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Now medical researchers are discovering a truism: "alcohol and tobacco do not mix." These two substances, both dangerous to heal
Now medical researchers are discovering a truism: "alcohol and tobacco do not mix." These two substances, both dangerous to heal
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2014-02-27
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问题
Now medical researchers are discovering a truism: "alcohol and tobacco do not mix." These two substances, both dangerous to health, act synergistically, each making the other more powerful and thereby causing worse damage than either would do alone.
Because of this interaction, the person who both smokes and drinks heavily may be at a greater risk of becoming ill than one who drinks like a fish, but never smokes or who smokes like a chimney, but never drinks. To get an idea of how this synergism may work, consider what happens when a smoker lights up a cigarette. With each puff he inhales at least 4,000 different chemicals. These include toxic hydrogen-cyanide, carbon monoxide and nitrogen-dioxide gases, and four dozen compounds such as benzo pyrene and radioactive polonium 210. All are known as carcinogens. Most chemical vapors in tobacco smoke get deposited in the mouth, nose, throat and lungs in a coating called tar. It is in this tar that most of the cancer — inducing potential of tobacco smoke lies. Then in a scenario typical of chronic heavy drinkers — most of whom also smoke — our smoker feels thirsty and washes down that smoke coating in his mouth and throat with whisky. The alcohol in his drink is not in itself a carcinogen, but it may act as a solvent, dissolving the tar-taped tobacco poisons, and easing the transport of carcinogens across membranes.
Our smoker continues to drink. Soon he lights another cigarette and inhales deeply. Behind his embattled lungs, meanwhile, his liver has gone on full alert to save his life. The three-pound chemical factory, which cleans most toxins from the bloodstream, reacts to alcohol as a foreign substance and metabolizes 95 percent of it into other chemicals. But in turning its energy to clearing just one-half ounce of pure alcohol — the amount in a standard drink — per hour from our drinking smoker’s blood, the liver’s other metabolic functions suffer a sharp decrease. Poisons from tobacco smoke that otherwise would be removed from his blood within minutes are now allowed to flood his body for hours or days, depending on how much alcohol the liver must dispose of.
The person who smokes one or two packs of cigarettes a day loses on average six to eight percent of his blood’s oxygen carrying capacity. If our heavy smoker’s use of alcohol has led to alcoholism, he is probably malnourished. This malnourishment compounds problems he is having with insufficient oxygen. His brain cells are dying from it.
The synergistic effect of alcohol and tobacco may deliver a powerful blow to the cardiovascular system as well as the upper respiratory tract. For those prone to hypertension who drink more than two ounces of alcohol a day, high blood pressure is common and with it the increased risk of stroke and heart attack. For hypertensives who combine smoking and drinking, the risks are even greater.
Which of the following can be the best title of this passage?
选项
A、Dead Mixer=Alcohol+Tobacco.
B、Alcohol and Tobacco Are Dangerous to Health.
C、Tobacco Contains a Lot of Toxic Compounds.
D、Interaction of the Alcohol and Tobacco.
答案
A
解析
这是一道主旨题。文章第一段指出:现在,医学研究人员发现了一个公认的真理——酒精和烟草不能混合使用:这两种物质都对健康有威胁,如果混合使用,每一种物质会使另一种物质加剧对健康的影响。随后几段具体说明了两种混合使用产生的危害。这说明,本文主要讲的是酒精和烟草混合使用产生的危害。A说“致命混合物=酒精+烟草”,这可以表达文章的主题。B和D不能表达文章的主题:C太片面。
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考研英语一
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