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How long do you think you will live? Many people don't think they will live a long life. How long will you live?
Probably much longer than you think.
In 1992, the University of Michigan's Health and Retirement Study asked 26,000 Americans over the age of 50 the chance of living to the age of 75. Now, researchers at the Brookings Institution checked the results to see if they were right.
In 1992, seven percent of respondents (应答者) gave themselves “zero” chance to reach 75. But in fact, nearly half lived to 75 or longer. Is it amazing?
Among respondents who gave themselves a 50 percent chance of living to 75, 75 percent lived to that age or longer.
And among those who said they were completely certain of living to the age of 75, nearly 8 in 10 did.
“In general, people wildly underestimate (低估) their chances of reaching 75, but you in fact can live longer than you think,” a researcher wrote on the blog. You'll probably live much longer than you think. Life expectancy (预期寿命) in the United States was 78.74 years in 2012, according to World Bank data, and 71 years worldwide.
"There is no clear relationship between how long people think they'll live and how long they actually do. We don5t know the reason of file results. Maybe people's life quality changes a lot but they don't realize,” the researcher said. In fact, respondents who gave themselves a 10 percent chance of living to 75 had at least a 60 percent chance of doing so.
Do you think that you511 live to 75? Just believe that you have a 90 percent chance, and you may probably do.
（1）How many people gave themselves “zero” chance to reach 75?
A. 26,000.
B.13,000.
C.18,200.
D.1,820.
（2）What do Paragraph 3 to Paragraph 5 mainly tell us?
A. People were too old to accept the survey.
B. The results of the survey.
C. Researchers were happy with the results.
D. Few people could live to 75 years old.
（3）What can we NOT know from the passage?
A. The researchers checked the results of the survey in 2012.
B. Among those who were certain of living to the age of 75, nearly 80 percent did.
C. In general, people can live longer than they think.
D. Life expectancy in the world was 71 years in 2012.
（4）What's the best title for the passage?
A. Life and health
B. Study and life
C. How long will you live
D. Exercise and health

Answer 1

【答案】
（1）D
（2）B
（3）A
（4）C
【解析】你会活多久呢？美国的一个研究证明了大多数人会比自己认为的要活得长。
（1）细节理解题。从seven percent of respondents (应答者) gave themselves “zero” chance to reach 75.可知有7%的人，总数是26,000 Americans，26000=1820，故选D。
（2）细节理解题。第3到5段说的是调查的结果，故选B。
（3）细节判断题。从Life expectancy (预期寿命) in the United States was 78.74 years in 2012, according to World Bank data, and 71 years worldwide.可知句子是一般过去时，说明调查结果的检查是2012年以后，故A错误。
（4）主旨概括题。短文第一段点出了文章中心：你会活多久，接下来讲了一个关于这方面的调查，故答案选C。