2012年职称英语卫生类A级新增文章
2012年职称英语新增为必考内容
写在最前面的关于30分题+15分1. +表示A级文章；*表示B即文章；其他为C级文章，考哪一级就看哪一级的内容，别的级别的题目完全不用看。
2. 每个级别新增阅读理解2篇完型填空2篇（今年以前完形填空只新增一篇），考试的时候，这两篇阅读理解必考一篇，文章完全一样，但是问题及答案不一定完全一样，所以仅仅记住答案是不可靠的，一定要结合后面的翻译把这篇文章看懂。
那么这里5道题目15分必定能拿到。
然后完型填空，先说今年以前，只新增一篇完型填空，这篇完型填空必考，只是留空的位置不会完全一样，大约有40%左右的留空位置是一样，所以光背答案是没得用的，一定要把文章看熟。
当然今年由于每个级别新增了2篇完型填空，那么考试的时候肯定也是2选1考一篇。
这里15道题15分也很容易能拿到。
3. 词汇有15道题，替换同义词，找本字典翻翻，这15分也不难，至少12分能拿到吧。
其他的题能拿多少分就看各位的英语底子了。
做最坏的打算，剩下的题目还有55分，按瞎蒙25%的概率能拿到13.75分，加上前面的45分大约也有58分左右，所以要完全靠瞎蒙的朋友考试前多扶扶老奶奶过马路，多积累点人品吧。
4. 以上只是投机取巧的方法，各位有时间的话还是花点时间复习下，但是考前一定要把新增的题目掌握好，就算英语底子好的朋友也起码可以节约不少考试时间。
5. 本人职称英语A\B\C级都是这样考过的，每年的规律都是一样的。
从客观角度说，每年的职称英语考试书都不便宜，新增的内容也不多，如果新增的东西里面没有价值，那么那本书还有谁买？那本书可是考试中心出的，阅读理解*第三＋八篇 "Life Form Found" on Saturn's Titan*第四十篇 Teaching Math, Teaching Anxiety完形填空*第十一篇 Climate Change Poses Major Risks for Unprepared Cities*第十二篇 Free Statins With Fast Food Could Neutralize Heart Risk*第三＋八篇 "Life Form Found" on Saturn's TitanScientists say they have discovered hints of alien life1 on the Saturn's moon2. The discovery of a sort of life was announced after researchers at the US space agency,NASA3,analyzed data from spacecraft Cassini4,which pointed to,the existence of methane-based form of life on Saturn's biggest moon.Scientists have reportedly discovered clues showing primitive alien beings are"breathing" inTitan's dense atmosphere filled with hydrogen.They argue that hydrogen gets absorbed before hitting Titan's planet-like surface covered with methane lakes and rivers. This,they say,points to the existence of some"bugs"5 consuming the hydrogen at the surface of the moon less than half the size of the Earth."We suggested hydrogen consumption because it's the obvious gas for life to consume on Titan,similar to the way we consume oxygen on Earth,"says NASA scientist Chris McKay."If these signs do turn out to be a sign of life,it would be doubly exciting because it would represent a second form of life independent from water-based life on Earth."To date,scientists have not yet detected this form of life anywhere,though there are liquid-water-based microorganisms on Earth that grow well on methane or produce it as a waste product. On Titan, where temperatures are around 90 Kelvin6(minus 290 degrees Farenheit),a methanebased organism would have to use a substance that is liquid as its medium for living processes, but not water itself. Water is frozen solid on Titan's surface and much too cold to support life as we know it.Scientists had expected the Sun's interactions with chemicals in the atmosphere to produce a coating of acetylene on Titan's surface. But Cassini detected no acetylene on the surface.The absence of detectable acetylene on the Titan's surface can very well have a non-biological explanation,said Mark Allen,a principal investigator7 of the NASA Titan team."Scientific conservatism suggests that a biological explanation should be the last choice after all non-biological explanations are addressed,"Allen said. "We have a lot of work to do to rule out8 possible non-biological explanations. It is more likely that a chemical process,without biology,can explain these results."词汇：Saturn /'sætən/ n．土星 methane/'mi:θein/ n．甲烷，沼气Titan/'taitən/ n．土卫六 acetylene/ə'setili:n/ n．乙炔alien/'eiljən/ n．外星人；adj．外星球的；相异的conservatism/kən'sʒ:vətizəm/ n．保守主义,守旧注释：1.hints of alien life：外星生命迹象。
2012年度职称英语“卫生类”新增阅读理解和完形填空全文翻译(3月26日)
2012年职称英语卫生类新增阅读理解第八篇 Eat Healthy"Clean your plate!" and "Be a member of the clean-plate -club!" Just about every kid in the US has heard this from a parent or grandparent. Often，it's accompanied by an appeal:" Just think about those starving orphans in Africa!" Sure, we should be grateful for every bite of food. Unfortunately, many people in the US take too many bites. Instead of staying "clean the plate", perhaps we should save some food for tomorrow.According to news reports, US restaurants are partly to blame for the growing bellies. A waiter puts a plate of food in front of each customer, with two to four times the amount recommended by the government, according to a USA Today story. Americans traditionally associate quantity with value and most restaurants try to give them that. They prefer to have customers complain about too much food rather than too little.Barbara Rolls, a nutrition professor at Pennsylvania State University, told USA Today that restaurant portion sizes began to grow in the 1970s, the same time that the American waistline began to expand.Health experts have tried to get many restaurants to serve smaller portions. Now, apparently，some customers are calling for this too. The restaurant industry trade magazine QSR reported last month that 57 percent of more than 4,000 people surveyed believe restaurants serve portions that are too large;23 percent had no opinion; 20 percent disagreed. But a closer look at the survey indicates that many Americans who can't afford fine dining still prefer large portions. Seventy percent of those earning at least $150,000 per year prefer smaller portions; but only 45 percent of those earning less than $25,000 want smaller.It's not that working class Americans don't want to eat healthy. It's just that，after long hours at low-paying jobs，getting less on their plate hardly seems like a good deal. They live from paycheck to paycheck ，happy to save a little money for next year's Christmas presents.第八篇翻译健康饮食“把盘子里的东西吃完了!”“要成为一名清盘俱乐部的成员!”几乎每一个美国小孩都会听到父母亲或祖父母这样的唠叨。
2012年职称英语综合类所有新增文章(含练习解析及译文)
2012年职称英语综合类所有新增文章(含练习解析及译文)D2012年职称英语综合类新增文章（含练习解析及译文）+第三十七篇Pop Music in Africa+第三十八篇Why So Many Children?+第四十七篇Narrow Escape补全短文（2篇）第九篇Heat Is Killer*第十一篇Virtual Driver完形填空（15篇）第一篇 A Life with Birds第二篇 A Lucky Break第三篇Global Warming第四篇 A Success Story第五篇Traffic in Our Cities第六篇Teaching and learning*第七篇The Difference between Man and Computer*第八篇Look on The Bright Side*第九篇The First Bicycle*第十篇Working Mothers+第十一篇School Lunch+第十二篇 A Powerful Influence+第十三篇The Old Gate+第十四篇Family History+第十五篇Helen and Martin译文见最后注：1、+表示A级文章；*表示B即文章；其他为C级文章；2、阅读判断，请参见第4页；概括大意与完成句子，请参见第8页；阅读理解，请参见第13页；补全短文，请参见第43页3、2012年词汇部分与2011年教材相比未作任何变化。
