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  3. People tend to underestimate their life expectancy, and it’s not surprising.

People tend to underestimate their life expectancy, and it’s not surprising.

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问题     People tend to underestimate their life expectancy, and it’s not surprising. It’s the look-around problem again: You【C1】______from life spans of older friends and family members and figure out what’s in【C2】______for you, too. But in an era of rapidly improving life expectancy, the look-around method once again gives the wrong answer.
    Life expectancy at age 65 today is 15.6 additional years for woman. For both sexes, this represents an【C3】______of more than two years just since 1970. By the time the youngest baby boomers turn 65, the Social Security Administration【C4】______that life expectancy at that age could be as high as 18 more years for men and 21 years for women. Note that everyone【C5】______very nearly a 50 percent "risk" of living longer than their life expectancy.
    That reality makes retirement planning【C6】______difficult. On the day a husband and wife【C7】______65, they may have only a year or two of living between them to finance, or they may have 70. A good rule of thumb might be to plan against the possibility that you will【C8】______three quarters of the people in your age group — an actuarial(保险核计的)calculation our Website calculator allows you to make. You may not want to【C9】______a child a college education just so you are sure to have enough money to celebrate your 95th birthday, but you also don’t want to become a burden on your children just because you unexpectedly live to be 10 years older than the【C10】______life expectancy for people your age.
A)increase B)expectancy C)generalize D)typically E)deny
F)special G)average H)maintain I)exceptionally J)outlive
K)runs L)doomed M)turn N)projects O)store [br] 【C10】
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答案 G
解析 空格前是冠词the，后面是名词life，故此空格需填形容词。根据句意，是你意外地比同龄人的平均寿命多活了10年。故填入形容词average。
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