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
考研
Cigarette smoking is a health hazard of sufficient importance in the United States. It was 50 years ago this month that America’
Cigarette smoking is a health hazard of sufficient importance in the United States. It was 50 years ago this month that America’
admin
2019-01-01
48
问题
Cigarette smoking is a health hazard of sufficient importance in the United States. It was 50 years ago this month that America’s Surgeon General sounded that warning, marking the beginning of the end of cigarette manufacturing—and of smoking itself—as a respectable activity.
Some 20 million Americans have died from the habit since then. But advertising restrictions and smoking bans have had their effect: the proportion of American adults who smoke has dropped from 43% to 18%; smoking rates among teenagers are at a record low. In many other countries the trends are similar.
The current Surgeon General, Boris Lushniak, marked the half-century with a report on January 17th, declaring smoking even deadlier than previously thought. He added diabetes, colorectal cancer and other ailments to the list of ills it causes, and promised end-game strategies to extinguish cigarettes altogether.
New technologies such as e-cigarettes promise to deliver nicotine less riskily. E-cigarettes give users a hit of vapour infused with nicotine. In America, sales of the manufacturer, who is the fastest e-cigarettes-adopter, have jumped from nearly nothing five years ago to at least 1 billion in 2013.
At first, it looked as if e-cigarettes might lure smokers from the big tobacco brands to startups such as NJOY. But tobacco companies have bigger
war chests
, more knowledge of smokers’ habits and better ties to distributors than the newcomers. Some experts reckon Americans will puff more e-cigarettes than normal ones within a decade, but tobacco folk are skeptical. E-cigarettes account for just 1% of America’s cigarette market. In Europe 7% of smokers had tried e-cigarettes by 2012 but only 1% kept them up.
And no one knows what sort of restrictions regulators will eventually place on reduced risk products, including e-cigarettes. If these companies can manage the transition to less harmful smokes, and convince regulators to be sensible, the tobacco giants could keep up the sort of performance that has made their shares such a fine investment over the years. But some analysts are not so sure.
Many tobacco firms are struggling to deliver the consistency of the earnings-per-share model we’ve seen in the past. If that persists, investors may fall out of love with the industry. A half-century after the Surgeon General’ s alarm, they, and hopeless smokers, are its last remaining friends.
The phases "war chests" (Para. 5) most probably means_____.
选项
A、space
B、funds
C、networks
D、competitors
答案
B
解析
根据题干关键词定位到第五段。其中war“战争”和chests“胸部”对考生来说并不陌生,但war chests的含义需要通过上下文运用排除法来确定。本句将烟草公司和新兴公司作比较,But表转折,因此考生需要参考前文。第四段讲了运用电子香烟这一技术的新兴公司销售额激增,故本句涉及的比较,第一个内容可能就是“资金”方面。war chests合在一起意为“战争基金;(为竞争等筹措的)资金”,故B项为正确答案。A项“空间”、C项“网络”和D项“竞争者”均不是该词的正确释义,故排除。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/D46Z777K
0
考研英语一
相关试题推荐
InAmericaalone,tippingisnowa$16billion-a-yearindustry.Arecentpollshowedthat40%ofAmericans【C1】______thepractice
InAmericaalone,tippingisnowa$16billion-a-yearindustry.Arecentpollshowedthat40%ofAmericans【C1】______thepractice
Isanti-whitebiasaproblem?Anewstudysayswhitesthinkdiscriminationagainstthemisabiggerproblemthananti-blackbias
Isanti-whitebiasaproblem?Anewstudysayswhitesthinkdiscriminationagainstthemisabiggerproblemthananti-blackbias
Isanti-whitebiasaproblem?Anewstudysayswhitesthinkdiscriminationagainstthemisabiggerproblemthananti-blackbias
Isanti-whitebiasaproblem?Anewstudysayswhitesthinkdiscriminationagainstthemisabiggerproblemthananti-blackbias
Thetranslatormusthaveanexcellent,up-to-dateknowledgeofhissourcelanguages,full【C1】______inthehandlingofhistarget
Thetranslatormusthaveanexcellent,up-to-dateknowledgeofhissourcelanguages,full【C1】______inthehandlingofhistarget
随机试题
如经直肠指检未发现肿块,则进一步处理原则是如肛门镜检查确诊为第Ⅱ期内痔出血,经纤维结肠镜检查除外肿瘤,则最佳治疗方案是
以下哪项不属于收集病人资料的内容
具有β-内酰胺结构的药物是
A.雌激素升高B.AFP升高C.CAl25明显升高D.HCG升高E.17酮17羟类固醇升高
在工程网络计划过程中,如果只发现工作P进度出现拖延,但拖延的未超过原计划总时差,则工作P实际进度( )。
最低工资标准是根据物价指数调整的,如果发生特殊情况,物价指数小于最低工资标准的增长幅度,那么,应在确认()增长幅度以后,以此增长幅度作为调整工资的标准。
教师为了让学生更好地了解古代游记散文的写作特点,准备再向学生推荐一篇散文,下列合适的是()。
Windows98属于下列哪种类型操作系统( )。
若某二叉树的前序遍历访问句是abdgcefh,中序遍历访问顺序是dgbaechf,则其后序遍历的结点访问顺序是
Duringthetraditionalweddingceremony,theCD#6bridalcouplepromiseseachotherlifelong【M1】______devotion.Yet,a
最新回复
(
0
)