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一Wine cuts smoking damage 红酒可以缓解吸烟伤害1.___________(smoke) cigarettes is bad for you. But if you're going to smoke anyway, medical researchers recommend that you2._________have some red wine beforehand. According to a newly published study, adequate drinking of red wine can help stave off some of the immediate damage3.________smoking does to your vascular system.In the study, researchers looked at the biochemical 4._________( effect ) of smoking on 20 healthy nonsmokers. The researchers found that wine drinkers didn't suffer the changes in their vascular systems that generally 5._____________(cause) by smoking, such as inflammation and cell damage.6._______________(addition) , drinking wine before smoking also reduced harm7._______(do) to the telomeres (端粒), the 8._______________(protect) caps on the cells' chromosomes (染色体).V ocabularyanyway /ˈeniweɪ/ adv. 无论如何，不管怎样recommend /ˌrekəˈmend/ vt. 推荐，介绍beforehand /bɪˈfɔːrhænd/ adj. 提前的；预先准备好的adequate /ˈædɪkwət/ adj. 充足的；适当的stave off 避开；延缓immediate /ɪˈmiːdiət/ adj. 立即的；直接的biochemical /ˌbaɪoʊˈkemɪkl/ adj. 生物化学的generally /ˈdʒenrəli/ adv. 通常；普遍地inflammation /ˌɪnfləˈmeɪʃn/ n. [病理] 炎症；[医] 发炎cell /sel/n. 细胞additionallyadv. 此外；又，加之do harm tosuffer vt. 遭受；忍受；经历二Families of Victims in Kobe Bryant Helicopter Crash File Wrongful Death Suit 科比直升机坠毁事件的受害者家属提起了非正常死亡责任诉讼TMZ has learned that the surviving members of the Altobelli and Mauser families have filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the helicopter company behind the January 26 crash 1. ______ also killed Kobe Bryant and his 13-year-old daughter Gianna.The suit claims the helicopter company, Island Express, “negligently and carelessly breached its duty to own, lease（出租）, manage, maintain, control, entrust, charter and operate the helicopter in question in a r easonable manner.”The crash claimed the 2. _______(life) of John Altobelli, his wife Keri, and their daughter Alyssa, who played in the Mamba Sports Academy with Gianna. The Altobelli family is survived by their remaining two children. Christina Mauser, who was a coach at the Mamba Academy, leaves behind 3. _______husband, son, and two daughters.Island Express is 4. _____________(accuse) of negligence by the remaining loved ones, who are seeking damages 5. ________(cause) by “an insurmountable amount of anguish on every level - physical, emotional, mental and otherwise.”The company was already expected to go bankrupt as 6. ____result of the lawsuit filed by Vanessa Bryant against them for the reckless behavior of pilot Ara Zobayan, who was also killed in crash. Even though Zobayan had been a longtime pilot for Bryant, Vanessa claims that he should have never been allowed 7. _______(take ) flight that fateful day, 8. ______the inclement weather wasn’t conducive to flying.In 9. ________(respond) to Vanessa’s suit from February, Island Express called the crash a “tragic accident.” Since then, LAPD spokesperson Josh Rubenstein said the Air Support Division grounded its helicopters 10. _____ the morning of January 26 due to poor visibility in the skies. “The weather situation did not meet our minimum standards for flying,” Rubenstein said.lawsuit 诉讼（尤指非刑事案件）breach /briːtʃ/v. 违背，违反lease /liːs/出租maintain /meɪnˈteɪn/ vt. 维持；继续；维修entrust /ɪnˈtrʌst/ vt. 委托，信托charter /ˈtʃɑːrtər/ v. 包租；发给特许执照claim /kleɪm/ v. 夺去（生命）；宣称；要求，crash /kræʃ/ v. 碰撞；（使）坠毁negligence /ˈneɡlɪdʒəns/ n. 疏忽；忽视go bankrupt破产reckless /ˈrekləs/ adj. 鲁莽的，不顾后果的fateful /ˈfeɪtfl/ adj. 重大的宿命的，该死的inclement /ɪnˈklemənt/ adj. 天气恶劣的；气候严酷的tragic /ˈtrædʒɪk/ adj. 悲剧的；悲痛的visibility /ˌvɪzəˈbɪləti/ n. 能见度，可见性三Out of a Drawer Comes a Vicious Ancient BeastOhio University biologist Nancy Stevens was looking through a drawer of a1.__________(wood) container at a museum in Kenya when she saw a piece of rock with2._____________(extreme) large teeth . She know immediately she had come across something important.The "rock" and other things she found 3.