阅读判断第七篇Moderate Earthquake Strikes England中度地震袭击英国A moderate earthquake struck parts of southeast England on 28 April 2007，toppling chimneys from houses and rousing residents from their beds. Several thousand people were left without power1in Kent County. One woman suffered minor head and neck injuries.2007年4月28日英格兰东南部地区发生中度地震一些房屋烟囱倒塌，许多居民半夜从睡梦中惊醒。
2012年职称英语综合新增文章
2012年职称英语词汇、阅读理解完型填空题近义词abandoned given up an abundant a plentiful abide by stick to abided by adhered to abnormal unusua l abrupt suddena branch a division accelerate step up account consideration Accordingly, Therefore accumulate collect accumulate build up achieved attained adverse unfavorable.advisable wiseadvocated suggested allocated distributed allocate assign anyhow anywayan improved a better anyone anybody annoying irritating appalling dreadful around round asserted stated firmly at once immediately attend go to authentically genuinely backing supporting ban forbid barren bare blended mixed breaks beatscall phone called off cancelled capacity volume capabilities abilities causal informal census count childish immature complete finsh concise short and clear content satisfied considerable immense consideration account consume use convicitions beliefs conversation talk courteous respectful coverage reportage credible convincing crucial important cute clever damaging harmful deadly fatal debating discussing decent honestallowedplannersdepended on1Marathon, fundraiser.An extracurricular activitymost student leaders--American students joinmostly for--Who is Katie Rowley?-- B)an activity through toA) Passion.The phrasal verb ―fatten up‖C) polish.让一群大学生去负责募集美元的马拉松跳舞活动，这捐听起来肯定有点儿冒险。
2012年职称英语-卫生类(A级)新增文章答案及对照译文
阅读理解第一篇Who Want to Live Forever? （谁想永生？）If your doctor could give you a drug that would let you live a healthy life for twice as long ，would you take it?如果你的医生能给你一种药，这个药能让你健康的活两倍长的时间，你会服用吗?The good news is that we may be drawing near to that date，Scientists have already extended the lives of flies ，worms and mice in laboratories. Many now think that using genetic treatments we will soon be able to extend human life to at least 140 years. This seems a great idea. Think of how much more time we could spend chasing our dreams，spending time with our loved ones，watching our families grow and have families of their own.好消息是我们离这一天越来越近了。
科学家已经在实验中延长了苍蝇、蠕虫和老鼠的寿命。
许多人认为，采用基因疗法，我们很快就能将人类的寿命延长到至少140年。
这看似一个好主意。
想想我们将会延长多少时间来追逐我们的梦想、与爱人厮守、看看我们的孩子成长并组成他们自己的家庭。
"Longer life would give us a chance to recover from our mistakes and promote long term thinking," says Dr Gregory Stock of the University Of California School Of Public Health. "It would also raise productivity by adding to the year we can work."加州大学公共健康学院的格里戈里嘶托克博士认为：“长寿能使我们有机会改正错误，亦能促使人从长计划。
2012年职称英语阅读背诵版(卫生类含新增)
*第十九篇 （新增）Prolonging Human Life 新增）
*第二十篇 FDA: Human, Animal Waste Threatens Produce *第二十一篇 Early or Later Day Care *第二十二篇 Egypt Felled by Famine *第二十三篇 After-birth Depression Blamed for Woman's Suicide
Cooking Oil Fumes Cause Tumor
3．Cooking Oil Fumes Cause Tumor（卫C） ． （ ） 1）Patients with lung cancer become younger, especially females. 2）Lung cancer. 3）Irritated eyes and throat. 4）Surprised 5）Personal health and physical condition.
+第三十四篇
（新增）Who Want to Live Forever? （卫A） 新增）
+第三十五篇 Single-parent Kids Do Best +第三十六篇 Dangerous Sunshine to Children +第三十七篇 Hypertension Drugs Found to Cut Risk of Stroke +第三十八篇 Pregnancy Anomalies May Lower Breast Cancer Risk +第三十九篇 Pool Watch
2012职称英语新增短文内容详解
阅读理解（6篇）C第六篇Making Light of1 Sleep (详细内容)C第十九篇Graphene's Superstrength1 (详细内容)B第三＋八篇"Life Form Found" on Saturn's Titan (详细内容)B第四十篇Teaching Math, Teaching Anxiety (详细内容)A第四＋五篇Small But Wise (详细内容)A第四十六篇Ants Have Big Impact on Environment as "Ecosystem Engineers" (详细内容) 完形填空（6篇）C第三篇 (详细内容)C第十篇Chicken Soup for the Soul：Comfort Food Fights Loneliness (详细内容)B第十一篇Climate Change Poses Major Risks for Unprepared Cities (详细内容)B第十二篇Free Statins With Fast Food Could Neutralize Heart Risk (详细内容)A第十三篇Solar Power without Solar Cells (详细内容)A第十五篇“Liquefaction” Key to Much of Japanese Earthquake Damage (详细内容)阅读理解三十八"Life Form Found" on Saturn's TitanScientists say they have discovered hints of alien life1 on the Saturn's moon2. The discovery of a sort of life was announced after researchers at the US space agency,NASA3,analyzed data from spacecraft Cassini4,which pointed to,the existence of methane-based form of life on Saturn's biggest moon.Scientists have reportedly discovered clues showing primitive alien beings are"breathing" in Titan's dense atmosphere filled with hydrogen.They argue that hydrogen gets absorbed before hitting Titan's planet-like surface covered with methane lakes and rivers. This,they say,points to the existence of some"bugs"5 consuming the hydrogen at the surface of the moon less than half the size of the Earth."We suggested hydrogen consumption because it's the obvious gas for life to consume on Titan,similar to the way we consume oxygen on Earth,"says NASA scientist Chris McKay."If these signs do turn out to be a sign of life,it would be doubly exciting because it would represent a second form of life independent from water-based life on Earth."To date,scientists have not yet detected this form of life anywhere,though there are liquid-water-based microorganisms on Earth that grow well on methane or produce it as a waste product. On Titan, where temperatures are around 90 Kelvin6(minus 290 degrees Farenheit),a methanebased organism would have to use a substance that is liquid as its medium for living processes, but not water itself. Water is frozen solid on Titan's surface and much too cold to support life as we know it.Scientists had expected the Sun's interactions with chemicals in the atmosphere to produce a coating of acetylene on Titan's surface. But Cassini detected no acetylene on the surface.The absence of detectable acetylene on the Titan's surface can very well have a non-biological explanation,said Mark Allen,a principal investigator7 of the NASA Titan team."Scientific conservatism suggests that a biological explanation should be the last choice after all non-biological explanations are addressed,"Allen said. "We have a lot of work to do to rule out8 possible non-biological explanations. It is more likely that a chemical process,without biology,can explain these results."词汇：Saturn n．土星methane n．甲烷，沼气Titan n．土卫六acetylene n．乙炔alien n．外星人；adj．外星球的；相异的conservatism n．保守主义,守旧注释：1.hints of alien life：外星生命迹象。
