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【单选题】TheAmerican screen has long been a smoky place, at least since 1942’s Now, Voyager, in whichBetteDavis and Paul Henreid showed how to make and seal a romantic deal over a pair of cigarettes that were smoldering as much as the stars. Today cigarettes are more common on screen than at any other time since midcentury: 75% of all Hollywood films—including 36% of those rated G or PG—show tobacco use, according to a 2006 survey by the University ofCalifornia, San Francisco.
Audiences, especially kids, are taking notice. Two recent studies, published in Lancet and Pediatrics, have found that among children as young as 10, those exposed to the most screen smoking are up to 2.7 times as likely as others to pick up the habit. Worse, it’s the ones from nonsmoking homes who are hit the hardest. Now the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH)—the folks behind the designated-driver campaign—are pushing to get the smokes off the screen. "Some movies show kids up to 14 incidents of smoking per hour," saysBarryBloom, HSPH’s dean. "We’re in the business of preventing disease, and cigarettes are the No. 1 preventable cause."
Harvard long believed that getting cigarettes out of movies could have as powerful an effect, but it wouldn’t be easy.Cigarette makers had a history of striking product-placement deals with Hollywood, and while the 1998 tobacco settlement prevents that, nothing stops directors from incorporating smoking into scenes on their own. In 1999 Harvard began holding one-on-one meetings with studio execs trying to change that, and last year the Motion PictureAssociation ofAmerica flung the door open, invitingBloom to make a presentation in February to all the studios. Harvard’s advice was direct: Get the butts entirely out, or at least make smoking unappealing.

A、few films provide a glimpse of what a no-smoking or low-smoking Hollywood would be like. Producer LindsayDoran, who once helped persuade director John Hughes to keep FerrisBueller smoke-free in the 1980s hit, wanted to de the same for the leads of her 2006 movie Stranger Than Fiction. When a writer convinced her that the character played byEmma Thompson had to smoke,Doran relented, but from the way Thompson hacks her way through the film and snuffs out her cigarettes in a palmful of spit, it’s clear the glamour’s gone.And remember all the smoking in TheDevil Wears Prada No That’s because the producers of that film kept it out entirely—even in a story that travels from the US fashion world to Paris, two of the most tobacco-happy places on earth. "No one smoked in that movie," saysDoran, "and no one noticeD、"
Such movies are hardly the rule, but the pressure is growing. Like smokers, studios may conclude that quitting the habit is not just a lot healthier but also a lot smarter.
What’s the author’s purpose of the second paragraph
A、To show audiences are easy to be influenced by smoky movies.

B、To show 10-year-old kids are the most dangerous group to pick up the habit by screen smoking.

C、To show smoking cinematic version give the worst influence to nonsmoking homes’ kids.
D．To show why should we prevent cigarettes on screen.

网考网参考答案：D
网考网解析：
[直击题眼] 考查对第二段的理解。 [深层剖析] 本题难度不大，细读选项再稍加推理就可选出正确答案。第二段写观众、尤其是儿童很容易受到银幕吸烟场面影响，作者列举了研究结果来证明这一点，而这些都是为什么要消除银幕上的烟雾的原因。所以答案选[D]。 [干扰项分析] 第二段说观众尤其是小观众们十分注意这些场面。Lancet and Pediatrics上发表的两个最近的研究表明：常看到吸烟场面的10岁的孩子染上吸烟的比率上升到其他孩子的2.7倍。更糟的是，那些无烟家庭孩子受到的影响最严重。[A]是文中表明的现象，不是深层原因，[B]、[C]是其中事实细节，不是整段话想要表明的内容。 document.getElementById("warp").style.display="none"; document.getElementById("content").style.display="block"; 查看试题解析出处>>