2012.12大学英语六级考试预测卷03-速读

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1．What is regarded its the fastest-growing group in the UK?
A)The pensioners．
B)The centenarians．
C)The minors．
D)The middle-aged．

2．The growing numbers of elderly people __________.
A)becomeeconomic burdens to the society
B)ignite a new industry for the elderly people
C)resultfrom the state's comfortable pension
D)have little negative impact on the country

3．According to the statistical study，the supercentenarians __________．
A1usually suffer from chronic disease in their late years
B)areless healthy than the centenarians in their late years
C)oftenlead a healthy life without chronic diseases
D)arefewer than centenarians in 1970 and’80s

4．In 2005，how manyelderly people were still self-sufficient in Christensen's sample?
A) 3600.
B) 1200.
C) 166.
D) 55.

5. Christensen's findings bring good newsfor society in that they show __________
A) centenarians don't necessarily depend onsociety
B) centenarians illustrate the high livingstandard
C) disability among centenarians can beavoided
D) healthy centenarians can contribute tosociety

6. According to Jessica Evert's analysis,the "escapers" __________
A) make up the largest part of thecentenarians
B) consist of more males than females
C) refer to those escape chronic diseasesbefore 80
D) live longer than those in other twocategory

7. e4, which is a variant of APoE,__________.
A) is commonly found in centenarians
B) is a signal gene that indicateslongevity
C) brings higher risk of heart disease
D) has been found in other organisms excepthuman

8. The people with two copies of FOXO3A aremore likely to be __________ in their old age.
9. FOXO3A influences, how __________ bycontrolling insulin/lGF-1 pathway.
10. With faster genomic technologies andmore centenarians, the prospects of searching for longevity genes become__________.