2012年年【综合类】职称英语教材新增内容
2012年年【综合类】职称英语教材新增内容2012年【综合类】职称英语教材新增内容温馨提示：每年教材中新增篇幅的考试几率非常大，是考试复习的重点！一. 词汇选项：没有变动二. 阅读判断：C级新增1篇，B级新增1篇，A级没有新增1.第七篇：Moderate Earthquake Strikes England2.*第十一篇：Computer Mouse三. 概括大意与完成句子：C级新增1篇，B、A级没有新增1..第六篇：How We Form First Impression2.第十篇：Washoe Learned American Sign Language四. 阅读理解：C级新增5篇、B级新增15篇，A级新增8篇1.第一篇：Telling Tales about People讲述关于人们的故事2.第八篇：The Changing Middle Class变化中的中产阶级3.第十篇：A Letter from Alan艾伦的来信4.第十一篇：The Development of Ballet芭蕾舞的发展5.第十六篇：The Sahara 撒哈拉沙漠6.*第十七篇：Eiffel Is an Eyeful（2011年教材中为C级文章）引人注目的埃菲尔铁塔7.*第十八篇：Goal of American Education（2011年教材中为C级文章）美国教育的目标8.*第十九篇：The Family家庭9.*第二十篇：Tales of the Terrible Past讲述可怕的过去18.*第二十九篇：Find Yourself Packing It On? Blame Friends（2011年教材中为C级文章）发现自己变胖了？这得责怪朋友们19.*第三十篇："Lucky" Lord Lucan - Alive or Dead“幸运的”鲁肯伯爵一是死是活20.*第三十三篇：Oseola McCarty老妇人Oseola McCarty21.+第三十四篇：To Have and Have Not逃亡22.+第三十五篇：Going Her Own Way选择她自己的路23.+第三十六篇：A Tale of Scottish Rural Life（2011年教材中为B 级文章）一个关于苏格兰乡村生活的故事24.+第三十七篇：Pop Music in Africa非洲的流行音乐25.+第三十八篇：Why So Many Children为什么有这么多的孩子26.+第三十九篇：Eat to Live（2011年教材中为B级文章）为了活着吃饭27.+第四十篇：Narrow Escape（2011年教材中为B级文章）美国疾病预防新政策28.+第四十七篇：Narrow Escape九死一生五. 补全短文：C级新增2篇、B级新增1篇，A级没有新增1.第九篇：Heat Is Killer2.*第十一篇：Virtual Driver六完形填空：C级、B级、A级各新增5篇1.第一篇：A Life with Birds2.第二篇：S Lucky Break3.第三篇：Global Warming4.第四篇：A Success Story5.第五篇：Traffic in Our Cities6*.第六篇：Teaching and Learning7.*第七篇：The Difference between Man and Computer8.*第八篇：Look on The Bright Side9.*第九篇：The First Bicycle10.*第十篇：Working Mothers11.+第十一篇：School Lunch12.+第十二篇：A Powerful Influence13.+第十三篇：The Old Gate14.+第十四篇：Family History15.+第十五篇：Helen and Martin。
2012年职称英语综合类阅读理解新增文章(含练习解析及译文)
2012年职称英语综合类新增文章—阅读理解1.第一篇：Telling Tales about People讲述关于人们的故事2.第八篇：The Changing Middle Class变化中的中产阶级3.第十篇：A Letter from Alan艾伦的来信4.第十一篇：The Development of Ballet芭蕾舞的发展5.第十六篇：The Sahara 撒哈拉沙漠6.*第十七篇：Eiffel Is an Eyeful（2011年教材中为C级文章）引人注目的埃菲尔铁塔7.*第十八篇：Goal of American Education（2011年教材中为C级文章）美国教育的目标8.*第十九篇：The Family家庭9.*第二十篇：Tales of the Terrible Past讲述可怕的过去10.*第二十一篇：Spacing in Animals（2011年教材中为C级文章）动物的空间距离11.*第二十二篇：Some Things We Know about Language（2011年教材中为C级文章）我们知道的关于语言的一些事情12.*第二十三篇：The Only Way Is Up（2011年教材中为C级文章）只好向上13.*第二十四篇：Clone Farm（2011年教材中为C级文章）克隆农场14.*第二十五篇：Income（2011年教材中为C级文章）收入15.*第二十六篇：Seeing the World Centuries Ago看许久以前的世界16.*第二十七篇：Importance of Services（2011年教材中为C级文章）服务业的重要性17.*第二十八篇：The National Park Service（2011年教材中为C级文章）国家公园的服务机构18.*第二十九篇：Find Yourself Packing It On? Blame Friends（2011年教材中为C级文章）发现自己变胖了？这得责怪朋友们19.*第三十篇："Lucky" Lord Lucan - Alive or Dead“幸运的”鲁肯伯爵一是死是活20.*第三十三篇：Oseola McCarty老妇人Oseola McCarty21.+第三十四篇：To Have and Have Not逃亡22.+第三十五篇：Going Her Own Way选择她自己的路23.+第三十六篇：A Tale of Scottish Rural Life（2011年教材中为B级文章）一个关于苏格兰乡村生活的故事24.+第三十七篇：Pop Music in Africa非洲的流行音乐25.+第三十八篇：Why So Many Children为什么有这么多的孩子26.+第三十九篇：Eat to Live（2011年教材中为B级文章）为了活着吃饭27.+第四十篇：Narrow Escape（2011年教材中为B级文章）美国疾病预防新政策28.+第四十七篇：Narrow Escape九死一生第一篇Telling Tales about PeopleOne of the most common types of nonfiction, and one that many people enjoy reading, is stories about people's lives. These stories fall into three general categories: autobiography, memoir, and biography.An autobiography is the story of a person's life written by himself or herself. Often it begins with the person's earliest recollections and ends in the present. Autobiography writers may not be entirely objective in the way they present themselves. However, they offer the reader a good look at the way they are and what makes them that way. People as diverse as Benjarmin Franklin and Helen Keller have written autobiographies. 1Other writers, such as James Joyce，have written thinly fictionalized accounts of their lives. These are not autobiographies，but they are very close to it.Memoirs, strictly speaking, are autobiographical accounts that focus as much on the events of the times as on the life of the author. 2Memoir writers typically use these events as backdrops for their lives. They describe them in detail and discuss their importance. Recently，though，the term memoir seems to be becoming interchangeab1e with autobiography. A memoir nowadays may or may not deal with the outside world.Biographies are factual accounts of someone else's life. In many senses，these may be the hardest of the three types to write. Autobiography writers know the events they write about because they lived them. But biography writers have to gather information from as many different sources as possible. Then they have to decide which facts to include. Their goal is to present a balanced picture of a person，not one that is overly positive or too critical. A fair well-presented biography may take years to research and write.词汇：backdrop /'b k,dr?p/ n. 背景interchangeable /int? 't?end??bl/ adj. 可转换的注释：1. People as diverse as Benjamin Franklin and Helen Keller have written autobiographies. 就像本杰明富兰克林和海伦凯勒一样，各种各样的人们已经写了自传。
2012年职称英语背诵模板(卫生类类)
3) Which of the following is NOT one of the effects of multivitamins mentioned in the passage.9
1) To produce better and lighter building materials.
