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
For smokers, the world is an increasingly hostile place. Driven out of bars and other public spaces, smokers are now to be found
For smokers, the world is an increasingly hostile place. Driven out of bars and other public spaces, smokers are now to be found
admin
2013-07-20
37
问题
For smokers, the world is an increasingly hostile place. Driven out of bars and other public spaces, smokers are now to be found cowering (蜷缩)down cold and smelly alleyways. To add to their misery, each day seems to bring a new study showing how vile and dangerous the cigarette smoke can be. Could things get any worse? Possibly, if smokers were also knocked off their comfortable perch within popular culture. For in rich countries they can at least rely on films to portray their habit as somewhat more normal and prevalent than it actually is in the real world. Indeed, Hollywood has long been accused of glamorizing (美化)smoking.
Research has identified links between smoking in films and the consumption of cigarettes by those leaving a cinema. What prompts such a response is unclear. But it is clearly relevant to those involved in public-health policy. Dylan Wagner and his colleagues at Dartmouth College, in New Hampshire, therefore decided to investigate the question.
They put 34 people, half of them smokers, into a functional-magnetic-resonance imager to detect changes in the blood flow in the brain. Participants were asked to watch the first 30 minutes of Matchstick Men. When smokers viewed a scene that included smoking, they showed greater activity in those parts of the brain involved in perception and in the co-ordination of actions—the areas known to interpret and plan hand movements—as though they, too, were about to light a cigarette. This activity also corresponded to the hand that the volunteer used when smoking. Non-smokers showed no such enhancement. The part of the brain affected is the home of what is known as the mirror system. This induces, from mere observation, emotions and sensations similar to those induced by actual experience—for example, fear when a large spider is climbing the leg of an actor in a film. That it might provoke a desire to smoke is thus no surprise.
Scott Heuttel, a neuroscientist at Duke University, in North Carolina, says that it has long been known that visual cues induce drug cravings, and that this study builds on a growing body of evidence showing that addiction may be reinforced not just by the drugs themselves but by images and other experiences associated with those drugs. Although smokers trying to quit are advised to avoid other smokers, and to remove smoking-related paraphernalia (用具)from their homes, it might not occur to them to avoid films in which smoking is depicted.
No doubt, though, it will occur to society’s nannies (保姆)to remove the temptation altogether. Expect, on the basis of findings like this, a drive to purge films of characters who smoke. Unfortunately for smokers there is, as a gravelly voice-over might say in Hollywood, "No Place to Hide."
What might be an even worse thing for smokers according to the first paragraph?
选项
A、Being shut out from public places.
B、A new study showing the harm of smoking.
C、Having no popular culture to count on.
D、The extensive banning of smoking by the government.
答案
C
解析
事实细节题。第一段主要描述吸烟者的生活现状:只能躲在小巷里偷着抽烟;越来越多的研究表明吸烟的可恨和危险。还有比这些更糟糕的是让他们脱离流行文化中的舒适环境。由此可见,对吸烟者来说更糟糕的事情可能是失去了可以依赖的流行文化环境,因此答案为C)。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/Bz97777K
0
大学英语六级
相关试题推荐
A、Shewasextremelyhappywithherexams.B、Shewasnotsureabouttheresultsofherexams.C、Shecouldn’tbelievetheresults
Theageofgildedyouthisover.Today’sunder-thirtiesarethefirstgenerationforacenturywhocanexpectalowerlivingsta
Smokingisverypopularwithpeople.【C1】______ofthesmokersbelievethatsmokingcan【C2】______theirnerveshardenedwithsoci
Ironically,intheUnitedStates,acountryofimmigrants,prejudiceanddiscriminationcontinuetobeseriousproblems.Therew
Comparisonsweredrawnbetweenthedevelopmentoftelevisioninthe20thcenturyandthediffusionofprintinginthe15thand1
A、Talkingaboutherdislikeofanysubject.B、Regrettingnotgettingalongwithherpartners.C、Tellingliesaboutherabilitya
A、Theyshowfear.B、Theyreachout.C、Theystarttocry.D、Theyturntoadults.B短文说,babies似乎很怕陌生的成年人,但他们却会试图触碰陌生的baby。所以B正确。
Onlywhenwehavesufferedaserioussetback,__________(我们才会去努力克服自己的自满情绪)
A、In1978.B、In1980.C、In1985.D、In1987.C事实细节题。文章明确指出,文章在1985年臭氧层首次被人发现,所以C)为正确答案。
A、AdvertiseonTVorinnewspapers.B、Askthestafftoworkovertime.C、Givecustomersgiftsforfree.D、Distributeleafletsin
随机试题
"I’dmethermanytimesbeforeyesterday.""So______."
A.淋巴细胞B.浆细胞C.中性粒细胞D.嗜酸性粒细胞在细菌感染的炎症病变中,最常见的炎细胞是
前胸壁计数肋骨的重要标志是
自动喷水灭火系统水质要求。以下哪条错误?(2005,68)
下列施工机械的费用项目中,不能计入施工机械台班单价的是()。
施工项目经理部在对施工机械使用费支出的控制过程中,采取合理安排施工生产、加强机械调度工作等的成本控制措施,主要作用是控制机械的()。
学习心理学研究的对象是()
马克思主义是由一系列的基本理论、基本观点和基本方法构成的科学体系,它是一个完整的整体。马克思主义哲学、马克思主义政治经济学和科学社会主义,是马克思主义理论体系不可分割的三个主要组成部分。全部马克思主义学说的核心和理论结论就是
Inthe1350spoorcountrymenbegantohavecottagesandgardenswhichtheycouldcalltheirown.Werethesefourteenth-centuryp
UniversitiesBranchOutFromtheirstudentbodiestotheirresearchpractices,universitiesarebecomingmoreglobal.
最新回复
(
0
)