Write the Chinese version on your Answer Sheet 46. (When smoking amongst women was not as widespread as it is now, women were considered to be almost free from cardiovascular diseases and lungcancer. Unhappily, the situation has changed, and smoking kills over half a millionwomen each year in the industrialized world.) But it is also an increasinglyimportant cause ofill health amongst women in developing countries.
在女性吸烟不像现在这样普遍的时候,人们认为女性几乎不会患心血管疾病和肺癌。不幸的是,这种情况已经发生改变。在工业化国家吸烟每年会夺去五十多万女性的生命。