2) By lighting up in the presence of a targeted molecule.
3) By making a drug target the focus of a disease.
2012年职称英语（卫生类）阅读理解中英文背诵模板
注意：凡是目录中没有标注的为C级文章，凡是目录中标注*的为B级文章，凡是目录中标注+的为A级文章，
第一篇Bringing Nanotechnology to Health Care for the Poor
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Bringing Nanotechnology to Health Care for the Poor
3．Cooking Oil Fumes Cause Tumor（卫C）
1）Patients with lung cancer become younger, especially females.
2）Lung cancer.
3）Irritated eyes and throat.
4）Surprised
②吃盐过多会增加 的危险。
②大多数美国成年人的日食盐量是
③为了改善血压，人们应该。
重点 2012年职称英语卫生类A级新增文章-阅读理解&完形填空
二、2012年教材新增文章（一）阅读理解1.第八篇：Eat Healthy2.*第十九篇：Prolonging Human Life3.*第二十四篇：Sleep Lets Brain File Memories4.+第三十四篇：Who Wants to Live Forever?5.+第四十篇：Some People Do Not Taste Taste Salt Like Others（二）完形填空1.第二篇：Going on a diet2.*第八篇：Old And Active3.+第十二篇：Dreams4.+第十四篇：A Health Profile5.+第十五篇：Life Expectancy in the Last Hundred Y ears第八篇Eat Healthy"Clean your plate!" and "Be a member of the clean-plate -club!" Just about every kid in the US has heard this from a parent or grandparent. Often，it's accompanied by an appeal:" Just think about those starving orphans in Africa!" Sure, we should be grateful for every bite of food. Unfortunately, many people in the US take too many bites. Instead of staying "clean the plate", perhaps we should save some food for tomorrow. According to news reports, US restaurants are partly to blame for the growing bellies. A waiter puts a plate of food in front of each customer, with two to four times the amount recommended by the government, according to a USA Today story. Americans traditionally associate quantity with value and most restaurants try to give them that. They prefer to have customers complain about too much food rather than too little. Barbara Rolls, a nutrition professor at Pennsylvania State University, told USA Today that restaurant portion sizes began to grow in the 1970s, the same time that the American waistline began to expand.Health experts have tried to get many restaurants to serve smaller portions. Now, apparently，some customers are calling for this too. The restaurant industry trade magazine QSR reported last month that 57 percent of more than 4,000 people surveyed believe restaurants serve portions that are too large; 23 percent had no opinion; 20 percent disagreed. But a closer look at the survey indicates that many Americans who can't afford fine dining still prefer large portions. Seventy percent of those earning at least $150,000 per year prefer smaller portions; but only 45 percent of those earning less than $25,000 want smaller.It's not that working class Americans don't want to eat healthy. It's just that，after long hours at low-paying jobs，getting less on their plate hardly seems like a good deal. They live from paycheck to paycheck ，happy to save a little money for next year's Christmas presents.第十九篇Prolonging Human LifeProlonging human life has increased the size of the human population. Many people alive today would have died of childhood diseases if they had been born 100 years ago. Because more people live longer, there are more people around at any given time. In fact, it is a decrease in death rates, not an increase in birthrates, that has led to the population explosion.Prolonging human life has also increased the dependency load. In all societies, people who are disabled or too young or too old to work are dependent on the rest of society to provide for them. In hunting and gathering cultures, old people who could not keep up might be left behind to die. In times of famine, infants might be allowed to die because they could not survive if their parents starved, whereas if the parents survived they could have another child. In most contemporary societies, people feel a moral obligation to keep people alive whether they can work or not. We have a great many people today who live past the age at which they want to work or are able to work; we also have rules which require people to retire at a certain age. Unless these people were able to save money for their retirement, somebody else must support them. In the United States many retired people live on social security checks which are so little that they must live in near poverty. Older people have more illness than young or middle-aged people; unless they have wealth or private or government insurance, they must often "go on welfare" if they have a serious illness.When older people become senile or too weak and ill to care for themselves, they create grave problemsfor their families. In the past and in some traditional cultures, they would be cared for at home until they died. Today, with most members of a household working or in school, there is often no one at home who can care for a sick or weak person. To meet this need, a great many nursing homes and convalescent hospitals have been built. These are often profit-making organizations, although some are sponsored by religious and other nonprofit groups. While a few of these institutions arc good, most of them are simply "dumping grounds" for the dying in which "care" is given by poorly paid, overworked, and under-skilled personnel.*第二十四篇Sleep Lets Brain File MemoriesTo sleep. Perchance to file? Findings published online this week by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences further support the theory that the brain organizes a nd stows memories formed during the day while the rest of the body is catching zzz's.Gyorgy Buzsaki of Rutgers University5 and his colleagues analyzed the brain waves of sleeping rats and mice. Specifically, they examined the electrical activity emanating from6 the somatosensory neocortex (an area that processes sensory information) and the hippocampus, which is a center for learning and memory. The scientists found that oscillations in brain waves from the two regions appear to be intertwined. So-called sleep spindles (bursts of activity from the neocortex) were followed tens of milliseconds later by beats in the hippocampus known as ripples. The team posits that this interplay between the two brain regions is a key step in memory consolidation. A second study, also published online this week by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, links age-associated memory decline to high glucose levels.Previous research had shown that individuals with diabetes suffer from increased memory problems. In the new work, Antonio Convit of New Y ork University School of Medicine and his collaborators studied 30 people whose average age was 69 to investigate whether sugar levels, which tend to increase with age, affect memory in healthy people as well. The scientists administered11 recall tests, brain scans and glucose tolerance tests, which measure how quickly sugar is absorbed from the blood by the body's tissues. Subjects with the poorest memory recollection, the team discovered, also displayed the poorest glucose tolerance. In addition, their brain scans showed more hippocampus shrinkage than those of subjects better able to absorb blood sugar."Our study suggests that this impairment12 may contribute to the memory deficits13 that occur as people age." Convit says. "And it raises the intriguing possibility that improving glucose tolerance could reverse some age-associated problems in cognition.14" Exercise and weight control can help keep glucose levels in check15, so there may be one more reason to go to the gym.