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
35
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、sweeping
B、prevalent
C、general
D、widespread
答案
B
解析
本题考查辨析词义的能力。sweeping范围大的,笼统的;prevalent流行的,盛行的;general普通的,大体的;widespread分布广的,流传广的。文章中句子的意思,。这些疾病流行于富有的国家。因此这里应用prevalent。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/bG44777K
0
考研英语一
相关试题推荐
Morethan45millionAmericansnowbelongtoahealthclub.Wespendsome$19billionayearongymmemberships.Ofcourse,some
Judgingfromrecentsurveys,mostexpertsinsleepbehavioragreethatthereisvirtuallyanepidemicofsleepinessinthenatio
TheaverageBritishpeoplegetsix-and-a-halfhours’sleepanight,accordingtotheSleepCouncil.Ithasbeenknownforsomet
Fordecadesthemarketforexpensiveheadphoneswasmainlylimitedtohi-fifans.But【C1】________theboxystereosysteminthec
Speakingtwolanguagesratherthanjustonehasobviouspracticalbenefitsinanincreasinglyglobalizedworld.Butinrecentye
Parentsshouldnotassumethatyoungchildren’snaturallanguageabilitieswillleadtotruegrown-uplanguageskillswithout
Universityusedtobeforaprivilegedfew.Insomecountriesitisnowalmostariteofpassage.Althoughthatisexcellentnew
TedNingworkedasasalesmaninthatinsurancecompanyforayearbecausehesimplydidn’tknowwhatelsetodo,butfelthish
Theword"schism"(Line3,Paragraph1)inthecontextprobablymeans______.Paragraphs2and3arewrittento______.
Thesystemwasredesignedsoembracethenetworkandeventually______itinaprofitabledirection.
随机试题
婴幼儿轻度脱水时,眼窝和前颅()
根据《医疗机构药事管理规定》,关于医疗机构药事管理的说法,错误的是
下列选项中,属于信贷活动的包括()。
2001年4月,市财税部门对A家具公司在进行例行检查中,发现A家具公司3月份发生以下事项。(1)会计王某休产假,公司一时找不到合适人选,决定由出纳李某兼任王某的收入、费用账目的登记工作。(2)处理生产家具剩余的边角余料,取得收入(含增值
我国城市人民检察院的法律监督活动必须坚持的原则是()。
千百年来,长江流域以水为纽带形成了经济社会大系统。在中国众多区域发展规划中,长江经济带是非常特殊的一个。一方面,长江流域近些年经济社会迅猛发展,综合实力快速提升,是我国经济重心所在、活力所在;另一方面,我们的母亲河也不堪重负,疲态尽显,有些区域已经出现严重
诺贝尔文学奖是根据瑞典著名的发明家和化学家诺贝尔的遗嘱,由他捐赠的财产设立基金创立的。下列选项中获得诺贝尔文学奖的作家和作品是()。
毛泽东在《中国革命和中国共产党》中论述了民主革命和社会主义革命的关系。这两个革命阶段能够有机连接的原因是资本主义道路在中国走不通。()
设A=有三个线性无关的特征向量,且λ=2为A的二重特征值,求可逆矩阵P,使得P-1AP为对角矩阵.
Athleteswhocheatbyinjectingthemselveswithstoredsuppliesoftheirownbloodmightsoonbecaughtout.Arevealingtrailo
最新回复
(
0
)