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

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

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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 improvement 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 larger population using a【C19】______stock of things like land and capital,【C20】______depressing income per person. [br] 【C8】
选项 A、prevented
B、driven
C、controlled
D、curbed
答案 B
解析 此段的中心意思为：研究者对国民更健康的国家更加富裕这种观点持怀疑态度。为了调查，他们需研究不受经济增长______的某些国家的医疗发展状况。因此，空格处要用driven“驱动，推动”。prevented意为“阻止”；controlled意为“控制”；curbed意为“抑制，约束”。
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