题文
阅读理解。 Residents of Golestan Province in northern Iran have one of the highest rates of esophageal cancer (食道癌) in the world. They don't drink alcohol or smoke-the two primary risk factors for the disease in the west-
but they do consume tea, nearly 1.2 liters per day, on average. So local researchers set out looking for a
connection.
They employed 300 esophageal cancer patients who were diagnosed in the eastern part of Golestan and
matched them up with 571 healthy controls who shared their age, gender and place of residence. All but one
of them drank tea, and they gave interviewers information about their tea consumption and brewing habits.
Teaming up with investigators from the U.S., England, France and Sweden, the researchers calculated
that people who said they drank "hot" tea (149 to 156 degrees Fahrenheit) were more than twice as likely to
develop esophageal cancer as people who said they drank the beverage "warm" or "lukewarm" (less than 140
degrees). Those who said they took their tea"very hot" (at least 158 degrees) were more than eight times as
likely to get esophageal cancer, according to the study, published online Thursday in the British Medical
Journal.
The scientists have now connected it with esophageal cancer. The problem doesn't appear to be the tea
itself, but the temperature at which it is consumed, their study found.
The researchers also asked people how long they waited to drink their tea after pouring it. Those who
said they waited two to three minutes were nearly 2.5 times more likely to develop the cancer compared
with people who said they waited at least four minutes. Impatient tea drinkers who waited less than two
minutes were 5.4 times as likely to be diagnosed with esophageal cancer, the study found.
The study didn't assess the mechanism linking hot tea to esophageal cancer, but the researchers said
the temperature of the liquid was almost certainly to blame rather than the compounds in the tea itself. 1. According to the passage, _____ were thought to be two main causes of esophageal cancer. A. drinking hot tea and smoking
B. drinking alcohol and smoking
C. working in the kitchen and smoking
D. taking sunbaths and drinking alcohol 2. The underlined word "it" in Paragraph 4 probably refers to _____. A. the tea they drink
B. the way people drink tea
C. the temperature of the tea
D. the properties of the tea 3. We can infer from the second paragraph that _____. A. drinking tea causes the cancer
B. few people drink tea in that area
C. 300 out of 571 people got the cancer
D. tea has no direct connection with the cancer 4. Which would be the best title for this passage? A. Drinking Tea with Patience
B. An Esophageal Cancer Stricken Area
C. Temperature and Esophageal Cancer
D. Various Causes of Cancer 题型：未知难度：其他题型
答案
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健康环保类文章阅读技巧：
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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；
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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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