第六部分 ：完形填空(第51——65題，每題1分，共15分)

閱讀下面的短文，文中有15處空白，每處空白給出了4個選項，請根據短文的內容從4個選項中選擇1個最佳答案。

(51)根據下面材料，回答題。

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 (服務Professor Knorad Jamrozik, of Imperial (帝國的) 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 (超過) 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 (易受傷害的) 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:從短文題目中的passive smoking和接下來的second.hand smoking

等詞語中不難看出，此處應選passive一詞。

(52) ____________

A: kills

B: hurts

C: wounds

D: injures

答案:A

解析: 從短文題目中的workplace killer可以斷定，此處應選kills一詞。

(53) ____________

A: dealing

B: working

C: smoking

D: shopping

答案:C

解析: 前面已經提到過“二手煙”。因此，此處選“吸煙”。

(54) ____________

A: rate

B: motion

C: system

D: disease

答案:D

解析: 從之前的“700人死于癌癥”和之后的“ 中風”可以看出，此處要表達的是心臟病。

(55) ____________

A: level

B: industry

C: location

D: nature

答案:B

解析:

短文的第一段中已經出現過“服務行業”這一詞語，因此，此處也就不難做出選擇。

(56) ____________

A: close

B: with

C: for

D: next

答案:B

解析: 從上下文語境來看，此處要表達的意思是與吸煙者生活在一起，因此選with。

(57) ____________

A: researchers

B: patients

C: members

D: smokers

答案:A

解析: 從上下文語境來看，Jamrozik是一名研究員，因此這里要說的是其他研究人員。

(58) ____________

A: applied

B: based

C: called

D: hoped

答案:B

解析: 這里考查的是固定短語be based

Oil(基于……，以……為基礎)。從上下文語境來看，他的研究結果是基于……得出的。

(59) ____________

A: habits

B: places

C: ideas

D: chances

答案:D

解析: 從上下文語境來看，顯然此處要表示的是死于二手煙的危險。

(60) ____________

A: no

B: most

C: few

D: much

答案:B

解析:

從上下文語境來看，句子接下來提到，歐洲的吸煙狀況與美國的吸煙狀況基本上差不多

，因此，此處應選“絕大多數”一詞。

(61) ____________

A: small

B: larger

C: lesser

D: more

答案:C

解析: 這里考查的是固定短語 ：to a greater or lesser extent(在較大或較小的程度上)。

(62) ____________

A: private

B: secret

C: open

D: public

答案:D

解析:

從上下文語境來看，前面一直在談服務行業雇員遭受吸煙危害的情況，因此，

此處要表達的意思是公共場所。

(63) ____________

A: seriously

B: strangely

C: nervously

D: personally

答案:A

解析:

從上下文語境來看，從短文前面的內容可以得知 ：

在公共場所吸煙對服務行業雇員的身體健康造成很大危害。因此，此處應選一個表示“

危害”程度的副詞。

(64) ____________

A: yet

B: still

C: also

D: just

答案:C

解析: 從句子前面的not only便可以推斷，此處應選also。

(65) ____________

A: spots

B: places

C: moves

D: actions

答案:B

解析: 短文前面已經多次提到“公共場所”一詞，因此，此處的選擇也就不難了。

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