第三十四篇Who Want to Live Forever?If your doctor could give you a drug that would let you live a healthy life for twice as long ，would you take it?The good news is that we may be drawing near to that date，Scientists have already extended the lives of flies ，worms and mice in laboratories. Many now think that using genetic treatments we will soon be able to extend human life to at least 140 years. This seems a great idea. Think of how much more time we could spend chasing our dreams，spending time with our loved ones，watching our families grow and have families of their own."Longer life would give us a chance to recover from our mistakes and promote long term thinking," says Dr Gregory Stock of the University Of California School Of Public Health. "It would also raise productivity by adding to the year we can work."Longer lives don't just affect the people who live them. They also affect society as a whole. "We have war，poverty，all sorts of issues around，and I don't think any of them would be at all helped by having people live longer," says US bioethicist Daniel Callahan."The question is 'What will we get as a society? 'I suspect it won't be a better society."It would certainly be a very different society. People are already finding it more difficult to stay married. Divorce rates are rising. What would happen to marriage in a society where people lived for 140 years? And what would happen to family life if nine or 10 generations of the same family were all alive at the same time?Research into ageing may enable women to remain fertile for longer. And that raises the prospect of having 100-year-old parents，or brothers and sisters born 50 years apart. We think of an elder sibling as someone who can protect us and offer help and advice. That would be hard to do if that sibling came from a completely different generation.Working life would also be affected，especially if the retirement age was lifted. More people would stay in work for longer. That would give us the benefits of age-skill，wisdom and good judgment.On the other hand，more people working for longer would create greater competition for jobs. It would make it more difficult for younger people to find a job. Top posts would be dominated by the same few individuals，making career progress more difficult. And how easily would a 25-year-old employee be able to communicate with a 125-year-old boss?Y oung people would be a smaller part of a society in which people lived to 140. It may be that such a society would place less importance on guiding and educating young people，and more on making life comfortable for the old.And society would feel very different if more of its members were older. There would be more wisdom，but less energy. Y oung people like to move about. Old people like to sit still. Y oung people tend to act without thinking. Old people tend to think without acting. Y oung people are curious and like to experience different things. Old people are less enthusiastic about change. In fact ，they are less enthusiastic about everything. The effect of anti-ageing technology is deeper than we might think. But as the science advances，we need to think about these changes now. " If this could ever happen，then we'd better ask what kind of society we want to get，" says Daniel Callahan. "We had better not go anywhere near it until we have figure those problems out."词汇:mice / mais / n. 老鼠(复数) sibling / 'sibli? / n. 兄弟姐妹bioethicist // n. 生物伦理学家注释:1. brothers and sisters born 50 years apart 出生年份相隔50年的兄弟姐妹2. We had better not go anywhere near it 我们最好离它远点，这里的it指代前面讲的anti-ageing technology.练习:1. Which of the following is NOT mentioned as one of the things that living longer might enable an individual to do?A．Spending more time with his family.B．Having more education.C．Realizing more dreams.D．Working longer.2. Which of the following is implied in the sixth paragraph?A Marriages in the US today are quite unstable.B More and more people in the US today want to get married.C Living longer would make it easier for people to maintain their marital ties.D If people live longer ，they would stay in marriage longer.3. All of the following are possible effects living longer might have on working life EXCEPTA Communication between employers and employees would be more difficult.B More money would be used by employees in payment of their employees.C The job market would be more competitive.D It would be more difficult for young people to be promoted to top positions.4. An important feature of a society in which people live a long life is thatA．it places more emphasis on educating the young.B．it is both wise and energetic.C．it lacks the curiosity to experiment what is new.D．it welcomes changes.5. Which of the following best describes Callahan's attitude to anti-ageing technology ?A． Optimistic B． Pessimistic C．Reserved .D．Negative.答案与题解：1. B 长寿使个人能做的事主要在第三、四段里讲到，作者没有提到长寿可以让人更多地接受教育。
2012年职称英语卫生类A级新增文章-阅读理解(含练习解析及译文)
2012年职称英语卫生类A级新增文章-阅读理解(含练习解析及译文)Some People Do Not Taste Salt Like OthersLow—salt foods may be harder for some people to like than others，according to a study by a Penn State College of Agricultural Sciencesl food scientist．The research indicates that genetic factors influence some of the difference in the levels of salt we like to eat．Those conclusions are important because recent，well—publicized efforts to reduce the salt content in food2 have left many people struggling to accept fare that simply does not taste as good to them as it does to others3，pointed out John Hayes，assistant professor of food science，who was lead investigator4 0n the study．Diets high in salt Can increase the risk of high blood pressure and stroke．That is why public health experts and food companies are working together on ways to help consumers lower salt intake through foods that are enjoyable to eat．This study increasesunderstanding of salt preference and consumption．The research involved 87 carefully screened participants who sampled salty foods such as soup and chips，on multiple occasions，spread out over weeks5．Test subjects were 45：men and 42 women, reportedly healthy，ranging in age from 20 t0 40 years．The sample was composed of individuals who were not actively modifying their dietary intake and did not smoke cigarettes．They rated the intensity of taste on a commonly used scientific scale，ranging from barely detectable to strongest sensation of any kind．“Most of us like the taste of salt．However，some individuals eat more salt，both because they like the taste of saltiness more，and also because it is needed to block other unpleasant tastes in food,”said Hayes. “Supertasters, people who experience tastes more intensely, consume more salt than nontasters do. Snack foods have saltiness as their primary flavor, andbitter．”he said．“Response to bitter compounds is one of many ways to identify biological differences in food preference because supertastin7 is not limited to bitterness．词汇：Publicize v．引起公众对…的注意；(用广告)宣传Dietary adj．饮食的；规定食物的Ferment v．(使)发酵Geneticist n．遗传学家Acuity n．敏锐；尖锐注释：1．Penn State College of Agricultural Sciences：即Penn State University--College of Agricultural Sciences宾州州立大学农学院。
