研究生英语视听说英语听力(课后第四题)(5)

研究生英语视听说听力原文

serpentine stretch of Lombard Street that everyone calls the ―Crookedest Street in

America.‖

In the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood, you can still run into people who are

trying to recapture the ―hippie‖ experience of San Francisco‘s 1967 ―Summer of

Love.‖ And in San Francisco Bay, Alcatraz Prison, which once housed the worst of

the worst federal prisoners, is open for tours.

These unique allurements explain why the American short-story writer O. Henry

wrote, ―East is East, and West is San Francisco.‖

Unit 9 — Health

4. Link between Heart Health and Education

B Directions: Listen the passage again and decide whether the following statements

are true or false.

1) Less educated people tend to have more heart attacks and other so-called

cardiovascular events. ( T )

2) The correlation between more education and fewer heart attacks, strokes, and other

cardiovascular events was strongest among women in richer countries.

( F )

3) Educated people in lower- and middle-income countries tend to avoid risky

behaviors like smoking, or they eat better, or get better medical care. ( F )

4) Women in Latin America are increasingly targeted by tobacco companies. (T )

5) More educated women in lower- and middle-class countries are more likely to get

better positions with health care insurances. (F )

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Numerous studies have found a connection between education and the risk of

heart disease and stroke. More educated people tend to have fewer heart attacks and

other so-called cardiovascular events. But new research finds that the correlation

doesn't apply everywhere.

Previous studies have been done almost entirely in richer, industrialized

countries. Abhinav Goyal of Emory University in Atlanta wanted to see if that link

between heart disease and education applied in low- and middle-income countries.

"So what we found is that there is a relationship between education level and

cardiovascular events that differs both in terms of gender and in terms of world

region," says Goyal.

The correlation between more education and fewer heart attacks, strokes, and

other cardiovascular events was strongest among men in richer countries. The link