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14.   Unlike the acid smoke of cigarettes, pipe tobacco, cured by age-old methods, yields an alkaline smoke too irritating to be drawn into the lungs.

(A) Unlike the acid smoke of cigarettes, pipe tobacco, cured by age-old methods, yields an alkaline smoke

(B) Unlike the acid smoke of cigarettes, pipe tobacco is cured by age-old methods, yielding an alkaline smoke

(C) Unlike cigarette tobacco, which yields an acid smoke, pipe tobacco, cured by age-old methods, yields an alkaline smoke

(D) Differing from cigarettes’ acid smoke, pipe tobacco’s alkaline smoke, cured by age-old methods, is（C）

(E) The alkaline smoke of pipe tobacco differs from cigarettes’ acid smoke in that it is cured by age-old methods and is

Choice A and B illogically compare the acid smoke of cigarettes with pipe tobacco, not with the smoke from pipe tobacco. B is also faulty for making the curing methods rather than the nature of the smoke the basis of comparison. Choice C is best , for it compares cigarette tobacco with pipe tobacco in terms of the type of smoke each produces. Choices D and E garble the intended meaning by saying that the smoke of pipe tobacco is cured b age-old methods. Moreover, the phrasing is less compact and idiomatic than Unlike is for expressing a contrast. This is a difficult question.

what's the meaning of "pipe tabacco'? 我觉得是烟管的香烟。why "pipe tabacco" can be cured by age-old mathod?, can anyone translate "pipe tobacco, cured by age-old methods"?

cigarette - 香烟(即：我们平时看到的那种一盒一盒的)；

tobacco - 烟草(即：种在土里的那种植物，或者收割后的晒干的那种草一样的东西)；

cigarette tobacco - 指那种用于制造cigarette的tobacco；而pipe tobacco - 指那种用于pipe(烟枪吸食)的tobacco；

pipe tobacco, cured by age-old methods - 用于pipe的那种烟草，是由古老的方法加工处理的(cure在这里解释为：制作；制备，而不是‘治愈’)