阅读理解 World Health Report 2002 The life expectancy (平均寿命) of people around the wo

阅读理解

World Health Report 2002

    The lifeexpectancy (平均寿命) of people around the world couldincrease by five to ten years if action against common health risks (冒险，风险) is taken．Thisis one of the findings in this year’s World Health Report released (发布) recently by the World Health Organization．The report is called “Reducing Risks，Promoting (促进)Life”．

    Researchersfound that ten major threats to good health are common around the world．The chief of the World Health Organization，Gro Harlem Brundtland，called them the ten leading killers．They include unsafe sex，poor nutrition (营养)，highblood pressure，use of tobacco and alcohol，unsafe water and unclean living conditions．Also included are high levels of dangerousfat in the blood，indoor smoke from solid fuels，a lack of iron in the body and too much bodyweight，or obesity (肥胖)．Together，these ten health risks make up forty percentof the fifty-six million deaths worldwide each year．

    DoctorBrundtland called for reducing the ten main health risks by twenty-five percentwithin ten years．If this were done，life expectancy in industrial countries couldincrease by ten years．In developing countries，it could increase by five years．

Currently (通常地)，thenumber of life years lost because these health risks differ around the world．Doctor Brundtland says the differences thesehealth risks create between rich and poor nations are shocking (骇人听闻的)．Forexample，about one-hundred-seventy-millionchildren in poor countries are underweight. They do not weigh enough becausethey do not get enough food. However, more than one thousand millionお adults around the world are too fat. Thesepeople are mostly in rich, industrial countries.

Doctor Brundtland warns that the cost ofinaction is serious. For e
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xample, she says nine million deaths a year linked tosmoking will be reported by two-thousand–twenty if steps are not taken soon.Currently, about five millionお people die each year fromdiseases related to smoking.

Doctor Brundtland says that AIDS (艾滋病) and the HIV virus (艾滋病病毒) are having a huge effect on the length oflife in Africa. Currently, life expectancy at birth in southern Africa isforty-seven years. The WHO estimates (估计)that ninety-five percent of HIV infections (感染)in Africa were caused by unsafe sex. She says there is an urgent need for sexeducation and the use of condom devices (孕器具)to prevent the spread of HIV.

Judge the following sentences true (T) orfalse (F).

1.It is certain that life expectancy ofpeople around the world could increase by five to ten years in future.

1.  Mostof the deaths worldwide each year are due to (由于)the ten leading killers such as unsafe sex, poor nutrition, high blood pressureand so on.

3.From the passage, we can infer that so farpeople haven’t dealt with smoking effectively.

4.The length of life in Africa is affected most by AIDS.

试题答案

答案：F;F;T;T