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(1)Almost 60% of five-year-olds in some of Britain’s poorest areas do not reach a "good level" of behaviour and understanding—do
(1)Almost 60% of five-year-olds in some of Britain’s poorest areas do not reach a "good level" of behaviour and understanding—do
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2021-10-20
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(1)Almost 60% of five-year-olds in some of Britain’s poorest areas do not reach a "good level" of behaviour and understanding—double that found in wealthier suburban parts of England, a review into Britain’s widening social and health inequalities says.
(2)Inequalities in children’s development between local authorities are revealed by data published by Sir Michael Marmot, professor of epidemiology (流行病学) and public health at University College London, who last year produced a landmark government review into how wealth affects health. The key determinants of health, he argues, relate to a host of issues including employment, the welfare state and child development.
(3)His new report shows that 44% of all five-year-olds in England are considered by their teachers to be falling behind in their development. However in commuter towns, such as Solihull and Richmond upon Thames, state schools report this figure to be about 30%. In Haringey, a deprived part of north London, it is almost double.
(4)Marmot, a public health specialist and author of Fair Society, Healthy Lives, said: "The evidence is very clear: investing in pre-school years pays most dividends. We already know that by the age of 10 a child from a poorer background will have lost any advantage of intelligence indicated at 22 months, whereas a child from an affluent family will have improved his or her cognitive scores purely because of his/her advantaged background."
(5)He pointed out that "education and child development are key for health. It is the educated who stop smoking... we know the key driver of teenage pregnancy is not getting early child development. You are not going to get pregnant as a teenager if you develop as a child."
(6)Only two dozen authorities of the 150 surveyed could claim to have more than half their five-year-olds passing the educational standard set by the government. Marmot said he was concerned that the government was just focusing on the "poorest" in society—the middle class of society needed help too. "I have tried to have this conversation with government without much success," he said, adding that "cuts to Sure Start and children’s centres won’t help".
(7)There was also an alarming health gap opening up within areas. Marmot pointed out that in Westminster the average life expectancy of male residents was 83, five years longer than the English norm, but this masked wide differences. The poorest in the London borough could expect to live 17 years less than the richest.
(8)Not only is life expectancy linked to social standing, so is the time spent in good health. The review reveals that Wirral, in north-west England, has the biggest difference in "disability-free life expectancy" between those at the top and those at the bottom of the economic ladder, with wealthy people likely to live 20 years longer without physical impairment.
(9)The data is meant to inform ministers as the government has proposed taking public health out of the National Health Service and put under the control of local authorities.
(10)Marmot pointed out that the city council in Birmingham, a conurbation with large areas of poverty, had successfully raised the number of five-year-old attaining a good level of behaviour and understanding from 38% to 55% in five years.
(11)However Jim McManus, Birmingham’s joint director of public health, said that the "single most effective measure to deal with inequalities had been about £50m spent to improve social housing in the city... We know it’s a new financial environment and that’s quite a challenge".
(12)Others warned the government’s plan would turn the clock back. Martin McKee, professor of European
public health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, said: "It’s important to learn the lessons of history. Public health was taken out of local authority control in 1974 and it was the best thing that ever happened to it."
(13) "Why put it back? The new plans provide no clue was to whether there will be enough public health funds available and will see councillors who were elected on a platform of schools and the environment suddenly responsible for health."
The word "authorities" in the passage has the closest meaning to _______.
选项
A、child health specialists
B、administrative districts
C、authoritative reviews
D、government officials
答案
B
解析
authorities一词可在第2段第1句、第6段第1句和第9段找到,其中在第2段和第9段,authorities均被local修饰,结合上下文可以推断authorities应该与第1段提到的areas,parts和第3段中的towns等意思相近,local authorities最可能是“地方当局”(即“区域、地区”)的意思,故应选B。
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