首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
考研
The 20th century may have been the age of scientific advancement but, as the new millennium begins, (1)_____ world health the pr
The 20th century may have been the age of scientific advancement but, as the new millennium begins, (1)_____ world health the pr
admin
2010-02-22
74
问题
The 20th century may have been the age of scientific advancement but, as the new millennium begins, (1)_____ world health the progress has been surprisingly slow.
Who would believe that there is still no (2)_____ for cancer, that 100 years on diarrhea is still on the top 10 lists of world-wide killers and that tuberculosis usually (3)_____. Victorian squalor—would have reemerged in the West (4)_____ growing threat?
The fact is that despite growing life (5)_____ and economic growth, a billion people entered the 21st century (6)_____ having a share in medical advances—their lives (7)_____ or scarred by disease.
According to the World Health Organization’s latest report, diarrhea killed 2.2m people in 1998 and yet it is a condition that can easily be (8)_____ through cheap rehydration therapy. It was the sixth biggest killer of 1998, an honour shared with stillbirth and infant deaths (9)_____ cause of death that smacks of the 19th (10)_____ 21st century.
WHO’s top 10 killers list can almost be divided down the middle (11)_____ infectious diseases—a feature of low income countries—and non-communicable disease, such as cancer and heart trouble, (12)_____ in wealthy nations.
How we die is an indicator of our (13)_____. In the rich West it is from cancer, cardiovascular disease and psychiatric illnesses (14)_____ In poor countries infectious diseases are still the biggest killers.
It is almost (15)_____ those of us who don’t have to worry about poverty have brought ill-health upon ourselves. (16)_____ once we would hunt and walk, we now remain sedentary, smoke heavily and put ourselves at (17)_____ of heart disease and cancer.
While we don’t need to use all our energies (18)_____ where the next meal will come from we have more time to (19)_____ on existential is sues, relationships and our standards of living. Perhaps it’s no coincidence that (20)_____ is three times more likely to cause loss of healthy years in Europe and the US than in Africa.
选项
A、power
B、strength
C、wealth
D、health
答案
C
解析
本题要求联系上下文作正确的推断。上文中提到十大致命疾病分为两半,一半具有低收入国家特征是传染性疾病,另一半流行于富有国家是非传染性疾病;下文也讲到,富裕国家的人易死于癌病、心血管等非传染性疾病,贫穷国家的人易死于传染性疾病。因此,人们如何死去的标志是wealth。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/EG44777K
0
考研英语一
相关试题推荐
Itisallverywelltoblametrafficjams,thecostofpetrolandthequickpaceofmodernlife,butmannersontheroadsarebe
Itisallverywelltoblametrafficjams,thecostofpetrolandthequickpaceofmodernlife,butmannersontheroadsarebe
Morethan45millionAmericansnowbelongtoahealthclub.Wespendsome$19billionayearongymmemberships.Ofcourse,some
Duringthelast15years,theEarth’ssurfacetemperatureroseatarateof0.04°Cadecade,farslowerthanthe0.18℃increase
Duringthelast15years,theEarth’ssurfacetemperatureroseatarateof0.04°Cadecade,farslowerthanthe0.18℃increase
Peopleusedtothinkthatlearningtwolanguagescreatedconfusioninthemind.Far【C1】________itwasthought,togetone
TheaverageBritishpeoplegetsix-and-a-halfhours’sleepanight,accordingtotheSleepCouncil.Ithasbeenknownforsomet
Fordecadesthemarketforexpensiveheadphoneswasmainlylimitedtohi-fifans.But【C1】________theboxystereosysteminthec
[A]CrisisSeemsFar[B]TheFirmIsatRisk[C]MoreRivalsJoinin[D]NaturalFoodsAreUnreal[E]StopBuyin
Themostpowerfulfalse-newsweaponinhistoryisaroundthecorner.Iftechnologycontinuesitscurrentadvance,wemaysoonfa
随机试题
y=2ln+1的水平渐近线是_______.
避孕套在正确使用下,成功避孕的概率可高达
A.增塑剂B.致孔剂C.着色剂D.遮光剂E.润滑剂用于改善水不溶性薄膜衣的释药速度的是()。
我国公民广义的人身自由包括()
公路电力供电应根据用电容量、工程特点和()来选用地方可靠电源。
甲公司是一家生产和销售钢铁的A股上市公司,其母公司为XYZ集团公司,甲公司为实现规模化经营、提升市场竞争力,多次通过资本市场融资成功进行了同行业并购,迅速扩大和提高了公司的生产能力和技术创新能力,奠定了公司在钢铁行业的地位,实现了跨越式发展,在一系列并购过
某县县委组织部、县纪委、县土地管理局、某镇人民政府组成联合调查小组,调查处理某县违法占用土地问题。联合调查小组对张某作出了处理决定,没收其在非法占用的土地上所建的楼房。处理决定是以四单位联合发文的形式作出的,并且加盖了四单位的公章。李某不服,申请复议。本案
TheDisturbingStateofAmerican’sHealthIfAmericanshavebeenslowtorealizethedisturbingstateofourcollectiveheal
Thepriceofhousingvarieswithdemand,andthesameruleseemstoholdforautomobiles.
WhatdidSelinafinddifficultaboutthedifferentresearchtechniquessheused?ChooseFIVEanswersfromtheboxandwritethe
最新回复
(
0
)