2012职称英语教材新增阅读文章包括答案(仅供参考)综合
Telling Tales about PeopleOne of the most common types of nonfiction, and one that many people enjoy reading, is stories about people's lives. These stories fall into three general categories: autobiography, memoir, and biography.An autobiography is the story of a person's life written by himself or herself. Often it begins with the person's earliest recollections and ends in the present. Autobiography writers may not be entirely objective in the way they present themselves. However, they offer the reader a good look at the way they are and what makes them that way. People as diverse as Benjarmin Franklin and Helen Keller have written autobiographies. 1Other writers, such as James Joyce，have written thinly fictionalized accounts of their lives. These are not autobiographies，but they are very close to it.Memoirs, strictly speaking, are autobiographical accounts that focus as much on the events of the times as on the life of the author. 2Memoir writers typically use these events as backdrops for their lives. They describe them in detail and discuss their importance. Recently，though，the term memoir seems to be becoming interchangeab1e with autobiography. A memoir nowadays may or may not deal with the outside world.Biographies are factual accounts of someone else's life. In many senses，these may be the hardest of the three types to write. Autobiography writers know the events they write about because they lived them. But biography writers have to gather information from as many different sources as possible. Then they have to decide which facts to include. Their goal is to present a balanced picture of a person，not one that is overly positive or too critical. A fair well-presented biography may take years to research and write.词汇：backdrop n. 背景interchangeable adj. 可转换的注释：1. People as diverse as Benjamin Franklin and Helen Keller have written autobiographies. 就像本杰明?富兰克林和海伦?凯勒一样，各种各样的人们已经写了自传。
2012年职称英语综合类阅读理解新增文章详解11
2012年职称英语综合类阅读理解新增文章详解112012年职称英语综合类阅读理解新增文章篇目职业培训教育网2011-12-28 10:58【大中小】【我要纠错】编者按：2012年职称英语考试教材已经开始陆续领取，下面是职业培训教育网为考生整理的2012年职称英语考试用书阅读判断新增篇目，祝学习愉快！阅读理解（15篇）第一篇Telling Tales about People第八篇The Changing Middle Class第十篇A Letter from Alan第十一篇The Development of Ballet第十六篇The Sahara*第十九篇The Family*第二十篇Tales of the Terrible Past*第二十六篇Seeing the World Centuries Ago*第三十篇“Lucky” Lord Lucan ----- Alive or Deadplanes to see whose would fly the furthest.1 Having nothing better to do，I joined in and won five，and then took the opportunity to escape with my profit. Despite the evil-looking clouds，I had to get out for a while.I headed for a shop on the other side of the street. Unlike the others，it didn't have a sign shouting its name and business，and instead of the usual impersonal modern lighting，there was an appealing glow inside. Strangely nothing was displayed in the window. Not put off by this，I went inside.It took my breath away. I didn't know where to look, where to start. On one wall there hung three hand-stitched American quilts that were in such wonderful condition they might have been newly-made. I came across tin toys and antique furniture, and on the wall in front of me, a 1957 Stratocaster guitar , also in excellent condition. A card pushed between the strings said $50. I ran my hand along a long shelf ofrecords, reading their titles. And there was more...“Can I help you？” She startled me. I hadn't even seen the woman behind the counter come in. The way she looked at me, so directly and with such power. It was a look of such intensity that for a moment I felt as if I were wrapped in some kind of magnetic or electrical field. I found it hard to take and almost turned away. But though it was uncomfortable. I was fascinated by the experience of her looking straight into me, and by the feeling that I was neither a stranger, nor strange, to her.Besides amusement her expression showed sympathy. It was impossible to tell her age；she reminded me faintly of my grandmother because, although her eyes were friendly, I could see that she was not a woman to fall out with. I spoke at last. 'I was just looking really,' I said, though secretly wondering how much of the stuff I could cram into the bus.The woman turned away and went at once towards a back room, indicating that I should follow her. But it in no way lived up to the first room. The light made me feel peculiar, too. It came from an oil lamp that was hung from the centre of the ceiling and created huge shadows over everything. There were no rare electric guitars, no old necklaces, no hand-painted boxes with delicate flowers. It was also obvious that it must have taken years, decades, to collect so much rubbish, so many old documents arid papers.I noticed some old books, whose gold lettering had faded, making their titles impossible to read. 'They look interesting,' I said, with some hesitation. 'To be able to understand that kind of writing you must first have had a similar experience,' she said clearly. She noted the confused look on my face, but didn't add anything.She reached up for a small book which she handed to me. 'This is the best book I can giveyou at the moment,' she laughed. “If you use it.”I opened the book to find it full. or rather empty, with blank white pages, but paid her the few dollars she asked for it, becoming embarrassed when I realised the notes were still folded into little paper planes. I put the book in my pocket, thanked her and left.词汇：impersonal /im'p?:s?n?l/ adj. 客观的；非个人的；没有人情味的；[语] 非人称的n.[语]非人称动词；不具人格的事物antique /æn'ti:k/ adj. 古老的，年代久远的n. 古董，古玩startle /'stɑ:tl/ vt. vi. 使吓一跳，使惊奇n.惊愕，惊恐arid / 'ærid/ adj. 干旱的，枯萎的。
2012年职称英语(卫生类)阅读理解中英文背诵模板
1) The main readers of medical journals are
2) Which of the following statements is NOT true?
3) How many major types of articles are mentioned in the passage?
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1) health professionals.
2) Most medical journals publish only online.
3) Five.
4) a review article.
5) articles published in that journal.
3．Cooking Oil Fumes Cause Tumor（卫C）
1）Patients with lung cancer become younger, especially females.
2）Lung cancer.
3）Irritated eyes and throat.
