完型填空例題解析:來源:考試大
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.
詞匯:
workplace/n.工作場所:車間來源:考試大
killer/n.殺人者;兇手來源:考試大
hospitality/n.友好款待;好客;殷勤
imperial/adj.英聯(lián)邦的來源:考試大
outweigh vt.在重要性(或價(jià)值上)超過來源:考試大
vulnerable/adj.易受傷的;脆弱的來源:考試大
練習(xí):來源:考試大
1. A)passive B)natural C)extensive D)whole來源:考試大
2. A)kills B)hurts C)wounds D) injures來源:考試大
3. A)dealing B)working C)smoking D)shopping來源:考試大
4. A)rate B)motion C)system D)disease
5. A)level B)industry C)location D)nature來源:考試大
6. A)close B)with C)for D)next來源:考試大
7. A)researchers B)patients C)members D)smokers來源:考試大
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來源:考試大
11.A)small B)larger C)lesser D)more
12.A)private B)secret C)open D)public來源:考試大
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
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.
詞匯:
workplace/n.工作場所:車間來源:考試大
killer/n.殺人者;兇手來源:考試大
hospitality/n.友好款待;好客;殷勤
imperial/adj.英聯(lián)邦的來源:考試大
outweigh vt.在重要性(或價(jià)值上)超過來源:考試大
vulnerable/adj.易受傷的;脆弱的來源:考試大
練習(xí):來源:考試大
1. A)passive B)natural C)extensive D)whole來源:考試大
2. A)kills B)hurts C)wounds D) injures來源:考試大
3. A)dealing B)working C)smoking D)shopping來源:考試大
4. A)rate B)motion C)system D)disease
5. A)level B)industry C)location D)nature來源:考試大
6. A)close B)with C)for D)next來源:考試大
7. A)researchers B)patients C)members D)smokers來源:考試大
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來源:考試大
11.A)small B)larger C)lesser D)more
12.A)private B)secret C)open D)public來源:考試大
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