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人教版2019选择性必修第一册 单元测试定心卷

Unit 5 Working the land

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I.阅读选择

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A research by the National Center for Health Statistics is seen as an important confirmation of the

“Hispanic mortality paradox (

西班牙裔死亡率悖论

).”

On average, Hispanics outlive whites by 2.5 years and blacks by 7.7 years. Their life expectancy at

birth in 2006 was 80.6 years, compared with 78.1 for whites, 72.9 for blacks and 77.7 years for the total

population.

The report shows that the Hispanic population has higher life expectancy at birth and at almost every

age despite a socioeconomic status lower than that of whites. “Mortality is very correlated with income,

education and health care access,” says Elizabeth Arias, author of the report. “You would expect the

Hispanic population would have higher mortality, in line with the black population.”

The Hispanic paradox has been documented for more than two decades, but this is the first time the

government has had enough data to issue national numbers. Researchers are struggling to explain why

Hispanics live longer.

“We don’t know,” says David Hayes-Bautista, director of the Center for the Study of Latino Health

and Culture at UCLA’s David Geffen School of Medicine. “We thought it was a problem in the data, but we

can pretty much say this is real.”

Potential factors:

·Culture and lifestyle. Support from extended family and lower rates of smoking and drinking. Latino

groups in particular have very strong family and social ties.

·Migration. The “healthy migrant effect” argues that healthy people are more likely to emigrate. And

when immigrants become ill, they might return home and die there.

“Solving the puzzle may help the nation deal with health care issues because Hispanics use health

services less—they make fewer doctors visits and spend less time in hospitals,” Hayes Bautista says. “It’s

clearly something in the Latino culture,” he says.

2006, Hispanics’ life expectancy is years longer than the average of the total population.

A.2. 5 B.7. 7 C.2. 9 D.80. 6

does the underlined word “outlive” in the second paragraph probably mean?

live longer than.

live shorter than.

die out.

expect to live.

is the main idea of paragraph three?

ics were born better than whites.

ty is closely related with health care access.

should have longer life expectancy.

experts can’t explain the phenomenon.

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People have always been defined by their generation. We had the baby boomers of the 1960s, followed

by Generation X and then Generation Y, often referred to as millennials, and the new kids on the block are

Generation Z - aged between 16 and 22. It's easy to classify these young people as all being the same,

sharing the same attitudes towards life—but is that fair?

People from Generation Z, informally called "Z-ers", may be viewed by others as digital natives,

incapable of real-world friendships. But they actually view themselves as hardworking, ambitious and