单项选择题

The 20th century may have been the age of scientific advancement but, as the new millennium begins, (1) world health the progress has been surprisingly slow .
Who would believe that there is still no (2) for cancer, that 100 years on diarrhea is still on the top 10 lists of world - wide killers and that tuberculosis usually (3) . Victorian squalor--would have reemerged in the West (4) growing threat
The fact is that despite growing life (5) and economic growth, a billion people entered the 21st century (6) having a share in medical advances--their lives (7) or scarred by disease.
According to the World Health Organization’ s latest report , diarrhea killed 2.2m people in 1998 and yet it is a condition that can easily be (8) through cheap rehydration therapy. It was the sixth biggest killer of 1998, an honour shared with stillbirth and infant deaths (9) cause of death that smacks of the 19th (10) 21st century.
WHO’ s top 10 killers list can almost be divided down the middle (11) infectious diseases--a feature of low income countries--and non - communicable disease, such as cancer and heart trouble, (12) in wealthy nations.
How we die is an indicator of our (13) . In the rich West it is from cancer, cardiovascular disease and psychiatric illnesses (14) In poor countries infectious diseases are still the biggest killers.
It is almost (15) those of us who don’ t have to worry about poverty have brought iii - health upon ourselves. (16) once we would hunt and walk , we now remain sedentary, smoke heavily and put ourselves at (17) of heart disease and cancer.
While we don’ t need to use all our energies (18) where the next meal will come from we have more time to (19) on existential is sues, relationships and our standards of living. Perhaps it’ s no coincidence that (20) is three times more likely to cause loss of healthy years in Europe and the US than in Africa.

Read the following text. Choose the best word(s) for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C or D on ANSWER SHEET 1. (10 points)1（）

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