四川省蓬溪县2016高考英语阅读理解及书面表达练习(10)
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四川省蓬溪县2016高考英语阅读理解及书面表达练习（10） 阅读下列四篇短文，从每小题后所给的A,B,C或D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。 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.
1. In 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 2. What does the underlined word “outlive” in the second paragraph probably mean? A. To live longer than. . . B. To live shorter than. . . C. To die out. D. To expect to live. 3. What is the main idea of paragraph three? A. Hispanics were born better than whites. B. Morality is closely related with health care access. C. Whites should have longer life expectancy. D. Even experts can’t explain the phenomenon. 4. What is Mr. Hayes-Bautista’s opinion about the paradox? A. He supports there is a problem with the data. B. He intends to trust the cultural factor. C. He believes in the “healthy migrant effect”. D. He thinks health care the most important factor. 5. Which of the following inferences is true according to the passage? A. Black people suffer the lowest social status in America. B. Hispanics might have healthier ways of life. C. Only healthy people can immigrate into America. D. White people don’t have strong family ties. 【参考答案】1—5、CADBB
阅读理解。 I have been consistently opposed to feeding a baby regularly. As a doctor, mother and scientist in child development I believe there is nothing to recommend it, from the baby's point of view. Mothers, doctors and nurses alike have no idea of where a baby's blood sugar level lies. All we know is that a low level is harmful to brain development and makes a baby easily annoyed. In this state, the baby is difficult to calm down and sleep is impossible. The baby asks for attention by crying and searching for food with its mouth. It is not just unkind but also dangerous to say a fourhourly feeding schedule will make a baby satisfied. The first of the experts to advocate a strict clockwatching schedule was Dr Frederic Truby King who was against feeding in the night. I've never heard anything so ridiculous. Baby feeding shouldn't follow a timetable set by the mum. What is important is feeding a baby in the best way, though it may cause some inconvenience in the first few weeks. Well, at last we have copperbottomed research that supports demand feeding and points out the weaknesses of strictly timed feeding. The research finds out that babies who are fed on demand do better at school at age 5, 7, 11 and 14, than babies fed according to the clock. By the age of 8, their IQ (智商) scores are four to five percent higher than babies fed by a rigid timetable. This research comes from Oxford and Essex
