2011职称英语卫生C类：补全短文资料(4)

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　　Death Control
2 \2 h1 ~* P/ t3 u, z' r: P+ L  [　　A very important world problem -- in fact, ! am inclined to say（倾向认为） it is the most important of all the 'great world problems which face us at the present time -- is the rapidly increasing pressure of'population on land and on land resources（土地资源）
　　___ (1).___ By 2000 A.D., unless something desperate happens（除非采取紧急行动）, there will be as many as 7,000,000,000 people on the surface of the earth! So this is a problem which you are going to see in your lifetime.
　　Why is this enormous increase in population taking place? __(2)__ You have heard
3 k, L% x9 ~. I0 S　　of Birth Control? __(3)__ Death Control recognizes（承认）the work of the doctors and thenurses and the hospitals and the health services in keeping alive people who, a few years ago,would have died of some of the incredibly serious killing diseases, as they used to do6. Squalidconditions（肮脏的环境）, which we can remedy by an improved standard of living, caused a lot of disease anddirt. Medical examinations at school catch diseases early8 and ensure healthier school children.外语学习网
; j) S6 [/ P0 B6 |: G7 w8 C. ]# \　　Scientists are at work stamping out malaria（消灭疟疾） and other more deadly diseases. If you are seriously ill there is an ambulance to take you to a modem hospital. __(4)__ We used to thinkseventy was a good age; now eighty, ninety, it may be, are coming to be recognized as a normalage for human beings.__(5)__.
　　练习：
& B/ g1 w! O9 V　　A  People are living longer because of this Death Control, and fewer children are dying, so thepopulation of the world is shooting up~~.
( t" Q% F+ z8 M4 {　　B  Death Control is something rather different.
% @5 k8 S$ h+ K+ l　　C  It is really due to4 the spread of the knowledge and the practice of what is coming to becalled Death Control.
　　D  This enormous increase of population will create immense problems.
( a, d2 p% R& N/ Q' Q  Z　　E  The standard of living may be improved through death control.
　　F  Medical care helps to keep people alive longer.
　　练习答案1D  2C  3B  4F  5A