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阅读理解 　　Deaths from cigarettes are likely to happen every minute around the world over the next quarter century．Now worldwide smoking is already killing 3 million people each year, and this number is increasing．That translates to six people every minute and the worst is yet to come．If the smoking patterns continue, then by the time the young smokers of today reach middle or old age, there will be about 10 million deaths a year from tobacco, one death every three seconds．Six million deaths have been caused by smoking since the 1950s．Smoking will kill about 10 million people a year by 2020．Most of them will be in developing countries where the habit continues to attract young women．Smoking is like no other things．It will kill one in two smokers in the end． 　　The reseacher said they used lung-cancer(肺癌)rates(率)as the yardstick because in developed countries, lung cancer is so closely related to smoking and so seldom caused by any other factor(因素)among nonsmokers．According to the report, 10 percent of middle-age British men will die from smoking by the time they are 35 -69 years old．In Poland, 20 percent of men are certain to die from smoking． 　　Cigarette smoking will kill more than 3 million people a year in China by the middle of the next century．However, if half of the smokers today could kick the habit, 5 million deaths from smoking－related diseases could then be avoided．Presently some 73 percent of Chinese men over 40 are smokers．The rate is 68 percent in cities and 75 percent in the countryside． (1) In the first paragraph the underlined word“is yet to come”means ________． [　　] A． has to come B． is coming C． had not come yet D． should come (2) Now around the world every ________ seconds one people is killed by smoking． [　　] A． three B． six C． ten D． twenty (3) Which of the following ideas can be found in the passage? [　　] A． Women smokers will become fewer and fewer in developed countries． B． Lung-cancer is often caused among the people in developing countries． C． Non-smokers can seldom cause lung cancer in developed countries． D． Smoking is the main cause of lung cancer． (4) The passage mainly tells us smoking ________． [　　] A． is a bad habit B． causes a lot of diseases C． is killing more and more people D． cannot be easily got rid of

Answer 1

答案：1．C;2．C;3．D;4．C;
解析：

(2)	根据第一段第二句killing 3 million people each year计算约每10秒就有人死于吸烟及由于吸烟引起的疾病．
(3)	见第二段第一句．
(4)	从第一段可以看出，现在每年因吸烟死亡人数为三万人．再过20年，如情况不变，吸烟的人死亡率将会上升到每年十万．