试题出自试卷《全国医学统考2016年考博英语真题》

问题1选项
A.He is a man who has a gene of longevity.
B.He is a professor at Boston University.
C.He is the owner of the website Time.com.
D.He is the creator of a website on longevity.

问题2选项
A.Women don't like red meat as much as men.
B.The high estrogen level in women makes the differences.
C.Women develop cardiovascular disease much later than men.
D.The incidence of cardiovascular disease is much lower in women.

问题3选项
A.in their 50s and 60s.
B.in their 60s and 70s.
C.in their 70s and 80s.
D.in their 80s and 90s.

问题4选项
A.Calcium.
B.Lodine (骨关节炎).
C.Zinc.
D.Iron.

问题5选项
A.The reason why red meat is harmful to health.
B.The reason why vegetarian food is so popular.
C.Another possibility for women's longevity.
D.The important role iron plays in cellular reactions.

第1题:D

第2题:C

第3题:A

第4题:D

第5题:C

第1题:

21. According to the passage, what is true about Tom Perls, founder of the New England Centenarian Study?

【解析】细节题。此人是波士顿大学某个研究中心的，但并未说他是教授。故选D

第2题:

22. According to Tom Perls, which of the following might be an important reason that women live longer than men?
【解析】细节题。根据文中所述，女性比男性普遍寿命长的原因是女性患心脑血管疾病的年纪比男性晚。

第3题:

23. According to the passage, when do men usually develop cardiovascular disease?
【解析】细节题。文中说到女性开始患心脑血管疾病的年龄在70多岁到80多岁，比男性在五六十岁时出现这些问题晚10年左右。因此男性通常五六十岁时患心血管疾病。故选A项。

第4题:

24. Compared to men, which of the following is women relatively deficient in?
【解析】细节题。文中说到女性因为例假造成铁元素缺乏。

第5题:

25. What might the next paragraph discuss?
【解析】细节题。本文主题讲到one of the reasons证明下文还要讲其他原因，故选C。

原文：

Across the industrialized world, women still live 5 to 10 years longer than men. Among people over 100 years old, 85% are women, (21) according to Tom Perls, founder of the New England Centenarian Study at Boston University and creator of the website Living to 100.com. Time.com asks him why.
Why do women live longer than men?
(22)One important reason is the big delay—and advantage—women have over men in terms of cardiovascular disease, like heart attack and stroke. (23) Women develop these problems usually in their 70s and 80s, about 10 years later than men who develop them in their 50s and 60s. For a long time, doctors thought the difference was due to estrogen. But studies have shown that this may not be the case, and now we know that giving estrogen to women post-menopause can actually be bad for them.
(24)(25) One reason for that delay in onset of cardiovascular disease could be that women are relatively iron-deficient compared to men—especially younger women, those in their late teens and early 20s—because of menstruation. Iron plays an very important part in the reactions in our cells that produce damaging free radicals, which glue onto cell membranes and DNA, and may translate into aging the cell. In fact, in our diets, red meat is the main source of iron, and lack of iron is probably one major reason that being vegetarian is healthy for you. There was a very good study looking at the intake of red meat and heart disease in Leiden in the Netherlands: in regions where people didn't eat red meat, those populations had half the rate of heart attack and stroke compared to the populations that did eat red meat.