4）Surprised
2012年职称英语（卫生类）阅读理解中英文背诵模板
注意：凡是目录中没有标注的为C级文章，凡是目录中标注*的为B级文章，凡是目录中标注+的为A级文章，
第一篇Bringing Nanotechnology to Health Care for the Poor
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Bringing Nanotechnology to Health Care for the Poor
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职称英语专家剖析2012年教材新增文章
一、2012年教材新增文章总览1、2012年新增文章预览2、2011年文章替换掉的文章阅读理解被替换掉的文章综合类阅读理解第一篇Eat Healthy第八篇The State of Marriage Today第十篇New York—the Melting Pot第十一篇Late-night Drinking第十六篇Driven to Distraction*第十九篇Taxi Riding*第二十篇Sleep Lets Brain File Memories*第二十六篇Forecasting Methods*第三十篇Wikipedia Imposes New Curbs On Editing Articles *第三十三篇A Ride in a Cable-car+第三十四篇Career With a Uniform+第三十五篇Dorm Food More Comfy+第三十七篇Who Wants to Live Forever?+第三十八篇Excessive Demands on Young People+第四十七篇Spoilt for Choice理工类阅读理解第六篇Weaving with Light第十九篇Prolonging Human Life*第三十八篇Longer Lives for Wild Elephants*第四十篇Air Pollution Cloud Measured on Both Sides of Pacific+第四十五篇Some People Do Not Taste Salt Like Others+第四十六篇Marvelous Metamaterials卫生类阅读理解第八篇Attitudes to AIDS Now*第十九篇Adaptation of Living ings*第二十四篇Preventing Child Maltreatment+第三十四篇Be Alert to Antimicrobial Resistance+第四十篇 Thirsty in Karachi卫生类完形填空第二篇Influenza【流行性感冒】*第八篇Food Safety and Foodborne Illness【食品安全与食源性疾病】+第十二篇Pandemic H1N1 2009【2009年甲型H1N1流感大流行】+第十四篇 Homosexuals【同性恋者】+第十五篇 Is Your Child’s Stomach Pain All in His Head?【你的孩子肚疼是他想象出来的吗？】理工类完形填空第三篇What Is the Coolest Gas in the Universe?【宇宙中哪种气体温度最低】第十篇Less I More【更少是更多】*第十一篇China to Help Europe Develop GPS Rival【中国帮助欧洲发展全球定位系统的竞争】*第十二篇Smoking Can Increase Depressive Symptoms in Teens【吸烟会加重青少年的抑郁情绪】+第十三篇Cell Phone Lets Your Secret Out【手机泄露了你的秘密】+第十五篇 Young Adults Who Exercise Get Higher IQ Scores【运动的年轻人智商更高】二、2012年综合类教材新增文章变化分析今年综合类教材文章整体呈现一个大洗牌的趋势，阅读理解新增15篇文章，完形填空替换全部的15篇文章，此外阅读判断，概括大意和完成句子，补全短文也相应的各新增两篇文章。
2012年职称英语考试(综合类A级)阅读理解答案及翻译
2012年职称英语考试（综合类A级）阅读理解答案及译文 (2)+34 （新增）To Have or Have Not（逃亡） (2)+35 （新增）Going Her Own Way（选择她自己的路） (2)+36 A Tale of Scottish Rural Life（苏格兰乡村生活的故事） (2)+37 （新增）Pop Music in Africa（非洲的流行音乐） (2)+38 （新增）Why So Many Children（为什么有这么多的孩子） (2)+39 Eat to Live（为了活着吃饭） (3)+40 New US Plan for Disease Prevention（为预防疾病的新美国计划） (3)+41 The Operation of International Airlines（国际航空公司的经营） (3)+42 Sauna（桑拿浴） (3)+ 43 Can Buildings Be Designed to Resist Terrorist Attack?（建筑设计能使建筑抵御恐怖袭击吗？） (4)+44 Americans Get Touchy（越来越爱肢体接触的美国人） (4)+45 Women Staying in Mini-Skirts for Longer（女性在迷你裙上逗留的时间更长） (4)+46 Defending the Theory of Evolution Still Seems Needed（捍卫进化论仍必要） (4)+ 47 （新增）Narrow Escape（九死一生） (5)+ 48 Finding Enlightenment in Scotland（苏格兰启蒙运动） (5)+49 The Beginning of American Literature（美洲文学的起源） (5)+50 Older Volcanic Eruptions（远古火山爆发） (6)2012年职称英语考试（综合类A级）阅读理解答案及译文+34 （新增）To Have or Have Not（逃亡）1) Why did the writer want to leave the hotel? 作者为什么想离开旅馆※To have a change of scene. 去看看风景2) What attracted the writer to the shop? 是什么吸引作者到那个商店※The light coming from inside. 商店里的灯光3) The writer found the stock in the front of the shop__.作者发现小店前面存放的物品怎样※of top quality质量上乘4) What was unusual about the way the woman looked at him? 那女人看他的方式有什么不寻常※She seemed to know him well她看起来认识他5)The writer disliked the back room because__.作者不喜欢后屋的原因是※he saw nothing he really liked没有他喜欢的东西+35 （新增）Going Her Own Way（选择她自己的路）1) Maria wanted to attend__.玛丽亚想去个怎样的学校※technical high school. 技校2) In those days, most Italian girls__.当时大多数的意大利女孩的选择是※did not go to high school不上高中3) You can infer from this passage that__.从这篇文章可以推论得出※only boys usually attended technical schools通常只有男孩儿才上技校4) Maria' s father probably__.玛丽亚的父亲很可能※had very traditional views about women对女性的态度很传统5) High school teachers in Italy in those days were__.当时意大利的高中老师※quite strict非常严格+36 A Tale of Scottish Rural Life（苏格兰乡村生活的故事）1) What is Sunset Song mainly about? 歌曲Sunset Song主要是关于※The lives of rural Scottish farmers苏格兰乡村的生活2) Which statement is Not true of Chris? 关于Chris的说法中不正确的是※She married only once她只结过一次婚3) What is the opening section of the novel mainly concerned with? 小说开篇部分主要是关于※The history of Kinraddie. Kinraddie的历史4) Who are responsible for Ewan’s death, according to Chris? 在Chris看来，谁应该为Ewan的死负责※The Germans德国人5) The word sunset occurring in the title of the novel most probably means___.小说题目中Sunset这个词最可能的意思是※The end of traditional life传统生活的结束+37 （新增）Pop Music in Africa（非洲的流行音乐）1) This passage is about how African pop music is__.文章是关于非洲流行乐为什么会※more serious than most pop music比其他流行乐更严肃2) For people outside of Africa, African pop music is__.对非洲以外的人来说，非洲流行乐※both familiar and different既熟悉又不同3) The musicians mentioned in this passage all__.文中提及的音乐家们都※write about serious problems写严肃题材的歌曲4) Eric Wainaina__.※studied music in Boston在波士顿学习音乐5) Witness Mwaijaga writes about the problems of women partly because__.写女人问题的原因是※she has had a difficult life herself她自己的困难经历+38 （新增）Why So Many Children（为什么有这么多的孩子）1) In a traditional agricultural economy, a large family＿.在传统的农业经济里，一个大的家庭※can be an advantage可能是个优势2) When countries become industrialized, __.当国家工业化后※the birth rate generally goes down生育率一般会下降3) According to this passage, Italy today is an example of an__.根据短文，如今的意大利是__的例子※industrialized country with a low birth rate低生育率的工业化国家4) Saudi Arabia is mentioned in the passage because it shows that__.沙特在文中被到，是为了说明※factors other than the economy influence birth rate经济以外，影响生育率的其他因素5) In Mexico, Thailand, and Indonesia, the government__.在墨西哥，泰国和印尼，政府※has tried to improve the condition of women曾努力改善女性的生存环境+39 Eat to Live（为了活着吃饭）1) According to the passage, which of the following is NOT true? 不正确的是※We have to begin dieting from childhood.童年时代就开始减肥2) Why does the author mention an elderly mouse in paragraph 2?作者提到高龄鼠的目的是※To illustrate the effect of meager（不足的）food on mice.证明节食对老鼠的影响3) What can be inferred about completely normally fed mice mentioned in the passage?从正常喂养的老鼠中可以推断出※They are more likely to suffer from inflammation.它们更可能得炎症4) According to the author, which of the following most interested the researchers?研究者最感兴趣的是※The mice that started dieting in old age.老年开始节食的老鼠5) According to the last two paragraphs, Spindler believes that.Spindler认为※Dieting is not a good method to give us health and a long life.