“No woman is ever too slim or too rich, goes a popular adage. It may be wrong. T

“Nowoman is ever too slim or too rich,”goes a popular adage. It may be wrong. Though the fat persons definitelyrun the great of hypertension, heart attacks and other ills, the verythin are not necessarily any healthier. Studying data collected during a 24 -year study, National Institutes of Health Epidemiologist Paul Sorlie andhis colleagues were surprised by similar high mortality rates forthe underweight. The finding could not be explained by such factors as theamount of smoking or undiagnosed illness. These results, Sorlie writes in theJournal of the American Medical Association, “raise questions as to the health benefits from weightreduction in persons of average or near average weight.”

1. An adage is a ________.

A．song

B．wrong observation

C．poem

D．saying based on common observation

2. Hypertension is ________.

A．abnormally low blood pressure

B．abnormally high blood pressure

C．irregular blood pressure

D．normal blood pressure

3. An epidemiologist is ________.

A．a specialist in the control of a disease in a population

B．a specialist in the actions and diseases of the heart

C．a specialist in the study of man

D．a specialist in the study of man’s ways of life

4. A person who is obese is ________.

A．suffering from high blood pressure

B．highly overweight

C．underweight

D．normal weight

5. A mortality rate refers to

A．the percent of overweight persons compared to the percentof underweight persons

B．the degree of obese people who suffer heart attack

C．the proportion of deaths in a given population

D．a comparison within a given population of the obese to thethin- bodied

试题答案

答案：1D2B3A4B5C