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Air pollution by sources ranging from cooking fires to auto smoke contriButed to an estimated seven million deaths worldwide in 2012，the UN health agency said Tuesday. “Air pollution, and we，re talking about both indoors and outdoors, is now the biggest environmental health problem, and it’s affecting everyone, both developed and developing countries,” said Maria Neira, the World Health Organization’s public and environmental health chief.

Globally, pollution was linked to one death in eight in 2012，new WHO research found. The biggest pollution-related killers were heart disease, stroke, pulmonary (肺的）disease and lung cancer. The hardest-hit regions of the globe were what the WHO labels Southeast Asia, which includes India and Indonesia, and the Western Pacific, ranging from China and South Korea to Japan and the Philippines. Together, they accounted for 5.9 million deaths. The global death toll included 4.3 million deaths due to indoor air pollution, chiefly caused by cooking over coal and wood stoves and so on. The toll from outdoor pollution was 3.7 million, with sources ranging from coal heating fires to gas engines.

Many people are exposed to both indoor and outdoor pollution, the WHO said, and due to that overlap (重疊）the separate death toll attributed to the two sources cannot simply be added together, therefore the figure of seven million deaths. The new figure is shocking, Neira told reporters. When it

last released an estimate for deaths related to air pollution, in 2008，the agency had put the figure related to outdoor pollution at 1.3 million, while the number blamed on indoor pollution was 1.9 million.

But a change in research methods makes comparison difficult between the 2008 estimate and the 2012 figures, Neira said. In the past, for example, the WHO did not take into account the overlap between exposure to both forms, and only assessed urban pollution. Satellite imagery has made it easier to assess rural pollution, and new knowledge about the health impact of exposure has enabled a better count.

28. We can infer from Paragraph 1 that .

A. air pollution only comes from cooking fires and vehicle smoke

B. air pollution has caused a big disaster to the whole world

C. health problem must have come from air pollution

D. air pollution are mainly affecting the developing countries

29. Which of the following has nothing to do with serious air pollution?

A. AIDS.

B. Heart disease.

C. Stroke.

D. Lung cancer.

30. What is the meaning of the underlined word “labels” in Paragraph 2?

A. Launches.