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　　Passive smoking is workplace killer

　　Pressure mounted on Britain on Monday to take action on __1__ smoking with new research showing second-hand smoke__2__ about one worker each week in the hospitality industry.

　　Professor Konrad Jamrozik，of Imperial College in London，told a conference on environmental tobacco that second-hand__3__kills 49 employees in pubs，bars，restaurants and hotels each year and contributes to 700 deaths from lung cancer，heart__4__ and stroke across the total national work force.

　　Exposure in the hospitality__5__at work outweighs the consequences of exposure of living__6__ a smoker for those staff， Jamrozik said in an interview.

　　Other__7__have measured the levels of exposure to passive smoking but Jamrozik calculated how it would translate into avoidable deaths.

　　His findings are__8__ on the number of people working in the hospitality industry in Britain.their exposure to second.hand smoke and their__9__of dying from it.

　　Jamrozik said me findings would apply to __10__countries in Europe because, to a greater or__11__extent，levels of smoking in the community are similar.

　　Professor Carol Black，president of the Royal College of Physicians，who sponsored the meeting.said the research is proof of the need for a ban on smoking in __12__places.

　　Environmental tobacco smoke in pubs，bars，restaurants and other public places is__13__ damaging to the health of employees as well as the general public，she said in a statement.

　　Making these places smoke.free not only protects vulnerable staff and the public。It will__14__help over 300，000 people in Britain to stop smoking completely，she added.

　　Ireland recently became the first country to introduce a national ban on smoking in Public__15__ .New York and parts of Australia have taken similar measures.

　　词汇：

　　workplace/n.工作场所：车间

　　killer/n.杀人者;凶手

　　hospitality/n.友好款待;好客;殷勤

　　imperial/adj.英联邦的

　　outweigh vt.在重要性超过

　　vulnerable/adj.易受伤的;脆弱的

　　练习：

　　1. A)passive B)natural C)extensive D)whole

　　2. A)kills B)hurts C)wounds D) injures

　　3. A)dealing B)working C)smoking D)shopping

　　4. A)rate B)motion C)system D)disease

　　5. A)level B)industry C)location D)nature

　　6. A)close B)with C)for D)next

　　7. A)researchers B)patients C)members D)smokers

　　8. A)applied B)based C)called D)relied

　　9. A)learning B)turning C)dying D)suffering

　　10.A)no B)most C)few D)some

　　11.A)small B)larger C)lesser D)more

　　12.A)private B)secret C)open D)public

　　13.A)seriously B)strangely C)nervously D)personally

　　14.A)yet B)still C)also D)just

　　15.A)sports B)places C)moves D)actions

　　答案及解析：

　　1. 文章主题分析：Passive smoking is workplace killer

　　2. 直接解题：

　　1. A)passive B)natural C)extensive D)whole

　　2. A)kills B)hurts C)wounds D) injures

　　Pressure mounted on Britain on Monday to take action on __1__ smoking with new research showing second-hand smoke__2__ about one worker each week in the hospitality industry(服务产业).

　　1. A。分析：被选项中出现文章核心词Passive(smoking)，因此推测答案是A，而后文中也提到了second-hand smoke(间接的吸烟)因此判断A是答案。

　　2。A. 分析：被选项中出现与文章核心词killer相关的词kills， 而且空格的宾语是每星期一个工人，因此判断A是答案。

　　3. A)dealing B)working C)smoking D)shopping

　　4. A)rate B)motion C)system D)disease

　　Professor Konrad Jamrozik，of Imperial College in London，told a conference on environmental tobacco that second-hand__3__kills 49 employees in pubs，bars，restaurants and hotels each year and contributes to 700 deaths from lung cancer，heart__4__ and stroke across the total national work force.

　　3. C。分析：被选项中出现文章核心词smoking, 而且与该空格搭配的前面的结构是间接的，因此判断C是答案。

　　4. D。 分析：并列的内容中提到了肺癌，后面出现heart disease 心脏疾病是合乎逻辑的。 　　　　7. A)researchers B)patients C)members D)smokers

　　Other__7__have measured the levels of exposure to passive smoking but Jamrozik calculated how it would translate into avoidable deaths.

　　7.A. 分析：空格前面出现代词其他的，借助前文前面提到Jamrozik said in an interview(该结构暗示Jamrozik应该是一个研究者)因此判断A是答案。

　　8. A)applied B)based C)called　 D)relied

　　9. A)learning B)turning C)dying D)suffering

　　His findings are__8__ on the number of people working in the hospitality industry in Britain，their exposure to second-hand smoke and their__9__of dying from it.

　　8.B.分析：借助空格前后的搭配特点：be..on判断只有B和D合适，再根据搭配含义：他的发现..判断B合适。

　　9.D.分析：借助借词of和搭配含义他们..死于它(被动吸烟)判断D合适他们遭受到死于被动吸烟

　　10.A)no B)most C)few D)some

　　11.A)small B)larger C)lesser D)more

　　Jamrozik said me findings would apply to __10__countries in Europe because, to a greater or__11__extent，levels of smoking in the community are similar.

　　10.B.分析：后句中提到在社会上人们吸烟的情况是相似的，空格所在的结构说我的研究结果可以实用于..国家，因此判断B(大多数的)是答案。

　　11.分析：or引导的成分应该在结构上对等，因此首先排除A(A不是比较级)，由学习过的more or less (或多或少)联想到greater or.. 的结构中出现lesser的可能性较大。

　　12.A)private B)secret C)open　 D)public

　　Professor Carol Black，president of the Royal College of Physicians，who sponsored the meeting.said the research is proof of the need for a ban on smoking in __12__places.

　　12.D.分析：空格所在的结构说在..场合禁烟因此判断D是答案。

　　13.A)seriously B)strangely C)nervously 　D)personally

　　Environmental tobacco smoke in pubs，bars，restaurants and other public places is__13__ damaging to the health of employees as well as the general public，she said in a statement.

　　13.A. 分析：空格所在的结构说..损害员工的健康，对比被选项判断A合适。

　　14.A)yet B)still C)also D)just

　　Making these places smoke-free not only protects vulnerable staff and the public, it will__14__help over 300，000 people in Britain to stop smoking completely，she added.

　　14.C. 分析：not only..but/but also/also..是固定的搭配结构。

　　15.A)sports B)places C)moves D)actions

　　Ireland recently became the first country to introduce a national ban on smoking in Public__15__ , New York and parts of Australia have taken similar measures.

　　15.B.分析：空格所在的结构说在公共..禁止吸烟，因此判断B是答案。