首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
Around one in a hundred deaths worldwide is due to passive smoking, which kills an estimated 600,000 people a year, World Health
Around one in a hundred deaths worldwide is due to passive smoking, which kills an estimated 600,000 people a year, World Health
admin
2013-10-11
61
问题
Around one in a hundred deaths worldwide is due to passive smoking, which kills an estimated 600,000 people a year, World Health Organization(WHO)researchers said recently.
In the first study to(1)______ the global impact of second-hand smoke, WHO experts found that children are more(2)______ exposed to second-hand smoke than any other age-group, and around 165, 000 of them a year die of it.
" Two-thirds of these deaths (3)______ in Africa and South Asia," the researchers wrote in their study.(4)______ exposure to second-hand smoke, the double blow of (5)______ diseases and tobacco seems to be a deadly(6)______ for children in these regions.
Commenting(7)______ the findings, researchers said policymakers try to(8)______families to stop smoking in the home. In some countries, smoke-free homes are becoming the norm, but(9)______universally.
To get(10)______data from all 192, WHO researchers had to go back to 2004. Worldwide,40 percent of children were exposed to second-hand smoke in 2004. This exposure was (11)______to have caused 379,000 deaths from heart disease, 165,000 from lower(12)______ infections, and 21,400 from lung cancer. For the full impact of smoking, these deaths should be(13)______to the estimated 5. 1 million deaths a year(14)______to active tobacco use, the researchers said.
(15)______ deaths due to passive smoking in children were (16)______ toward poor and middle-income countries, deaths in adults were spread across countries (17)______all income levels.
In Europe’s high-income countries , only 71 child deaths occurred, while 35,388 deaths were in adults. (18)______ in the countries assessed in Africa, an estimated 43,375 deaths(19)______ passive smoking were in children(20)______9,514 in adults.
(11)
选项
A、predicted
B、estimated
C、calculated
D、doomed
答案
B
解析
动词辨析题。[B]estimated的常用搭配有be estimated to do sth.,意为“据估计”,故为答案。[A]predicted的常用搭配有be predicted to do sth.,意为“预测为”,表示对将来状况的一种预测,[C]calculated的常用搭配有be calculated to,意为“据计算”,表示在有数据的情况下,根据计算所得出的结论,[D]be doomed to意为“注定要”,这三个选项意思都不符合句意,故排除。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/1vLK777K
0
专业英语四级
相关试题推荐
Howmanypeoplediedinthecycloneatleast?
Onlybyimprovingthelivingstandardoftheordinarypeople,______thesupportfromthepeople.
Nowadays,manypeopleholdthatmaintainingpubliclibrariesisawasteofmoney,becausecomputertechnologyhasalreadyreplac
Wemusttakepartinphysicallaborinorderto______ourselvesmorecloselywiththeworkingpeople.
Allthecommunists______thepeopleinsteadofbeingservedbythepeople.
Broadlyspeaking,theEnglishmanisaquiet,shy,reservedpersonwhoisfully【C1】______onlyamongpeopleheknowswell.In
Broadlyspeaking,theEnglishmanisaquiet,shy,reservedpersonwhoisfully【C1】______onlyamongpeopleheknowswell.In
Broadlyspeaking,theEnglishmanisaquiet,shy,reservedpersonwhoisfully【C1】______onlyamongpeopleheknowswell.In
Broadlyspeaking,theEnglishmanisaquiet,shy,reservedpersonwhoisfully【C1】______onlyamongpeopleheknowswell.In
随机试题
软件测试的方法可分为静态测试和()
女性,13岁,因支原体肺炎使用四环素治疗2周,近日有腹痛、腹泻并伴有虚脱,此现象属于药物引起的
男,54岁,慢性咳嗽10年,气急3年,逐渐加重。X线胸片示肋间隙增宽,两肺透亮度增加,右上圆形透亮区,两下肺纹理紊乱。诊断应先考虑
检查S042-时,SO42-的最佳浓度是
重力坝地基透水性较大时,为了防渗、减小扬压力并防止地基的破坏,采取的地基处理措施是()。
票据上的签章和其他记载事项应当真实,不得伪造、变造。()
( )用于衡量银行实际承担损失超出预计损失的那部分损失。
在正常运输情况下,海上货物运输保险的责任起讫以“仓至仓”条款为依据,但货物自目的港卸离海轮时起,满(),无论被保险货物是否进入收货人仓库,保险责任均告终止。
色觉异常的人辨认颜色的线索是()
下面标点符号使用没有错误的一项是()。
最新回复
(
0
)