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Lesson 2检测题 第二部分 阅读理解 阅读下面短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。 Luong Van Inh is among the Asians threatened by an environmental risk rarely considered: Indoor air pollution caused by burning wood, coal or other cheap fuels in kitchens. It kills about 1.5 million people worldwide each year. 材 Up to 3 billion people around the world depend on solid fuels such as wood, coal, crop waste or animal waste for indoor cooking and heating. The resulting smoke ranks as the fourth-biggest health risk in the poorest countries, yet it’s not paid more attention to. One article stressed that improved stoves with chimneys could reduce exposure (暴露) to indoor smoke by 30 percent to 50 percent. Even World Health Organization (WHO) was surprised by the problem. Earlier this year, the WHO for the first time studied the effects of indoor air pollution on health around the world. In 2002, nearly two-thirds of all global deaths linked to burning solid fuels were in the Asia-Pacific region. Afghanistan, Pakistan and Bangladesh had the highest percentage of death and disease linked to indoor air pollution in Asia, followed by India and Laos. Women and children are the hardest-hit because they抮e at home the most. Mothers in many developing countries cook with their babies tied to their backs. This affects only the poorest, so it抯 easy for the decision-makers who no longer live in this type of community not to even see it. Using improved stoves and cleaner fuels are the good ways to solve the problem, but cost remains a barrier. China started the world抯 largest stove modern-izing effort in the 1980s, handing out up to 180 million new stoves, all with chimneys, over 15 years. The driving force (原动力) was not health, but fuel efficiency (效率), as farmers were running out of cooking fuel. However, in the long run, they need to move to cleaner fuel. 1. What is the main idea of the passage? A. Health is closely related to environment. B. Indoor air pollution threatens people’s health. C. Asians ar