四,六级讲义--2011年秋季大学英语六级考试强化讲义.pdfVIP

2011年秋季大学英语六级考试强化讲义 主讲：张　培 阅读理解部分 Smoking Will Kill 1 Billion People By TIFFANY SHARPLES One billion people will die from tobacco-related causes by the end of the century if current consumption trends continue, according to a global report released Thursday by the World Health Organization (WHO). At a press conference held in midtown Manhattan , N ew York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, whose charitable organization, Bloomberg Philanthropies, contributed $2 million to conduct the study, j oined top WHO officials to present the findings. Among the litany of sobering statistics: 5.4 million people die each year — one every six seconds — from lung cancer, heart disease or other illness directly linked to tobacco use. Smoking killed 100 million people in the 20th century, and the yearly death toll could pass 8 million as soon as 2030 — 80% of those deaths will be in the developing world, where tobacco use is growing most rapidly. Were on a collision course, said Dr. Douglas Bettcher, director of WHOs Tobacco Free Initiative. If the unveiling of the report felt more like an assault, it was meant to. Built into the reports six primary policy goals was a directive to countries to warn people about the many dangers of tobacco. Another of the studys main obj ectives was to get countries to assess their tobacco consumption . If you cant measure a problem, you obviously cant manage it, said Mayor Bloomberg, who banned smoking in New York Citys restaurants and bars in 2003. The 369WHO Report on the Global Tobacco Epidemic, 2008, bound like a high school yearbook and bundled with a cigarette pack of colored markers, called on governments to adhere to six tobacco control policies it calls MPOWER : monitor tobacco use; protect people from secondhand smoke; offer