__________________(overlook) fossils. They were stored at the National Museums of Kenya, in the capital city of Nairobi. The fossils came from one of 4.______________(large) meat-eating mammals ever to walk the Earth. They belonged to an animal known 5._____Simbakubwa kutokaafrika. It lived in Africa 22 million years ago.The animal was bigger than any meat-eating mammal alive today. Its skull was the size of a rhino's skull. 6._______(it )teeth were as large as bananas. It weighed about one ton and was 2.5 meters long.According to the research, the fossils were found around 1980 in western Kenya. But, they were never closely examined. Stevens said, "Most of the specimens I study are quite small, so you can imagine my surprise when I opened a drawer I hadn't examined yet, and saw the enormous teeth." Simbakubwa was a member of a animal group 7.______ appeared 62 million years ago. That was about 4 million years after the 8.______________(extinct) of the dinosaurs, which created an environment for mammals to take over. The animal came before meat-eating cats and 9.__________(wolf) .It 10. ___________(become) extinct about 9 million years ago, researchers say. Simbakubwa's name means "big lion" in the Swahili language. However, it is not a cat. It was the largest animal hunter in its ecosystem, and was probably the largest meat-eating land mammal in Africa up to that time.Relative vocabularydrawer /drɔr/ n. 抽屉come across偶遇；无意中发现overlook /ˌəʊvəˈlʊk/检查，忽视fossil /ˈfɑːsl/ n. 化石store/stɔːr/ n. 商店；vt. 贮藏，储存mammal /ˈmæml/ n. [脊椎] 哺乳动物belong to 属于skull /skʌl/ n. 头盖骨，脑壳weigh /weɪ/ n. 权衡；称重量vt. 权衡；考虑；称…重量enormous/ɪˈnɔːrməs/ adj. 庞大的，巨大的extinct/ɪkˈstɪŋkt/ adj. 灭绝的take over接管；接收四丧偶大象何去何从The last African elephant at the Johannesburg Zoo, Lammie,1. _______(lose )her male partner to a sickness in September.Lammie was born in the zoo 39 years ago. She had lived for 17 years with Kinkel, who died at age 35. Around the time of her partner's 2.________(die) on Sept. 4, Lammie had stopped eating. The day before Kinkel died, she was seen 3.________(try) to help him get up.Elephants are known for their intelligence, strong social ties and even the 4._______(able) to mourn. Some people argue Lammie should 5._______(send) to another place 6.______she can be with other elephants.Audrey Delsink is wildlife director of Humane Society International/Africa. She said Lammie is in desperate need of a happier 7.___________(exist) and the chance to live out her years with other elephants. Delsink added that a wildlife rescue place is ready to take Lammie if the Johannesburg Zoo agrees to let her go.But the zoo says Lammie is staying. The zoo says it serves an educational purpose, especially for the poor who cannot pay to visit wildlife parks.Michele Pickover disagrees. She is director of the EMS Foundation, a South Africa-based African wildlife rights group. She said nobody learns anything by seeing an elephant in captivity. She said that8.____________(watch) a film about elephants would be more educational.But, a spokeswoman for the Johannesburg Zoo, Jenny Moodley, says it is looking for a new partner for Lammie. She added that experts are 9. ________(close) observing Lammie and that the elephant might not adapt well 10. ____ a new environment.Moodley said of Lammie: She is coping incredibly well, considering that she has lost her partner.Important vocabularyintelligence /ɪnˈtelɪdʒəns/n. 智力mourn /mɔːrn/v. 哀悼；忧伤desperate/ˈdespərət/adj. 不顾一切的；令人绝望的；极度渴望的serve /sɜːrv/ vi. 服役，服务做为in captivity /kæpˈtɪvəti/人工驯养,受限制的,在囚禁的look for寻找observe /əbˈzɜːrv/vt. 观察；遵守；说；注意到；评论vt. 庆祝incredibly/ɪnˈkredəbli/adv. 难以置信地；非常地cope /kəʊp/ 处理cope withconsidering /kənˈsɪdərɪŋ/prep. 考虑到答案：一. 1. smoking 2. should 3. that 4. effects 5. are caused 6. Additionally 7. done 8. protective二. 1. that 2. lives 3. her 4. being accused 5. caused 6. a 7. to take 8. since9.response 10. on三. 1.Wooden ,2.extremely ,3.were overlooked, 4.the largest, 5.as 6.Its 7.that8.extinction 9.wolves 10. became四1.Lost 2.death 3.trying 4. ability5. be sent 6.where 7. existence 8.watching 9.closely 10. to。