Noise constitutes a real and present danger to people’s health. Day and nigh

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问题     Noise constitutes a real and present danger to people’s health. Day and night, at home, at work, and at play, noise can produce serious physical and 【C1】_____ stress. No one is 【C2】_____ to this stress.
    Though we seem to 【C3】_____ to noise by ignoring it, the ear, in 【C4】_____, never closes and the body still responds—sometimes with extreme tension— 【C5】_____ a strange sound in the night.
    The 【C6】_____ we feel when faced with noise is the most common outward disease of the stress 【C7】_____ inside us. The more 【C8】_____ and more serious health hazards 【C9】_____ with the stress caused by noise traditionally have been given much less attentioa 【C10】______, when we are annoyed or made irritable by stress, we should consider these 【C11】_____ fair warning that other things may be happening to us, some of which may be damaging our health.
     【C12】_____ all health hazards of noise, hearing 【C13】_____ is most clearly observable and measurable by health professionals. The other hazards are 【C14】_____ to identify. For many of us, there may be a risk that 【C15】_____ to stress of noise increases 【C16】_____ to disease and infection. The more susceptible among us may experience noise as a 【C17】_____ factor in heart problems and other diseases. Noise that causes annoyance and irritability in healthy persons may have more serious consequences for those already ill in mind and body. However, the link between noise and many disabilities or diseases has not yet been
     【C18】_____ demonstrated, and we tend to 【C19】_____ annoyance caused by noise as a 【C20】_____ to pay for living in the modern world. [br] 【C19】

选项 A、refuse
B、dismiss
C、reject
D、discharge

答案 B

解析 考查语篇内动词的含义。此处指“我们趋向于忽略……”,dismiss“摒除,去除”引申为从心情中去除,符合文意,为正确答案。refuse和reject都有“拒绝”之义,前者强调不情愿做或接受,后者比较正式,指拒绝不适应、不满足和所厌恶的东西;discharge“放出,偿还”,均不符合文意,可排除。
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