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PAGE PAGE 12 2012年职称英语卫生类 新增文章篇目 第十九篇 Prolonging Human Life 　　Prolonging human life has increased the size of the human population. Many people alive today would have died of childhood diseases if they had been born 100 years ago. Because more people live longer, there are more people around at any given time. In fact, it is a decrease in death rates, not an increase in birthrates, that has led to the population explosion. 　　Prolonging human life has also increased the dependency load. In all societies, people who are disabled or too young or too old to work are dependent on the res