問題詳情

When the federal government announced last week that youth e-cigarette use tripled in just one year, surpassingthe use of traditional cigarettes, the reaction was appropriately strong. “A wake-up call,” said one commentator,___1___others.E-cigarettes have so far escaped federal regulation and are being promoted using the same playbook cigarettecompanies have used to ___2___ generations of teenagers. These marketing tactics include celebrity endorsements,slick TV and magazine ads that portray e-cigarette use ___3___ glamorous or masculine, sponsorships of race carsand music festivals and the use of sweet flavors like gummy bear and cotton candy.The Food and Drug Administration has been empowered to regulate all tobacco products since 2009. Six yearslater, there is still ___4___ on the books governing e-cigarettes. Although a proposed regulation is wending its waythrough the bureaucracy, it is unclear ___5___ it will be finalized, or in what form.Leaving these issues unaddressed is a big mistake. The cigarette industry has long understood that ___6___ allnew tobacco users in the United States are children and that if it doesn't hook them as kids, it probably never will. Wecan't let the e-cigarette industry ___7___.Many of us who are veterans of the long, hard fight against the powerful tobacco industry are deeply alarmed bythe rapid rise in youth use of e-cigarettes, and our nation's health regulators should ___8___ as well. From the"Mad Men" era on, we as a nation fought to ___9.___ cigarette smoking. It worked. In the last 15 years, the smokingrate for high school students fell by 67 percent to a record low 9.2 percent.It's still an open question whether e-cigarettes area pathway to other tobacco products or may help adultsmokers protect their health ___10____. But we should be able to agree on one thing: Kids should not usee-cigarettes or any tobacco product.We cannot afford to waste more time while the tobacco industry addicts another generation of kids.
1.
(A) blaming
(B) echoing
(C) startling
(D) reproaching

參考答案

答案：B
難度：適中0.405405
統計：A(6),B(15),C(10),D(5),E(0)

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