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山东省枣庄市2019届高三上学期英语期末考试试卷（含小段音频）
Air pollution is a killer. The World Health Organization says it kills an estimated seven million people around the world each year. , it can make us very sick.
However, breathing dirty air may do more than hurt your body. .A new study shows that air pollution can cause a “huge” reduction in our intelligence. The researchers reposed that long-time exposure to air pollution can affect a person's mental abilities in two areas: language and mathematics.
.Between 2010 and 2014, these Chinese men, women and children were given language and math tests. Then they compared the test results with measurements of pollution in the air, namely nitrogen dioxide and sulfur dioxide, and found that breathing polluted air can reduce a person's education level by about one year.
It has found that the effect generally is worse for those over 64 years of age, for men and for those with little or no education.
“ .And we find, quite interestingly, males are more affected than females. And people working outdoors are more affected than people working indoors, ”one of researchers said.
He noted that the youngest people in the study were 10 years old, while the oldest was 90.They came from 25 of China'S 33 provinces..
The researchers also noted that the effect of pollution on verbal ability is even more serious as people age, especially among men and the less educated.
A. Even if polluted air does not kill us
B. The elderly people are more affected
C. Therefore, some measures should be taken
D. Air pollution is one of the major problems of China
E. It can also affect your brain and your ability to think
F. The researchers studied about 25, 000 people across China
G. This range of ages and locations provided a “good representative sample”
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