2. 职称英语
  3. The link between health and income seems pretty uncontroversial.【C1】______al

The link between health and income seems pretty uncontroversial.【C1】______al

游客2023-10-10  66
问题     The link between health and income seems pretty uncontroversial.【C1】______all, healthy people can work longer and harder than sick people. Healthier children are【C2】______to stay in school longer and learn more【C3】______more when they enter the workforce. Even across countries the【C4】______seems clear: those with better health are【C5】______richer.
    The researchers of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are skeptical about the notion【C6】______healthier countries are richer, because countries with【C7】______incomes may simply spend more on health. To investigate, they needed to study health improvements that were not【C8】______by economic growth in the countries concerned.
    Beginning in the 1940s several medical【C9】______involving penicillin(青霉素)and DDT(滴滴涕)made it easier to【C10】______diseases-such as tuberculosis(结核病), malaria(疟疾) and yellow fever—that【C11】______people in developing countries. Because these ideas【C12】______in the rich world and were spread by【C13】______such as the WHO, any improvements in【C14】______they led to would have been unconnected with prior improvements in the economic【C15】______of poor countries.
    This international revolution in public health【C16】______lead to substantial increases in life【C17】______in poor countries by the 1950s. However, the researchers found that income per head actually【C18】______when life expectancy went up. The reason was that increased life expectancy led to a higher population using a【C19】______stock of things like land and capital,【C20】______depressing income per person. [br] 【C9】
选项 A、inventories
B、inventiveness
C、innovations
D、creativity
答案 C
解析 文中提到了在20世纪40年代出现的药品青霉素、滴滴涕，这是医药界的新事物，因此用innovations“新事物”。inventories意为“清单”；inventiveness与creativity都有“创造力”之意，是抽象名词，没有复数形式。
转载请注明原文地址:https://www.tihaiku.com/zcyy/3088101.html
相关试题推荐
随机试题
最新回复(0)