobacco companies; over time, people starve themselves of both food and air, ually killing themselves. 12I read in the newspaper that the ends of cigarettes are so poisonous that if a baby swallows one, it is likely to die, and that the boiled water from a bunch of them makes an effective insecticide(杀虫剂). 13There is a deep hurt that I feel as a mother. 14Some days it is a feeling of uselessness. 15I remember how carefully I ate when I was pregnant(怀孕的), how patiently I taught my daughter how to cross a street safely. 16For what, I sometimes wonder, so that she can struggle to breathe through most of her life feeling half her strength, and then die of self-poisoning, as her grandfather did? 2. Which of the following sentences contains a metaphor?