The health effects of smoking cigars is one of eight sections of the article “Cigars: Health Effects and Trends.” The researchers report that, compared with a cigarette, a large cigar emits up to 90 times as much carcinogenic tobacco, specific nitrosamines.
“This article provides clear and invaluable information about the disturbing increase in cigar use and the significant public health consequences for the country,” said Dr. Richard Klausner, director of the National Cancer Institute, in a statement.
“The data are clear—the harmful substances and carcinogens in cigar smoke, 1ike cigarettes, are associated with the increased risks of several kinds of cancers as well as heart and lung diseases,” he added. “In other words, cigars are not safe alternatives to cigarettes and may be addictive.”
“To those individuals who may be thinking about smoking cigars, our advice is—don't. To those currently smoking cigars, quitting is the only way to eliminate completely the cancer, heart and lung disease risks,” warned Klausner.
According to a National Cancer Institute press release, there haven't been any studies on the health effects on nonsmokers at cigar social events. But “…a significant body of evidence clearly demonstrates an increased lung cancer risk from secondhand smoke.”
词汇：
cigar／n. 雪茄烟
double／vt. 使加倍，把……增一倍
esophagus／n. 食管
larynx／n. 喉
esophageal／adj. 食管的
emit／vt. 发出，射出，散发
carcinogenic／adj. 致癌的
nitrosamine／n. 亚硝胺
invaluable／adj. 非常宝贵的，无价的
carcinogen／n. 致癌物
alternative／n. 供替代的抉择
addictive／adj. (使人)上瘾的， (使人)入迷的
eliminate／vt. 排除，消除，根
除
练习：
1. According to the report, smoking three or four cigars a day______
A)increases the risk of oral cancer for non-smokers.
B)greatly increases the risk of oral cancer for smokers.
C)increases the risk of more than one cancer for non-smokers，
D)greatly increases the risk of more than one cancer for smokers.
2. In the passage how many cancers are mentioned in relation to smoking cigars daily?
A)Six.
B)Seven.
C)Eight.
D)Nine.
3. What is the main idea of the article "Cigars: Health Effects and Trends"?
A)When it comes to cancer, cigars are not any safer than cigarettes.
B)Cigars may be addictive while cigarettes are not easily so.
C)Cigars contain less harmful substances than cigarettes.
D)Increase in cigar-smoking does not affect public health much.
4. What is the doctors' advice to those cigar-smokers?
A)To give it up completely.
B)To give up part of it.
C)Not to think about it any more.
D)To cure the diseases first.
5. In the context of this passage, "secondhand smoke" means______
A)smoking bad-quality cigars.
B)smoking very cheap cigars.
C)being near cigar smokers when they are not smoking.
D)being near cigar smokers when they are smoking.
第3篇
Some things we know about language
Many things about language are a mystery, and many will always remain so. But some things we do know.
First, we know that all human beings have a language of some sort. There is no race of men anywhere on earth so backward that it has no language, no set of speech sounds by which the people communicate with one mother. Furthermore, in historical times, there has never been a race of men without a language.
Second, there is no such thing as a primitive language. There are many people whose cultures are undeveloped, who are, as we say, uncivilized, but the languages they speak are not primitive. In all known 1anguages we can see complexities that must have been tens of thousands of years in developing.
This has not always been well understood; indeed, the direct contrary has often been stated. Popular ideas of the 1anguage of the American Indians will illustrate. Many people have supposed that the Indians communicated in a very primitive system of noises. Study has proved this to be nonsense. There are, or were, hundreds of American Indian languages, and a11 of them turn out to be very complicated and very old. They are certainly different from the languages that most of us are familiar with, but they are no more primitive five than English and Greek.
A third thing we know about language is that all languages are perfectly adequate. That is, each one is a perfect means of expressing the culture of the people who speak the language.
Finally, we know that language changes. It is natural and normal for language to change; the only languages which do not change are the dead ones. This is easy to understand if we look backward in time. Change goes on in all aspects of language. Grammatical features change as do speech sounds, and changes in vocabulary are sometimes very extensive and may occur very rapidly. Vocabulary is the least stable part of any language.
词汇：
race／n. 种族
primitive／adj. 原始的
uncivilized／adj. 不开化的，落后的
complexity／n. 复杂性，复杂现象
nonsense／n. 胡说，没有根据的话
extensive／adj. 广泛的
vocabulary／n. 词汇
练习：
1.In the second paragraph the author thinks that______
A)some backward race doesn't have a language of its own.
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