2015职称英语综合类B级完形填空提升练习题(2)

　　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. 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 outweights 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 form it.

　　Jamrozik said the 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. Which 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.

　　1.A. passiveB. naturalC. extensiveD. whole

　　2.A. killsB. hurtsC. woundsD. injures

　　3.A. dealingB. workingC. smokingD. shopping

　　4.A. rateB. motionC. systemD. disease

　　5.A. levelB. industryC. locationD. nature

　　6.A. closeB. withC. forD. next

　　7.A. researchersB. patientC. membersD. smokers

　　8.A. appliedB. basedC. calledD. relied

　　9.A. learningB. turningC. dyingD. suffering

　　10.A. noB. mostC. fewD. some

　　11.A. smallB. largerC. lesserD. more

　　12.A. privateB. secretC. openD. public

　　13.A. seriouslyB. strangelyC. nervouslyD. personally

　　14.A. yetB. stillC. alsoD. just

　　15.A. sportsB. placesC. movesD. actions

答案　AACDB BABDB CDACB