单选题 Passive Smoking Is Workplace Killer
Pressure mounted on Britain on Monday to take action on (51) smoking with new research showing second - hand smoke (52) about one worker each week in the hospitality industry (服务行业).
Professor Knorad Jamrozik, of Imperial (帝国的) College in London, told a conference on environmental tobacco that second – hand (53) kills 49 employees in pubs, bars, restaurants and hotels each year and contributes to 700 deaths from lung cancer, heart (54) and stroke across the total national work force.
"Exposure in the hospitality (55) at work outweighs (超过) the consequences of exposure of living (56) a smoker for those staff," Jamrozik said in an interview.
Other (57) have measured the levels of exposure to passive smoking but Jamrozik calculated how it would translate into avoidable deaths.
His findings are (58) on the number of people working in the hospitality industry in Britain, their exposure to second - hand smoke and their (59) of dying from it.
Jamrozik said the findings would apply to (60) countries in Europe because, to a greater or (61) 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 (62) places.
"Environmental tobacco smoke in pubs, bars, restaurants and other public places is (63) 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 (易受伤害的) staff and the public, it will (64) 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 (65) . New York and parts of Australia have taken similar measures.

单选题 A. passive B. natural C. extensive D. whole
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】从短文题目中的passive smoking和接下来的second-hand smoke等词语中不难看出,此处应选passive一词。
单选题 A. kills B. hurts C. wounds D. injures
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】从短文题目中的workplace killer可以断定,此处应选kills一词。
单选题 A. dealing B. working C. smoking D. shopping
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】前面已经提到过“二手烟,”因此,此处显然应选“吸烟”。
单选题 A. rate B. motion C. system D. disease
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】从之前的“七百人死于癌症”和之后的“中风”可以看出,此处要表达的是心脏病。
单选题 A. level B. industry C. location D. nature
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】短文的第一段中已经出现过“服务行业”这一词语,因此,此处也就不难做出选择。
单选题 A. close B. with C. for D. next
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】此处要表达的意思应该是与吸烟者生活在一起,因此只能选with。
单选题 A. researchers B. patients C. members D. smokers
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】Jamrozik是名研究员,因此这里要说的是其他研究人员。
单选题 A. applied B. based C. called D. hoped
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】此处要表达的意思是:他的研究结果是基于……得出的。
单选题 A. habits B. places C. ideas D. chances
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】显然,此处要表示的是死于二手烟的危险。
单选题 A. no B. most C. few D. much
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】句子接下来提到,欧洲的吸烟状况与美国的吸烟状况基本上差不多,因此,此处应选“大多数”一词。
单选题 A. small B. larger C. lesser D. more
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】to a greater or lesser extent是固定用法。
单选题 A. private B. secret C. open D. public
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】前面一直在谈服务行业雇员遭受吸烟危害的情况,因此,此处要表达的意思是公共场所。
单选题 A. seriously B. strangely C. nervously D. personally
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】从短文前面的内容可以得知,在公共场所吸烟对服务行业雇员的身体健康造成很大危害,因此,此处应选一个表示“危害”程度的副词。
单选题 A. yet B. still C. Also D. just
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】从句子前面的not only便可以推断,此处应选also。
单选题 A. sports B. places C. moves D. actions
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】短文前面已经多次提到“公共场所”一词,因此,此处的选择也就不难了。