There is no doubt that air pollution is a global crisis: it causes an annual death【C1】______of 6.5 million. That is double the t

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问题    There is no doubt that air pollution is a global crisis: it causes an annual death【C1】______of 6.5 million. That is double the total number of people lost【C2】______HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria【C3】______, and four times the number killed on the world’s roads. Half the early deaths result from outdoor air pollution that is far more dispersed and harder to【C4】______.
   Air pollution has increased the【C5】______of mental illness, diabetes and kidney disease. It is even thought to be prematurely ageing the faces of city dwellers by accelerating wrinkles and age【C6】______. What’s worse, almost 90% of the world’s children live where outdoor air pollution【C7】______WHO limits.
   Increasing efforts【C8】______global warming by cutting the fossil fuel consumption will help cut air pollution. Some major world cities are also doing something【C9】______traffic smog by setting dates【C10】______the worst polluting cars will be banned. The huge cuts in health costs that could be achieved with cleaner air are becoming better understood.
【C3】

选项 A、combined
B、united
C、integrated
D、connected

答案A

解析 combine:把……结合,与……结合;unite:联合,如the United Nations;integrate:使……成为一个整体;connect:连接,结合。combined可用在名词后表示“……之和”,相当于put together,如…equals the size of France and Germany combined(等于法国和德国面积之和)。“三个臭皮匠,顶个诸葛亮”的经典译文是Three cobblers with their wits combined equal Zhuge Liang,the master mind。
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