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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，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．

练习：

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

2． A)kills B)hurts C)wounds D1 injures

3. A)dealing B)working C)system D)disease

4. A)rate B)motion C)smoking D)shopping

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： 1． A 从文章题目中的“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。

2． A 从文章题目中的“workplace killer”可以断定，此处应选“kills”一词。

3． C 前面已经提到过“二手烟”，因此，此处显然应选“吸烟”。

4． D 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。

5．B 文章第一段中已经出现过“服务行业”这一词语，因此，此处也就不难作出选择。

6．B 此处要表达的意思应是与吸烟者生活在一起，因此只能选“with”。

7．A Jamrozik是名研究人员，因此这里要说的是其他研究人员。

8．B、此处要表达的意思是：他的研究结果是基于……得出的。

9．D 显然，此处要表示的是死于二手烟的危险。

10．B 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。

11．C “to a greater or lesser extent”是一种固定用法。 ．

12．D 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。

13．A 从文章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。

14．C 从句子前面的“not only”便可以推断，此处应选“also”。

15．B 文章前面已经多次提到“公共场所”一词，因此，此处的选择也就不难了。

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