[单项选择]To enjoy a longer life has been a dream for mankind since always. With the improvement of health care, nutrition and health knowledge, we began to make dramatic efforts to reduce the effects of the forces that had traditionally shortened human existence.
10 million to 17 million people aged 65 or older made up less than 1 percent of the world’s population in 1900. Survival rates began to climb for infants, children and women of childbearing age, gradually lifting humanity’s average life span. By 2000, 606 million were aged 60 or older, and they made up almost 10 percent of the world’s population. According to the United Nations report World Population Prospects, by 2050 that group could swell to 1.9 billion and constitute one fifth of the world’s projected population.
But it is not all about to live a longer life. And it would not be such a good idea to live your last years in illness and pain. In fact, it would turn into a torture. No, we want to live better, more youthf
A. We now have better equipment in hospitals.
B. We are now better informed about how to live a healthy life.
C. We know what kind of food would do us good, and what wouldn’t.
D. We are now better financially supported when we get old.

[单项选择]To enjoy a longer life has been a dream for mankind since always. With the improvement of health care, nutrition and health knowledge, we began to make dramatic efforts to reduce the effects of the forces that had traditionally shortened human existence.
10 million to 17 million people aged 65 or older made up less than 1 percent of the world’s population in 1900. Survival rates began to climb for infants, children and women of childbearing age, gradually lifting humanity’s average life span. By 2000, 606 million were aged 60 or older, and they made up almost 10 percent of the world’s population. According to the United Nations report World Population Prospects, by 2050 that group could swell to 1.9 billion and constitute one fifth of the world’s projected population.
But it is not all about to live a longer life. And it would not be such a good idea to live your last years in illness and pain. In fact, it would turn into a torture. No, we want to live better, more youthf
A. We have a larger total population.
B. More accident victims can survive due to improved medical care.
C. More children were born so that the old can be better taken care of,
D. Less newly-born children and the mother bearing them die.

[填空题](No wonder) that (man’s) great dream has been someday to control the weather. The first step toward control is, of course, knowledge, and scientists have been (hard at work) for years trying to (keep track for) the weather. A. No wonder B. man’s C. hard at work D. keep track

[单项选择]For someone whose life has been shattered, Hiroshi Shimizu is remarkably calm. In a cramped Tokyo law office, the subdued, bitter man in his 30s—using an assumed name for the interview relates how he became infected with the HIV virus from tainted blood products sold by Japanese hospitals to hemophiliacs during the mid-1980s. "I was raped," says Shimizu. "I never thought doctors would give me bad medicine. "
last year, Shimizu was shocked when a doctor newly transferred to his hospital broke the news. Four years earlier, he had asked his previous doctor if he could safely marry. "He told me: ’There’s absolutely no problem,’ even though he knew [I was infected]," Shimizu says. "I could have passed it to my wife. " Luckily, he hasn’t.
Shimizu is one of more than 2,000 hemophiliacs and their loved ones infected with the deadly virus before heat-treated blood products became available in Japan. It’s a tragedy—and now it’s a national scandal. In recent weeks, the country has been
A. was around thirty odd with his pseudonym
B. was called Hiroshi Shimizu who was raped by the doctor
C. was an infuriated, clamorous adolescent who got married four years ago
D. was a greatly upset young man who got his blood transfusion about ten years ago