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believe that there’s a definite between smoking and bronchial troubles, heart
disease and lung cancer, then you are certainly deceiving yourself. No one will
accuse you of hypocrisy. Let us just say that you are suffering from a bad case
of wishful thinking. This needn’t make you too uncomfortable because you are in
good company. Whenever the subject of smoking and health is raised, the
governments of most countries hear no evil, see no evil and smell no evil.
Admittedly, a few governments have taken timid measures. In Britain, for
example, cigarette advertising has been banned on television. The conscience of
the nation is appeased, while the population continues to puff its way to smoky,
cancerous death. You don’t have to look very far to find out why the official reactions to medical findings have been so lukewarm. The A. give up the habit of smoking immediately. B. word governments should conduct serious campaigns against smoking. C. go on with anti-smoking lobby vigorously. D. world governments should allocate more funds on cancer researches. [单项选择]A. It’s a pleasure. B. I don’ think so.
C. No, I don’t care about it. D. I’m sorry you didn’t. [简答题]Nowadays, we have technology that’s improved so that we can bring people back to life. In fact, there are drugs being developed right now -- who knows if they’ll ever make it to the market — that may actually slow down the process of brain-cell injury and death. Imagine you fast-forward to 10 years down the line; and you’ve given a patient, whose heart has just stopped, this amazing drug; and actually what it does is, it slows everything down so that the things that would’ve happened over an hour, now happen over two days. As medicine progresses, we will end up with lots and lots of ethical questions.
But what is happening to the individual at that time What’s really going on Because there is a lack of blood flow, the cells go into a kind of a frenzy to keep themselves alive．And within about 5 min. or so they start to damage or change. After an hour or so the damage is so great that even if we restart the heart again and pump blood, the person can no longer be viable, because the [单项选择]The discrepancy in the company accounts is （）so that no auditor could have failed to notice it.
A. spontaneous B. conspicuous C. notorious D. superfluous [单项选择] {{B}}TEXT D{{/B}}
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