2.Which of the following (下列哪個選項)is implied （被暗示）in the sixth paragraph（段）?
A)Marriages（婚姻） in the US today are quite unstable（不穩(wěn)定的）．
B)More and more （越來越多的）people in the US today want to（想要） get married（結婚）.
C)Living longer would make it easier（更容易） for people to maintain（保持， 維修， 主張） their marital（婚姻） ties（聯(lián)系，領帶）．
D)If people live longer, they would stay停留 in在 marriage longer.
2．A． 首先關注段落第6段。 備選項中都出現(xiàn)與婚姻相關的詞語， 因此首先關注該段中涉及到婚姻的句子。
If your doctor could give you a drug that would let you have a healthy life for twice as long， would you take it?
The good news is that we may be drawing near to that date．Scientists have already extended the lives of flies，worms and mice in laboratories．Many now think that using genetic treatments we will soon be able to extend human life to at least 140 years.
This seems a great idea．（第1題答案相關句 ）Think of how much more time we could spend chasing our dreams， spending time with our loved ones，watching our families grow and have families of their own．
“Longer life would give us a chance to recover from our mistakes and promote long term thinking，”says Dr Gregory Stock of the University of California School of Public Health. （第1題答案相關句 ） “It would also raise productivity by adding to the year we can work．”
Longer lives don’t just affect the people who live them．They also affect society as a whole．“We have war poverty, all sons of issues around，and I don’t think any of them would be at all helped by having people live longer,” says US bioethicist Daniel Callahan．“The question is ‘What will we get as a society?’ I suspect it won’t be a better society．”
（第6段） It would certainly be a very different society．People are already finding it more difficult（困難的） to stay（繼續(xù)） married（已婚的）．Divorce （與婚姻相關的詞匯）rates （離婚率）are rising（上升）．What would to marriage in a society where people lived for 140 years? And what would happen to family life if nine or 10 generations of the same family were all alive at the same time?
答案相關句說“人們發(fā)現(xiàn)很難保持一段婚姻。離婚率正在上升?！痹摼浒凳久绹四壳暗幕橐鲫P系已經十分脆弱。
A)Marriages（婚姻） in the US today are quite unstable（不穩(wěn)定的）．
B)More and more （越來越多的）people in the US today want to（想要） get married（結婚）.
C)Living longer would make it easier（更容易） for people to maintain（保持， 維修， 主張） their marital（婚姻） ties（聯(lián)系，領帶）．
D)If people live longer, they would stay停留 in在 marriage longer.
2．A． 首先關注段落第6段。 備選項中都出現(xiàn)與婚姻相關的詞語， 因此首先關注該段中涉及到婚姻的句子。
If your doctor could give you a drug that would let you have a healthy life for twice as long， would you take it?
The good news is that we may be drawing near to that date．Scientists have already extended the lives of flies，worms and mice in laboratories．Many now think that using genetic treatments we will soon be able to extend human life to at least 140 years.
This seems a great idea．（第1題答案相關句 ）Think of how much more time we could spend chasing our dreams， spending time with our loved ones，watching our families grow and have families of their own．
“Longer life would give us a chance to recover from our mistakes and promote long term thinking，”says Dr Gregory Stock of the University of California School of Public Health. （第1題答案相關句 ） “It would also raise productivity by adding to the year we can work．”
Longer lives don’t just affect the people who live them．They also affect society as a whole．“We have war poverty, all sons of issues around，and I don’t think any of them would be at all helped by having people live longer,” says US bioethicist Daniel Callahan．“The question is ‘What will we get as a society?’ I suspect it won’t be a better society．”
（第6段） It would certainly be a very different society．People are already finding it more difficult（困難的） to stay（繼續(xù)） married（已婚的）．Divorce （與婚姻相關的詞匯）rates （離婚率）are rising（上升）．What would to marriage in a society where people lived for 140 years? And what would happen to family life if nine or 10 generations of the same family were all alive at the same time?
答案相關句說“人們發(fā)現(xiàn)很難保持一段婚姻。離婚率正在上升?！痹摼浒凳久绹四壳暗幕橐鲫P系已經十分脆弱。