2012年职称英语-卫生类(A级)新增文章答案及对照译文.doc

阅读理解 第一篇Who Want to Live Forever? （谁想永生？） If your doctor could give you a drug that would let you live a healthy life for twice as long ，would you take it?如果你的医生能给你一种药，这个药能让你健康的活两倍长的时间，你会服用吗? 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. 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.好消息是我们离这一天越来越近了。科学家已经在实验中延长了苍蝇、蠕虫和老鼠的 寿命。许多人认为，采用基因疗法，我们很快就能将人类的寿命延长到至少140年。这看似一个好主意。想想我们将会延长多少时间来追逐我们的梦想、与爱人厮守、看 看我们的孩子成长并组成他们自己的家庭。 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. It would also raise productivity by adding to the year we can work.加州大学公共健康学院的格里戈里嘶托克博士认为：“长寿能使我们有机会改正错误，亦能促使人从长计划。同时，长寿还延长了人的工作时间，从而使生产力得到提高。” Longer lives dont just affect the people who live them. They also affect society as a whole. We have war，poverty，all sorts of issues around，and I dont 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 wont be a better society.长寿不仅会影响到寿命延长的这个人的生活，还会影响到整个社会。“战争、贫困，所 有这类问题都确实存在着，而我认为延长人的寿命并不能缓解这些问题，”美国的生命伦理 学家丹尼尔·卡拉汉如是说，“我们应该考虑的是‘长寿将给我们的社会带来什么?’我想那将不是一个更好的社会。” It would certainly be a very different society. People are already finding it more difficult to stay married. Divorce rates are rising. What would happen 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?当然，那将是一个非常不同的社会。如今的人们已经觉得保持一段婚姻比以往更加困难。离婚率在不断上升。如果一个社会里的人都能活到140岁，那时候的婚姻将是什么样的呢?如果一个家庭里同时生活着九或十代人，那样的家庭生活又将是