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【单选题】Passive smoking is workplace killerPressure mounted onBritain on Monday to take action on 【51】 smoking with new research showing second, hand smoke 【52】 about one worker each week in the hospitality industry.Professor Konrad Jamrozik,of ImperialCollege in London, told a conference on environmental tobacco that second-hand 【53】 kills 49 employees in pubs, bars, restaurants and hotels each year and contributes to 700 deaths from lung cancer, heart 【54】 and stroke across the total national work force."Exposure in the hospitality 【55】 at work outweighs the consequences of exposure of living 【56】 a smoker for those staff," Jamrozik said in an interview.Other 【57】 have measured the levels of exposure to passive smoking but Jamrozik calculated how it would translate into avoidable deaths.His findings are 【58】 on the number of people working in the hospitality industry inBritain, their exposure to second, hand smoke and their 【59】 of dying from it.Jamrozik said me findings would apply to 【60】 countries inEurope because, to a greater or 【61】 extent, levels of smoking in the community are similar.ProfessorCarolBlack, president of the RoyalCollege of Physicians, which sponsored the meeting, said the research is proof of the need for a ban on smoking in 【62】 places."Environmental tobacco smoke in pubs, bars, restaurants and other public places is 【63】 damaging to the health of employees as well as the general public," she said in a statement." Making these places smoke, free not only protects vulnerable staff and the publi
C、It will 【64】 help over 300,000 people inBritain to stop smoking completely," she addeD、Ireland recently became the first country to introduce a national ban on smoking in public 【65】 . New York and parts ofAustralia have taken similar measures.workplace/n.工作场所;车间killer/n. 杀人者;凶手hospitality/n.友好款待;好客;殷勤imperial/adj. 英联邦的outweighs. 在重要性(或价值上)超过vulnerable/adj. 易受伤的;脆弱的
A、kills
B．hurts

C、wounds
D．injures

网考网参考答案：A
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