People have been talking about health for a long time because people know the importance of it. People's understanding of health also becomes deeper with the progress in scientific research. Recently the term "health" has come to have a wider meaning than it used to. It no longer means just the absence of illness. Today, health means the well-being of your body, your mind and your relationship with other people. This new concept of health is closely related to another term-quality of life. Quality of life is the degree of overall satisfaction that a person gets from life.

  Why has the emphasis of health shifted from the absence of disease to a broader focus on the quality of a person's life? One reason for this has to do with the length and conditions of life that people can now expect. Medical advances have made it possible for people today to live longer, healthier lives. Imagine for a moment that you were born in the year 1900. You could have expected on average to live until about the age of 47. In contrast, if you were born in the year 1999, you could expect to live to the age of 75.

1.________ leads to people's deeper understanding of health.

A.Common knowledge

B.Progress in scientific research

C.Better conditions of living

D.Quality of life

2.The emphasis of health has shifted nowadays because _________.

A.people enjoy better conditions of living and they can live longer

B.people pay more attention to their physical health, not their mental health

C.people have realized the importance of mental well-being

D.people are inspired by medical advances

3.We can infer from the passage __________.

A.nowadays the emphasis of health has a broader focus because of improvements in the quality of food

B.the overall quality of people's lives improved greatly in the 20th century

C.those who never fall ill are the truly healthy people

D.those who were born before 1900 could not have lived until now

4.This passage is mainly about __________.

A.different understandings of the term "health"

B.improving the quality of life

C.the importance of quality living

D.people's expectations of a long and healthy life

 

【答案】

1.B

2.A

3.B

4.A

【解析】

試題分析:本文講述的是隨著時間的流逝,人們對health也有了很多不同的理解。

1.B 推理題。根據(jù)第二段2,3行Medical advances have made it possible for people today to live longer, healthier lives.可知科學(xué)技術(shù)的進步讓人們對健康又了更多的理解。故B正確。

2.A 推理題。根據(jù)第二段Medical advances have made it possible for people today to live longer, healthier lives.可知正是因為醫(yī)學(xué)技術(shù)的進步讓人們有更好的生活條件,能夠活得更久。故A正確。

3.B 推理題。根據(jù)文章最后2行Imagine for a moment that you were born in the year 1900. You could have expected on average to live until about the age of 47. In contrast, if you were born in the year 1999, you could expect to live to the age of 75.可知在20世紀(jì),人類的生活有了很大的提高。故B正確。

4.A 主旨大意題。根據(jù)文章第一段第一句和最后一句People have been talking about health for a long time because people know the importance of it. People's understanding of health also becomes deeper with the progress in scientific research.

This new concept of health is closely related to another term-quality of life. Quality of life is the degree of overall satisfaction that a person gets from life.可知本文講述的是人們對health的不同的理解。故A正確。

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點評:本文講述的是隨著時間的流逝,人們對health也有了很多不同的理解。本文主旨鮮明,很容易在文中找到答案。做題時要注意文章的首段和每一段的首句或尾句,因為它們往往就是文章的主題句。閱讀中要注意要點之間的關(guān)系。然后帶著問題,再讀全文,找出答題所需要的依據(jù),完成閱讀任務(wù)。

 

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