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
外语
If your health is in question, you go to the doctor. When the entire planet’s well-being is at issue, it’s the World Health Orga
If your health is in question, you go to the doctor. When the entire planet’s well-being is at issue, it’s the World Health Orga
admin
2010-06-11
40
问题
If your health is in question, you go to the doctor. When the entire planet’s well-being is at issue, it’s the World Health Organization you consult. The group’s recently released World Health Report focuses on the future—and the prognosis is excellent. If WHO experts are right, the 21 st century will be peopled by healthy senior citizens, not only in the more developed nations of the West but throughout the world.
That rosy forecast comes from gains made during the past half century. Infant-and-child-mortality rates have dropped dramatically, major infectious disease such as yellow fever and plague are under control and average life expectancy worldwide has shot up from 48 in 1955 to 66 today. Coming decades will bring more of the same, the WHO predicts. Average life expectancy is expected to hit 73 years by 2025--and that’s only an average. Thousands of babies born at the end of the 20 th century will stick around to sec the dawn of the 22 nd , predicts Muthu, director of the Office of World Health Reporting.
Of course, there are a few red flags on the world’s health chart, among them a significant gap in life expectancy between the richest and the poorest countries. In 1996, for example, 76 percent of the deaths reported to WHO from Africa were of people under 50.In Europe, only 15 percent of those who died were that young. By 2025, WHO predicts, 57 percent of the African deaths will be under 50, versus 7 percent in Europe—a marked improvement but still a gap. Then there are the costs of progress. More people around the world have access to safe water and sanitation than ever before, and most children are now immunized against major childhood diseases. But economic strides can bring with them heart disease, strokes and cancer, the so-called diseases of affluence that accompany the adoption of high-fat, low-exercise "Western lifestyles".
Infectious and parasitic diseases still accounted for 173 million deaths last year, but circulatory diseases and cancer made steady gains, accounting for 15.3 and 6.2 million deaths, respectively. That trend, unfortunately, is likely to continue.
But the largest shadow over world health is the growing HIV/AIDS epidemic. Unless an effective vaccine or treatment is developed--or, unlikelier still, the entire global population starts practicing safe sex--AIDS could wipe out past gains and threaten future mortality projections. Last year about 1.8 million adults died of the disease, a toll that is likely to rise—but right now children are the major victims infected, says Dr. Paul Kleihues, director of the International Agency for Research on Cancer and one of the report’s authors.
The average life expectancy in 21 st century will be______.
选项
答案
more than/above 73 years
解析
参见第二段倒数第二句“Average life expectancy is expected to hit 73 years by 2025—and that’s only an average.”2025年平均年龄就能达到75岁,以后当然更高。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/dXKK777K
0
大学英语六级
相关试题推荐
A、Entirelyeffective.B、Totallyincorrect.C、Acompletefailure.D、Quitedifficult.AWhichoneofthefollowingmaybeusedtod
Kunzgaveupsoftwareengineeringmainlybecauseheearnedlessthanthoseinlaworbusinessfielddid.Onlyasmallpercentag
A、It’soverpriced.B、Itmakespeoplecrazy.C、It’sdifferentfromothercoffeehouses’coffee.D、AllthecoffeeisfromBrazil.
WhatweretheeidersofcontemporaryAmericansquiteunfamiliarwith?Theneedofmostofthedyingpatientsforcompanyshows
TheauthorconsidersthatFrance______.IncomparingFrenchandEnglisheducation,theauthorindicatesthat______.
A、ThatshehasneverbeentoYan’an.B、Thatsheissointerestedintraveling.C、Thatshehasfinishedherpaper.D、Thatshedoe
Whenaninventionismade,theinventorhasthreepossiblecoursesofactionopentohim:hecangivetheinventiontotheworld
Inaddition,althoughthose______(有更多财经知识)tendtosavemoreandmakehigherreturnsontheirlong-terminvestments,thestreng
Noonehas_______________________(做出一个令人信服的解释)whydinosaursdiedout.
Thereweretimes______(我尽量避免去想那些令人不快的事).
随机试题
心衰患者饮食心律失常病人饮食
急性病人面色突然变得苍白属于
下列对诊断早期原发性肝癌最有价值的检查是
股静脉穿刺点位于紧靠股动脉内侧0.5cm处。()
审查施工图预算时,分组审查法与全面审查法相比,具有()的特点。
假设某商业银行的业务如下:①各项存款2200万元;②各项贷款1400万元;③库存现金10077万元;④向央行办理票据再贴现100万元;⑤开办信托投资业务150万元;⑥发行金融债券300万元;⑦在央行存款200万元;⑧承诺向水电厂贷款80万元。根据上述资料
下列有关注册会计师合理运用职业判断的说法中,不正确的有()。
我们把海螺壳扣在耳朵上.可以听到像海潮一样的声音,其实这是()。
已知效用函数为U=logaX+logaY,预算约束为Px·x+Py·y=M。求:(1)消费者均衡条件;(2)X与Y的需求函数。
AlthoughacupuncturehasbeenpracticedinChinafor2,000years,itsuseintheWesternworldisstillverynew.Severalhospit
最新回复
(
0
)