职称英语考试

【单选题】Old Mothers’Children Have HigherDiabetes (糖尿病) Risk Children of older mothers run a higher risk of developing insulin-dependent (胰岛素依赖型的) diabetes, theBritish Medical Journal sai
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A、strong association was found between increasing maternal (母亲的) age at delivery and risk of (insulin-dependent) diabetes in the chil
D、Risk was highest in firstborn children and decreased progressively with higher birth order," ProfessorEdwin Gale and colleagues at Southmead Hospital inBristol sai
D、Diabetes is a serious, incurable, lifelong disease characterized (以......作为特性) by all inability to control the amount of sugar in the bloo
D、Insulin-dependent diabetes, which mainly affects children, is treated by administering the hormone insulin. Gale looked into 1,375 families in the Oxford area where one or more children had diabetes and found that the risk of a child developing insulin-dependent diabetes increased by 25 percent for each five-year band of the mothers age.The risk of developing diabetes was also linked to the age of the father. For every five-year band of the father’’s age the risk of the child developing diabetes increased by nine percent. The risk of diabetes was high est among the firstborn children of mothers who started their families late and the risk decreased by about 15 percent for each subsequent child, theBMJ sai
D、The older the mother, the earlier the start of insulin-dependent diabetes in the chil
D、Other studies have already shown that children born to older mothers, over the age of 35, have an increased risk of diabetes but this study is the first to establish that risk increases continuously in relation to increasing maternal age,Dr. PollyBingley of Southmead Hospital told Reuters (路透社). The new study is the first to show that risk is related to birth order.The study also partly explains increasing diabetes.Between 1970 and 1996 the proportion of children born to mothers aged between 30 and 34 increased to 28 percent from 15 percent and this could account for rising numbers of childhood diabetes patients, the scientists said in the alarming increase in the rate of (insulin-dependent) diabetes among children in recent years. "This study may well provide a clue to the understanding of this problem. It is most likely that there are a number of factors to explain the increase,"Diabetes UK sai
D、There are some 1.4 million diagnosed diabetes sufferers inBritain, the charityDiabetes UK sai
D、Of these 1.4 million sufferers there are 20,000 people under age 20 who suffer from insulin-dependent diabetes. How many diagnosed diabetes patients are there inBritain
A、About twenty thousan
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B．About one million and four thousan
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C．About one million and four hundred thousan
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D、About one million and four hundre
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网考网参考答案：C
网考网解析：
短文最后两句说到，“在英国，已诊断的糖尿病患者大约(注意这里some=about)有140万人，其中20岁以下的胰岛素依赖型糖尿病患者有2万人”。本题问的是全英国患糖尿病的人数，故C)项才是正确答案。 document.getElementById("warp").style.display="none"; document.getElementById("content").style.display="block"; 查看试题解析出处>>