学位英语

第六部分 ：完形填空(第51——65题，每题1分，共15分)

阅读下面的短文，文中有15处空白，每处空白给出了4个选项，请根据短文的内容从4个选项中选择1个最佳答案。

(51)根据下面材料，回答题。

Passive Smoking Is Workplace Killer

Pressure mounted on Britain on Monday to take action on ____51 ____smoking with newresearch showing second-hand smoke ____52____ about one worker each week in thehospitality industry (服务Professor Knorad Jamrozik, of Imperial (帝国的) College inLondon, told a conference on environmental tobacco that second-hand ____53____ kills 49employees in pubs, bars, restaurants and hotels each year and contributes to 700 deathsfrom lung cancer, heart____ 54____ and stroke across the total national work force.

"Exposure in the hospitality ____55____ at work outweighs (超过) the consequences ofexposure 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 Jamrozikcalculated how it would translate into avoidable deaths.

His findings are ____58____ on the number of people working in the hospitality industry in----------------------- Page 28-----------------------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 agreater or ____61____ extent, levels of smoking in the community are similar.

Professor Carol Black, president of the Royal College of Physicians, which sponsored themeeting, 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 ina statement.

"Making these places smoke-free not only protects vulnerable (易受伤害的) staff and thepublic, it will ____64____ help over 300,000 people in Britain to stop smokingcompletely," she added.

Ireland recently became the first country to introduce a national ban on smoking in public____65____. New York and pads of Australia have taken similar measures.

____________

A: passive

B: natural

C: positive

D: whole

答案:A

解析:从短文题目中的passive smoking和接下来的second.hand smoking

等词语中不难看出，此处应选passive一词。

(52) ____________

A: kills

B: hurts

C: wounds

D: injures

答案:A

解析: 从短文题目中的workplace killer可以断定，此处应选kills一词。

(53) ____________

A: dealing

B: working

C: smoking

D: shopping

答案:C

解析: 前面已经提到过“二手烟”。因此，此处选“吸烟”。

(54) ____________

A: rate

B: motion

C: system

D: disease

答案:D

解析: 从之前的“700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。

(55) ____________

A: level

B: industry

C: location

D: nature

答案:B

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。

(56) ____________

A: close

B: with

C: for

D: next

答案:B

解析: 从上下文语境来看，此处要表达的意思是与吸烟者生活在一起，因此选with。

(57) ____________

A: researchers

B: patients

C: members

D: smokers

答案:A

解析: 从上下文语境来看，Jamrozik是一名研究员，因此这里要说的是其他研究人员。

(58) ____________

A: applied

B: based

C: called

D: hoped

答案:B

解析: 这里考查的是固定短语be based

Oil(基于……，以……为基础)。从上下文语境来看，他的研究结果是基于……得出的。

(59) ____________

A: habits

B: places

C: ideas

D: chances

答案:D

解析: 从上下文语境来看，显然此处要表示的是死于二手烟的危险。

(60) ____________

A: no

B: most

C: few

D: much

答案:B

解析:

从上下文语境来看，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“绝大多数”一词。

(61) ____________

A: small

B: larger

C: lesser

D: more

答案:C

解析: 这里考查的是固定短语 ：to a greater or lesser extent(在较大或较小的程度上)。

(62) ____________

A: private

B: secret

C: open

D: public

答案:D

解析:

从上下文语境来看，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。

(63) ____________

A: seriously

B: strangely

C: nervously

D: personally

答案:A

解析:

从上下文语境来看，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。

(64) ____________

A: yet

B: still

C: also

D: just

答案:C

解析: 从句子前面的not only便可以推断，此处应选also。

(65) ____________

A: spots

B: places

C: moves

D: actions

答案:B

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。

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