Question

C.O.P.D(慢性障礙性肺病) blocks air flow through the lungs. It makes breathing difficult. The leading cause of C.O.P.D. is cigarette smoking. Experts at the National Institutes of Health in the United States say there is no cure to the damage to the lungs.

Dawn Demeo is an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts. She said, “By 2020, C.O.P.D. may be the third leading cause of death across the world.”

C.O.P.D. is a new name for emphysema（肺氣腫） and chronic bronchitis（慢性支氣管炎）. These are the two most common forms of the disease. Many people with C.O.P.D. have both of them. And Doctor Demeo says more women than men now die from the disease.

She is the lead author of a study by a team from Harvard’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital and the University of Bergen in Norway. The new study adds to findings that women may be more at risk than men from the damaging effects of smoking.

The team examined results from a Norwegian study of 954 people with C.O.P.D. Inga-Cecilie Soerheim co-wrote the team’s findings. Doctor Soerheim says they show that women suffered the same level of C.O.P.D.as men. But the female smokers were younger and had smoked a lot less.

The team also looked at two groups among the people in the study. These were people under the age of 60 and those who had smoked for less than 20 years. In both cases, women had more serious C.O.P.D. and a greater loss of lung function (功能）than men.

1.Which of the following statements about C.O.P.D is NOT true ______.

A. Cigarette smoking is likely to cause C.O.P.D.

B. C.O.P.D. makes it hard for a person to breathe

C. C.O.P.D will be one of the most life-threatening diseases.

D. Many people with C.O.P.D. have either emphysema or chronic bronchitis.

2.It can be known from the study that_____.

A. female smokers die faster than male ones.  

B. women are more likely to suffer from the damaging effects of smoking than men.

C. women who suffer the same level of C.O.P.D as men were older and weaker.

D. in the group of people under the age of 60, men suffered more from C.O.P.D than women.

3.Which of the following can be the best title for the passage?

A .Smoking Kills

B. Smoking Triggers Diseases

C. The Leading Causes of C.O.P.D.

D. Women Suffers More from C.O.P.D. than Men  

4.In which part of a newspaper would you most probably read this passage?

A. Science      B. Health report      C .Education      D. Business report

 

Answer 1

【答案】

 

1.D

2.B

3.D

4.B

【解析】

試題分析：本文主要介紹了世界第三號殺手———慢性障礙性肺病對婦女健康的嚴重影響。這種病的兩種最常見形式是肺氣腫和慢性支氣管炎，而造成這種病的主要原因是吸煙，作者指出通過研究表明婦女受吸煙的危害要遠遠大于男士，而且死于這種疾病的婦女人數(shù)也要大于男士。

1.D細節(jié)理解題。從文章第三段C.O.P.D. is a new name for emphysema and chronic bronchitis. These are the two most common forms of the disease.可知肺氣腫和慢性支氣管炎是慢性障礙性肺病的兩種最常見的形式，故D選項內(nèi)容錯誤。

2.B細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)文章第四段The new study adds to findings that women may be more at risk than men from the damaging effects of smoking.可知相對于男人而言婦女受吸煙的危害要嚴重，答案選B。

3.D主旨大意題。文章首先介紹了世界第三大殺手— C.O.P.D(慢性障礙性肺病)，然后提出了專家的看法Doctor Demeo says more women than men now die from the disease.，在接下來的段落中主要講述了這種病對婦女的嚴重影響，由此判斷D選項內(nèi)容能夠反映文章中心，故答案選D。

4.B推理判斷題。本文屬于科普性文章，介紹了慢性障礙性肺病的一些情況，由此推斷文章應(yīng)該屬于健康方面，故答案選B。

考點：考查醫(yī)學(xué)類短文閱讀。