【题目】空缺中可填入的最佳名词是______
[A] debt.
[B] price.
[C] fees.
[D] charges.
【试题】
①In the mid-19th century, people in the developed world entered into a Faustian bargain with the aging process. ②In exchange for life expectancies gaining an additional 30 years in the space of only a few generations, billions of people had to find out what it was like to be elderly. ③The ________ they have to pay is “the rise of heart disease, cancer, stroke*, Alzheimer’s*, osteoporosis*, osteoarthritis*, and everything we associate with aging and growing old,” according to Jay Olshansky, an epidemiologist. ④If the life in your years is supposed to matter more than the years in your life, it might feel like modern humanity has backed itself into a corner. ⑤Olshansky said it’s time to move away from the disease-specific model of modern medicine and toward an approach that addresses the process that’s at the base of it all: aging.
【参考译文】
①In the mid-19th century, people in the developed world entered into a Faustian bargain with the aging process. 19世纪中期，发达国家的人们对老龄化进程达成了一种浮士德式的协议。②In exchange for life expectancies gaining an additional 30 years in the space of only a few generations, billions of people had to find out what it was like to be elderly. 为了在短短几代人的时间里延长寿命30年，数十亿人必须去了解衰老的含义。③The ________ they have to pay is “the rise of heart disease, cancer, stroke*, Alzheimer’s*, osteoporosis*, osteoarthritis*, and everything we associate with aging and growing old,” according to Jay Olshansky, an epidemiologist. 根据流行病学家Jay Olshansky的说法，他们必须付出的代价是心脏病、癌症、中风、阿尔茨海默氏症、骨质疏松症、骨关节炎等疾病的增加以及所有与衰老和变老有关的疾病。④If the life in your years is supposed to matter more than the years in your life, it might feel like modern humanity has backed itself into a corner. 如果你多活几年的生活应该比你的年岁更重要，那就好像现代人类把自己逼到了墙角。⑤Olshansky said it’s time to move away from the disease-specific model of modern medicine and toward an approach that addresses the process that’s at the base of it all: aging. 奥尔尚斯基说，现在是时候摆脱现代医学针对特定疾病的模式，转向解决所有这些疾病的基础的过程的方法，即衰老过程。
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