Question

Read the passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D to answer the questions.

People in the UK enjoy fewer years of good health before they die than the citizens of most comparable European countries as well as Australia and Canada, a major report shows. While life expectancy has improved by 4.2 years in the UK over the two decades, other countries have improved faster. In 2010, Spain topped the league. Its people could expect 70.9 years of healthy life - before disease and disability began to take a toll. Second came Italy, with 70.2 years and third was Australia, on 70.1 years. In the UK, we can expect 68.6 healthy years of life.

Hunt said the UK was a long way behind its global counterparts and called for action by local health commissioners to tackle the five big killers - cancer, heart disease, stroke, respiratory and liver diseases. Drinking and drug use have been the main issues behind the worsening of the UK's ranking in early deaths among adults aged 20-54. In 2010, drugs were the sixth leading cause of death in this age group and alcohol was 18th - up from 32nd and 43rd place respectively 20 years earlier.

Hunt will on Tuesday announce a strategy to tackle cardiovascular disease, which he says could save 30,000 lives a year. "Despite real progress in cutting deaths, we remain a poor relative to our global cousins on many measures of health, something I want to change," he said. "For too long we have been lagging behind and I want the reformed health system to take up this challenge and turn this shocking underperformance around.” However, the problem is only in part to do with hospital care - much of it is about the way we live. Our diet, our drinking and continuing smoking habits all play a part, which assumes its responsibilities on 1 April.

 The word “cardiovascular” in paragraph 2 could be best replaced by ________.

 

 

A. respiratory

B. digestive 

C. skeletal 

D. cardiac

Answer 1

Đáp án D

Từ: “cardiovascular” trong đoạn 2 có thế được thay thế bằng __________.

A. respiratory /ris'paiərətəri/ (adj): (thuộc) hệ hô hấp

B. digestive /di'dʒestiv/ (adj): (thuộc) hệ tiêu hóa

C. skeletal /'skelitl/ (adj): (thuộc) hệ xương

D. cardiac /'ka:diæk/ (adj): (thuộc) tim mạch

Căn cứ vào thông tin đầu đoạn 2:

"Hunt said the UK was along way behind its global counterparts and called for action by local health commissioners to tackle the five big killers - cancer, heart disease, stroke, respiratory and liver diseases. He will on Tuesday announce a strategy to tackle cardiovascular disease, which he says could save 30,000 lives a year.” (Hunt cho biết Vương quốc Anh còn một chặng đường dài để theo kịp bạn bè quốc tế và kêu gọi hành động từ các ủy viên y tế địa phương để giải quyết năm nguy cơ lớn gây tử vong - ung thư, bệnh tim, đột quỵ, hô hấp và bệnh gan. Vào thứ Ba ngày, ông sẽ công bố một chiến lược để giải quyết bệnh tim mạch, cái mà theo ông có thể cứu sống 30.000 người mỗi năm.)