节食并不是带来健康与长寿的方法+40 New US Plan for Disease Prevention（为预防疾病的新美国计划）1) Which of the following is NOT true of chronic diseases in the US?下面关于美国的慢性病哪个选项是错误的※They often result in unhealthy lifestyles.他们经常会导致不健康的生活方式2) The author mentions all the following as ways of disease prevention EXCEPT作者没有提到预防疾病的方法是※higher survival rate for cancer.更高的癌症存活率3) The article indicates that more money spent on disease prevention will mean文章指出更多的钱用于预防疾病将意味着※much less money needed for disease treatment.更少的钱用于治病上4) The $15 million program is aimed at一千五百万的项目的目标是※promoting disease prevention.促进预防疾病5) Early cancer screening can help reduce significantly早期癌症的屏蔽可以帮助减少※cancer death rate癌症的死亡率+41 The Operation of International Airlines（国际航空公司的经营）1) According to the passage, in operating airlines it is essential to根据文章，经营一家航空公司的关键是※cater to the need of passengers sitting at both ends of the jets.满足坐经济舱和头等舱顾客的需求2) The following are all mentioned as reasons why the airlines are having a hard time EXCEPT that哪项不是造成航空业面临困境的原因？※the tourist industry is experiencing an all-time low.旅游业正在经历历史的一个低点。
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2012年职称英语卫生类A级新增文章阅读理解Who Want to Live Forever?（谁想永生？）If your doctor could give you a drug that would let you live a healthy life for twice as long，would you take it?The good news is that we may be drawing near to that date，Scientists have already extended the lives of flies ，worms and mice in laboratories. Many now think that using genetic treatments we will soon be able to extend human life to at least 140 years. This seems a great idea. Think of how much more time we could spend chasing our dreams，spending time with our loved ones，watching our families grow and have families of their own."Longer life would give us a chance to recover from our mistakes and promote long term thinking," says Dr Gregory Stock of the University Of California School Of Public Health. "It would also raise productivity by adding to the year we can work."Longer lives don't just affect the people who live them. They also affect society as a whole. "We have war，poverty，all sorts of issues around，and I don't think any of them would be at all helped by having people live longer," says US bioethicist Daniel Callahan."The question is 'What will we get as a society? 'I suspect it won't be a better society."It would certainly be a very different society. People are already finding it more difficult to stay married. Divorce rates are rising. What would happen to marriage in a society where people lived for 140 years? And what would happen to family life if nine or 10 generations of the same family were all alive at the same time?Research into ageing may enable women to remain fertile for longer. And that raises the prospect of having 100-year-old parents，or brothers and sisters born 50 years apart. We think of an elder sibling as someone who can protect us and offer help and advice. That would be hard to do if that sibling came from a completely different generation.Working life would also be affected，especially if the retirement age was lifted. More people would stay in work for longer. That would give us the benefits of age-skill，wisdom and good judgment.On the other hand，more people working for longer would create greater competition for jobs. It would make it more difficult for younger people to find a job. Top posts would be dominated by the same few individuals，making career progress more difficult. And how easily would a 25-year-old employee be able to communicate with a 125-year-old boss?Young people would be a smaller part of a society in which people lived to 140. It may be that such a society would place less importance on guiding and educating young people，and more on making life comfortable for the old.And society would feel very different if more of its members were older. There would be more wisdom，but less energy. Young people like to move about. Old people like to sit still. Young people tend to act without thinking. Old people tend to think without acting. Young people are curious and like to experience different things. Old people are less enthusiastic about change. In fact ，they are less enthusiastic about everything.The effect of anti-ageing technology is deeper than we might think. But as the science advances，we need to think about these changes now. " If this could ever happen，then we'd better ask what kind of society we want to get，" says Daniel Callahan. "We had better not go anywhere near it until we have figure those problems out."词汇:mice / mais / n. 老鼠(复数)sibling / 'sibli? / n. 兄弟姐妹bioethicist // n. 生物伦理学家注释:1. brothers and sisters born 50 years apart 出生年份相隔50年的兄弟姐妹2. We had better not go anywhere near it 我们最好离它远点，这里的it指代前面讲的 anti-ageing technology.练习:1. Which of the following is NOT mentioned as one of the things that living longer might enable an individual to do?A． Spending more time with his family.B． Having more education.C． Realizing more dreams.D． Working longer.2. Which of the following is implied in the sixth paragraph?A．Marriages in the US today are quite unstable.B．More and more people in the US today want to get married.C．Living longer would make it easier for people to maintain their marital ties. D．If people live longer ，they would stay in marriage longer.3. All of the following are possible effects living longer might have on working life EXCEPTA．Communication between employers and employees would be more difficult. B．More money would be used by employees in payment of their employees. C．The job market would be more competitive.D．It would be more difficult for young people to be promoted to top positions.4. An important feature of a society in which people live a long life is that A．it places more emphasis on educating the young.B．it is both wise and energetic.C．it lacks the curiosity to experiment what is new.D．it welcomes changes.5. Which of the following best describes Callahan 's attitude to anti-ageing technology ?A．Optimistic.B．Pessimistic.C．Reserved.D．Negative.答案与题解：1. B 长寿使个人能做的事主要在第三、四段里讲到，作者没有提到长寿可以让人更多地接受教育。