金沢医科大学英語2013年第6問

次の英文を読み、問いに答えなさい。

In Helena, Montana, in June 2002, the community $\fbox{29}$ to ban smoking in all public places, including restaurants, bars, and casinos. Shortly thereafter, physicians at the local hospital observed that admissions for heart attacks were declining, and they initiated a study with the cooperation of the University of California at San Francisco to find out why. They determined that there was no change in heart attack rates for patients who lived outside the city, but that a 58 percent reduction in rates had occurred for city residents in only six months following the smoking ban. The researchers concluded that the reduction was largely due $\fbox{30}$ the exposure of nonsmoker to cigarette smoke in public places. Smokers affect the quality of air breathed in by everyone in enclosed locations like homes, offices, automobiles, bars, and restaurants. The most responsible thing is the irritant^* and carcinogenic^* material (“tar”) released by burning tobacco in the smoke that is breathed in by both smokers and the nonsmokers around (ア)them.

This is why second-hand or passive smoking is so dangerous. Eight hours of working in a smoky bar is the $\fbox{31}$ of smoking a pack of cigarettes a day. Nonsmokers who work in such places are twice as likely to develop lung cancer than nonsmokers working elsewhere. Only 30 minutes exposure to second-hand smoke causes blood to become stickier which makes it easier to form clots^* that can block arteries^* and cause heart attacks. As a consequence, New York City banned smoking in bars and restaurants in 2003. Ireland banned smoking in bars and all public places in 2004 and the city of San Francisco did similarly in 2005. $\fbox{32}$ the Montana State Legislature, under pressure from the tobacco industry and the Montana Bar Association, cancelled the smoking ban in Helena in December 2002. Heart attack 《イ》【 $\fbox{34}$ $\fbox{35}$ 】down. The current situation in Helena is abandon smoking in restaurants and public places if persons under the age of 18 years frequently visit the premises. But smoking is allowed in places such as bars if persons under 18 are denied entry.

irritant 刺激物
carcinogenic 発がん性の
clots 血塊
arteries 動脈（複数形）

(1) 文章中の$\fbox{29}$～$\fbox{32}$に入る最も適切な語句を、それぞれ(a)～(e)から1つ選びなさい。
- - (a) presumed
  - (b) wondered
  - (c) considered
  - (d) persuaded
  - (e) voted
- - (a) preventing
  - (b) for prevention
  - (c) to prevent
  - (d) to preventing
  - (e) to have prevented
- - (a) same
  - (b) equivalent
  - (c) similar
  - (d) opponent
  - (e) resembling
- - (a) Because
  - (b) Therefore,
  - (c) However,
  - (d) In spite of
  - (e) Contrary to
(2) 下線部(ア)themが指しているものを、(a)～(f)から1つ選びなさい。$\fbox{33}$
- (a) researchers
- (b) public places
- (c) enclosed locations
- (d) homes, offices, automobiles, bats, and restaurants
- (e) materials
- (f) smokers
(3) 《イ》の空欄に入る(a)～(e)の語句を並べかえて文を完成させ、$\fbox{34}$、$\fbox{35}$に入る語句を、番号で答えなさい。
- (a) they had come
- (b) in the city
- (c) as quickly as
- (d) rates
- (e) jumped up almost
(4) 本文の内容合わない英文を、(a)～(g)から3つ選びなさい。$\fbox{36}$
- (a) The results of the study revealed that there was no difference in the number of heart attacks for people who lived outside the city.
- (b) Although the smoking ban was cancelled in Helena, smoking is still prohibited for people over 18 years old.
- (c) Local hospital doctors in Helena noticed that the number of patients admitted to the hospital for heart attacks had decreased.
- (d) People who work in smoke-filled environments are more likely to suffer from lung cancer and heart attacks than nonsmokers working in smoke-free environments.
- (e) For city residents, heart attack rates went down to only 58 percent in half a year after smoking was banned.
- (f) New York was one of the states that banned smoking in all public places including bars and restaurants in 2005.
- (g) Just a half an hour exposure to tobacco smoke increases the possibility of heart attacks.