5.People have been talking about health for a long time because people know the importance of it People,8understanding of health also becomes deeper with the progress in scientific research.Recently the term(術(shù)語)"health"has come to have a wider meaning than it used to.It no longer means just the absence of illness.Today,health means the well-being of your body,your mind and your relationship with other people.This new concept of health is closely related to anotherterm quality of life.Quality of life is the degree of overall satisfaction that a person gets from life.
Why has the emphasis of health shifted(改變)from die absence of disease to a broader focus on the quality of a person's life?One reason for this has to do with the length and conditions of life that people can now expect.Medical advances have made it possible for people today to live longer,healthier lives.Imagine for a monient thal you were bom in the year 1900.You could have expected on average to live until about the age of 47.In contrast (相比之下),if you were bom in the year 1999,you could expect to live to the age of 75.
26.C leads to people,8deeper understanding of health.
A.Common knowledge
B.Better conditions of living
C.Progress in scientific research
D.QuaKty of life
27.Health used to meanD.
A.illness
B.quality of life
C.the well-being of your body
D.the absence of illness
28.According to the passage,to people of today9 health meansB
A.a(chǎn)bsence of illness
B.overall satisfaction with life
C.good conditions of living
D.a(chǎn) long life
29.We can infer from the passageD.
A.nowadays the emphasis of health has a broader focus because of improvements in the quality of food
B.those who were bom before 1900 could not have lived until now
C.those who never fall ill aie the truly healthy people
D.the overall quality of people,8 lives improved greatly in the 20th centuiy
30.This passage is mainly about.C
A.the importance of quality living
B.improving the quality of life
C.different understandings of the term"health"
D.people's expectations of a long and healthy life.