What causes illness?A.germsB.fruitC.air
What causes illness?
A.germs
B.fruit
C.air
What causes illness?
A.germs
B.fruit
C.air
A.Tell us what we can do in our spare time.
B.Is it true that men generally have more stress than women?
C.Tell us what we can do when we have too much stress.
D.Do you think today's world is more stressful than the world of 50 years ago?
A.poor academic results
B.failing to get proper sleep
C.lack of family concern
D.family history of mental illness
A.poor academic results
B.failing to get proper sleep
C.lack of family concern
D.family history of mental illness
According to the health and safety law, employers must ______.
A.make sure that all pressures are removed
B.implement immediate procedures to reduce stress
C.analyze the causes of illness in the workplace
D.carry out a study to identify work-related stress
We can infer from the last paragraph that ________.
A) smokers should not expect to become airline pilots
B) smoking in emergency cases causes mental illness
C) no airline pilots smoke during flights
D) smokers may prove unequal to handing emergency cases
A.smokers should not expect to become airline pilots
B.smoking in emergency cases causes mental illness
C.no airline pilots smoke during flights
D.smokers may prove unequal to handing emergency cases
We can infer from the last paragraph that ______ .
A.smokers should not expect to become airline pilots
B.smoking in emergency cases causes mental illness
C.no airline pilots smoke during flights
D.smokers may prove unequal to handling emergency cases
We can infer from the last paragraph that ______.
A.smokers should not expect to become airline pilots
B.smoking in emergency cases causes mental illness
C.no airline pilots smoke during flights
D.smokers may prove unequal to handling emergency cases
The initiative highlights the cost of chronic diseases -- the leading causes of death in the United States -- and outlines ways that people can prevent them, including better diet and increased exercise.
"In the United States today, 7 of 10 deaths and the vast majority of serious illness, disability health care costs are caused by chronic diseases,." the Health and Human Services Department said in a statement.
The causes are often behavioral -- smoking, poor eating habits and a lack of exercise.
"I am convinced that preventing disease by promoting better health is a smart policy choice for future," Thompson told a conference held to launch the initiative.
"Our current health care system is not structured to deal with the escalating costs of treating diseases that are largely preventable through changes in our lifestyle. choices."
Thompson said heart disease and strokes will cost the country more than $351 billion in 2003.
"These leading causes of death for men and women are largely preventable, yet we as a nation arc not taking the steps necessary for us to lead healthier, longer lives," he said.
The $15 million is slated (计划) to go to communities to promote prevention, pushing for changes as simple as building sidewalks to encourage people to walk more.
Daily exercise such as walking can prevent and even reverse heart disease and diabetes, and prevent cancer and strokes.
The money will also go to community organizations, clinics and nutritionists who are being aged to work together to educate people at risk of diabetes about what they can do to prevent it and encourage more cancer screening.
The American Cancer Society estimates that half of all cancers can be caught by screening, including Pap tests for cervical cancer, mammograms for breast cancer, colonoscopies, and prostate checks.
If such cancers were all caught by early screening, the group estimates that file survival rate for cancer would rise to 95 percent.
Which of the following is NOT true of chronic diseases in the U. S.?
A.They account for 70% of all deaths.
B.They are responsible for most of the health care costs.
C.They often result in unhealthy lifestyles.
D.They are largely preventable.
Millions of Americans survive (生产) in low-paying jobs. The Working Poor (319 pages), by David Shipler, a Pulitzer-winning former reporter, shows just how barely they get by.
In his tour around the world of low-paying jobs, Shipler describes a kind of domino model of a downward cycle." Poor housing can worsen a child's illness, which leads to a call for a doctor, which results in a medical bill that cannot by paid, which ruins a credit record, which raises the interest rate on an auto loan (贷款), which results in the buying of a used car, which causes a mother to be late for work, which limits her pay raise and earning ability, which keeps her to poor housing, which worsens the illness, and so on."
What Shipler aims to do in the book is to produce a picture of all of those dominoes at once, the problems that keep the working poor on the edge of household disaster (灾难). As the conditions for the lowest-paid workers keep worsening, he writes," the low-paid employees have been testing the American belief in hard work."
To those who don't quite make it from paycheck to paycheck, convenience stores in poor neighborhoods lend money at interest rates of about of 20% for a two-week loan. If that can't be repaid, it's gladly rolled over—for another 20%. In the space of a few months, he or she owes twice as much in interest as he borrowed.
Shipler doesn't place all the blame on society. The people he meets often lack the soft skills that employers require, like showing up on time, following directions, even knowing how to comb their hair. To be sure, they need better schools and medical care, but they also need to know better than to use their hard-earned checks to get drunk and disorderly, or go in for ill-advised sex and foolish spending.
The main purpose of this text is to ______.
A.show how the poor can improve their living conditions
B.discuss the reasons why many Americans are poor
C.introduce David Shipler' s book about the poor
D.describe how a reporter has become a writer