Longevity Hill in the Summer Palace is about high.
A.50 metres
B.60 metres
C.70 metres
D.80 metres
A.50 metres
B.60 metres
C.70 metres
D.80 metres
The two main elements of the garden are Longevity Hill (万寿山) and Kunming Lake. The garden is divided into three parts: a political activity area; the living quarters of the empress; and a scenic area.
The buildings on the southern slope of Longevity Hill are characteristic of the garden. At the foot of Longevity Hill is the 728-meter-long passageway(长廊) which links the three areas together.
The bridges of the western causeway of Kunming Lake are replicas(复制品) of the bridges of famous Su and Bai causeways(堤道) on West Lake in Hangzhou.
Back Lake at the northern foot of Longevity Hill is natural and peaceful. On its bank is Suzhou Street, a replica of a commercial street in the old days.
The Summer Palace was opened to the public in 1924 and it takes one day to view it in detail. Public buses or special sightseeing coaches can take you there.
Summer Palace in Beijing
The location of the Summer Palace:【46】of Beijing.
The usage of the garden: for emperors'【47】.
Something linking the three areas:【48】.
The character of Back Lake:【49】.
The transportation tools to the garden: buses or【50】.
听力原文:M: Are you going to visit Uncle Wang's factory next week?
F: No. We're going to the West Hill Farm.
What are they going to do next week?
A.Going to visit West Hill.
B.Going to visit the West Hill Farm.
C.Going to visit Uncle Wang's factory
On the face of it, this should not be happening.
Healthier nations are usually wealthier nations. The United States is the third richest of the 30 developed nations belonging to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), after Luxembourg and Norway. But it now ranks 22nd in life expectancy—down from 12th for women and 18th for men in 1980.
Could the problem be inadequate healthcare spending?
No. The US spends $1 of every $7 of its gross domestic product on healthcare—far more than any other OECD nation, which typically devotes less than $1 in $10 of GDP to the sector. Per person, that works out to an extra $1,800 compared with the Swiss or $2,300 compared with the Canadians, even though both those groups live longer than Americans.
So what's at work?
One factor could be diet, according to a new study on longevity by Alicia Munnell, director of the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College, and two students, Robert Hatch and James Lee①. Americans have been getting fatter, and physicians maintain that putting on weight often shrinks a person's life span.
On the positive side, US alcohol and tobacco consumption is more moderate than th'e OECD average.
Another factor holding back longevity: poverty. The quarter to a third of Americans with low incomes often have less money than the same low-income groups in several other rich countries, points out Mr. Burt-less.
A third factor—inequality—worsens the problem. The most prosperous 10 percent of Americans receive 17 times as much income as those in the bottom 10 percent. In countries with high life expectancies among those at 65—such as Japan, Sweden, and Norway—the top 10 percent makes only five times as much income as those in the bottom, Professor Munnell says.
The US also struggles with inequality in healthcare. While most rich nations have universal coverage, 45 million in the US did not have health insurance last year, according to census statistics—a rise of 5.2 million since the year of 2000②. Millions more have insurance only part of the year.
Many of those without health insurance tend to postpone medical care for chronic problems, thoush they may go to hospital emergency facilities in a crisis.
Thus, a better predicator of life expectancy than GDP may be the average GDP for the bottom 40 percent of the population, notes the Boston College study. Here the US falls in the middle of the pack of rich countries, rather than at the top.
According to the author, people in which country are expected to live longer?
A.The United States.
B.Spain.
C.Greece.
D.New Zealand.
A.prosperity
B.peace
C.hope
D.healthy
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