Question

If you, a man, are looking through this, congratulations: you are a survivor (幸存者). According to a survey, you are more than twice likely to die of skin cancer than a woman, and nine times more likely to die of AIDS. If you make it to the end of your natural term, about 78 years for men in Australia, you will die on average five years before a woman.

There are many reasons for this. Men take more risks than woman and are more likely to drink and smoke—but perhaps more importantly, men don’t go to the doctor.

“Men aren’t seeing doctors as often as they should.” says Dr. Gullotta,“This is particularly so for the over 40s, when diseases tend to strike.”Gullotta says a healthy man should visit the doctor every year or two. For those over 45, it should be at least once a year. Two months ago Gullotta saw a 50-year-old man who had delayed(延遲) doing anything about his smoker’s cough for a year. “When I finally saw him it had already spread and he has since died from lung cancer.”he says.“Earlier finding and treatment may not have cured him, but it would have made him live longer.”

According to a recent survey, 95% of women aged between 15 and early 40s see a doctor once a year, compared to 70% of men in the same age group.

“A lot of men think they are strong enough. While some men are scared of what might be there and would rather not know. Most men get their cars serviced more regularly than they service their bodies.” Dr. Gullotta says. He believes most diseases that commonly affect men could be found out by check-ups. Regular check-ups for men would place strain on the public purse, Gullotta says. “But prevention is cheaper in the long run than having to cure the diseases. Besides, the final/highest cost is far greater: it is called premature death(過(guò)早死亡).”

1. From the first paragraph, we can know that _________.

A. women are more likely to die of skin cancer

B. men are more likely to get some deadly diseases

C. men can live five years longer than women

D. men who live long are very lucky

2.What is a more important reason for man’s death?

A. Men take more risks than women.

B. Diseases tend to strike men easily

C. Men don’t go to doctors for check-ups.

D. Men like drinking and smoking.

3.Why does the author take a 50-old-man as an example?

A. To realize the importance of disease prevention.

B. To show he could have avoided death.

C. To prove smoking leads to lung cancer.

D. To think highly of the doctor’s work.

4.What can be drawn from the last paragraph?

A. Treatment would cost a lot of money.

B. Cars are more valuable than health.

C. Men are brave to accept the reality.

D. Check-ups are necessary and worthwhile.

 

Answer 1

1.B

2.C

3.A

4.D

【解析】

試題分析:調(diào)查發(fā)現(xiàn)男性比女性更容易患上致命的疾病。在本文中作者對(duì)此進(jìn)行了分析，其原因之一是男性喝酒，吸煙的人要比女性多；此外更重要的原因是男性不喜歡去醫(yī)院進(jìn)行定期檢查，這樣就錯(cuò)過(guò)了疾病的最佳治療時(shí)期，從而導(dǎo)致男性死亡率的上升。

1.細(xì)節(jié)理解題。由第一段中According to a survey, you are more than twice likely to die of skin cancer than a woman,可知男性比女性更容易患上致命的疾病，答案選B。

2.細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)文章第二段—but perhaps more importantly, men don’t go to the doctor.可知答案選C。

3.推理判斷題。文章第二段提到“Men aren’t seeing doctors as often as they should.”，然后用一死亡病例說(shuō)明不去進(jìn)行體檢的嚴(yán)重后果，由此可知作者的目的是想說(shuō)明不定期體檢的嚴(yán)重后果，提醒人們，尤其是男士們要意識(shí)到預(yù)防的重要性，故答案選C。

4.主旨大意題。在文章末段作者引述了Dr. Gullotta的話，說(shuō)明了男性死亡的原因之一是他們不去定期體檢，不能及時(shí)發(fā)現(xiàn)病癥，從而導(dǎo)致死亡，由此可知身體檢查是必要的，故答案選D。

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