题目内容
Deaths from cigarettes are likely to be three times more over the next quarter century every minute around the world. Scientists warn in a new research done all over the world.The findings are in a book on deaths from smoking in developed countries from 1950 to 2000, to be published today by scientists at Britain's Cancer Research Fund(基金会), the World Health Organization and the American Cancer Society.
“Worldwide smoking is already killing 3 million people each year, and this number is increasing, ”Richard Peto, a researcher at the Fund, said at a London news conference Monday. That translates to six people every minute, he said, and the worst is to get to come.
“If the situation continues, then by the time the young smokers of today reach their middle or old age there will be about 10 million deaths a year from tobacco—one death every three seconds, ” Peto said.
1. The passage mainly tells us__________.
A. deaths from smoking B. research of smoking
C. smoking and health D. the rapid increase of smokers
2. Deaths caused by smoking will be three times more in__________.
A. 20 years B. 25 years C. 15 years D. 5 years
3. According to Richard Peto, __________.
A. more and more people will realize the great danger of smoking to health
B. smoking kills more old people than young ones
C. deaths from smoking show no sigh of decreasing in the near future
D. the smoking problem is more serious in developed countries than in developing countries
4. This text is most probably taken from__________.
A. a book B. a research report
C. a scientist’s lecture D. a newspaper or magazine
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