Aboutacenturyago,theaveragelife-span(壽命)forAmericanswas...
問題詳情:
About a century ago, the average life-span (壽命) for Americans was about 50 years. Today, the typical American lives for around seventy-eight years.
According to a German aging study, the maximum life span in industrialized countries has increased by two years every decade since the mid 19th century. What accounts for such increased
longevity?
Between 1900 and 1950, inventions such as refrigeration(製冷技術)and sewage treatment
(汙水處理) meant that young people were able to survive longer. Moreover, medical
breakthroughs helped contain diseases such as polio(小兒麻痺症), which killed many children. These advances helped increase the average life span.
Medical discoveries after World War II tended to benefit older people. Treatments for heart disease, for example, have allowed the elderly to live longer on average. So does this mean that future medical breakthroughs will result in even longer average life spans, or have we reached our
limit? Scientists disagree.
Some argue that if science is one day able to remove disease and old-age infirmity, there will be virtually no limit on how long humans can live. Some even predict that by the year 2150, the
average life span will have increased to around 120 years.
Other life-expectancy researchers find that scenario(假設) highly unlikely. Our bodies’ cells can keep reproducing for only so long before they peter out(*). Only when science finds a
way to keep our cells dividing longer will we see another significant leap in life expectancy.
Still, with plenty of exercise and a healthy diet, those who hold the view can always hope that they’ll live long enough to break the record held by Jeanne Louise Calment of France, who lived
to be 122.
ared with the average life-span about a century ago, the typical American lives about
_______ years longer at present. | |||
A.50 | B.78 | C.28 | D.42 |
r World War II, the longer average life spans mainly resulted from________. igeration and sewage treatment
cal breakthroughs ing the cells dividing longer cing polio
is the scientists’ attitude towards the view “we have reached our life-span limit”?
ortive ctive C. optimistic pproving
rding to some life-expectancy researchers, keeping our bodies’ cells reproducing before they peter out may be________.
ssible B. possible C. exciting erning
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