题文
The World Health Organization recently reported that the number of cases of tuberculosis(TB) has been abating since 2006 . Also, fewer people are dying from TB. But a study by researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, says smoking could threaten this progress.Nearly twenty percent of all people use tobacco, and millions of non-smokers get sick from breathing the smoke. The new study predicts that smoking will produce an additional thirty-four million TB deaths by 2024.
Efforts to control the spread of TB have mainly focused on finding and treating infections. Fewer efforts have been made to understand the causes. Dr Anthony Fauci is the director of the United States National Institute of Allergy and Infectious diseases. He said, “Despite our control efforts, we still have more than a million people each year dying from TB and millions of people getting infected; we realize it’s still a very important problem. So we have to do the practical thing and we have to do the fundamental research things at the same time. ”
Smoking does not cause TB; bacteria cause the infection. But the study says smoking affects the nervous system in a way that makes an inactive case of TB more likely to develop into an active one. Stanton Glantz is the director of the University of California’s Centre for Tobacco Control Research and Education and an author of the new study. He says it shows that TB cannot be controlled unless tobacco use is controlled. He said, “It increases the number of people who will get TB by about seven percent.”
The study is described as the first to identify a direct link between tobacco use and rates of TB infection and death. Professor Glantz says the results should guide those creating health policies and TB control efforts. He said, “If you want to control the infectious disease of TB, you have to control the tobacco industry and the tobacco industry’s efforts to increase tobacco use, particularly in developing countries where TB is a big problem.”
小题1:What would be the beat title for this passage? A．Scientists try to find the causes of TB deaths.B．Study shows smoking is harmful to our health.C．Study links smoking to millions of TB deaths.D．Scientists pay more attention to TB deaths than before.小题2:What does the underlined word “abating” in Paragraph 1 mean?A．RespondingB．Surviving.C．Rising.D．Falling.小题3: What would Dr Anthony Fauci probably agree with?A．More efforts are needed to find the causes of TB infections.B．TB infections are no longer a serious problem.C．Few efforts have been put into the work of treating TB infections.D．The practical and the fundamental research cannot be done together at present.小题4:It is implied in the passage that ____________.A．it is not very hard to control TBB．smoking indirectly leads to TBC．an inactive case of TB is deadlyD．people cannot blame smoking for TB 题型：未知难度：其他题型
答案
小题1:C
小题2:D
小题3:A
小题4:B
解析
本文主要讲解了研究人员对吸烟和数百万的肺结核患者的关系进行了论述。
小题1:主旨题。从第一段及最后一段The study is described as the first to identify a direct link between tobacco use and rates of TB infection and death.可知本文主要讲解了研究人员对吸烟和数百万的肺结核患者的关系进行了论述，故选C
小题2:推断题。从文章第一段及Also, fewer people are dying from TB.可知，这个单词的意思是减少了，即从2006来肺结核的病人已经有了减少，故选D
小题3:细节题。从文章 Efforts to control the spread of TB have mainly focused on finding and treating infections. Fewer efforts have been made to understand the causes.可知Dr Anthony Fauci 认为应更加关注于找出肺结核传染的原因，故选A
小题4:细节推断题。从Smoking does not cause TB; bacteria cause the infection. But the study says smoking affects the nervous system in a way that makes an inactive case of TB more likely to develop into an active one.可知吸烟并不会直接导致肺结核，故选B
点评：本文推断题较多，给文章增添了一定的难度。对于此类文章，所给的信息量比较精炼，要求学生仔细认真的读懂文章，不能走马观花的看，要根据题目中的内容对比文章的上下，综合作答，尤其对于推断题，要准确理会作者的写作情感，事情发展的逻辑关系都需要特别注意。
考点
据考高分专家说，试题“The World Health Org.....”主要考查你对 [健康环保类阅读 ]考点的理解。健康环保类阅读
健康环保累阅读概念：
健康环保类文章常是介绍科学知识、生活常识和环境保护方面的短文。体裁有记叙文、 说明文、议论文和各种应用文。
健康环保类文章阅读技巧：
健康环保类文章常是介绍科学知识、生活常识和环境保护方面的短文。阅读此类短文要以现象或事物为中心进行思考，理解现象产生的原因、条件和客观规律等。同时要抓住事物的特征、用途和相互关系等。科普环保类文章一般为说明文，从结构上看大致可分为三个部分：
第一部分一般是文章的首段，主要用来提出文章的主题，即文章想要阐述、说明的主要内容；
第二部分是文章的主体，可由若干个段落组成，对文章的主题进行展开说明；
第三部分是结尾段，对文章的主题进行归纳总结。这类文章多用一般现在时，而且一般多使用客观性词语表述。有时为了强调客观性，也常使用被动语态。
从近几年的考试题来看，科普环保类的文章越来越与人们的实际生活相接近。由于此类文章缺乏故事情节，很多同学对此类文章感到费解。但一般的科普类文章都是就事论事，需要逻辑推理和想象的时候较少，因此此类阅读题也没有同学们想象中的那么难，只要多加训练，就能较好地答题。
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