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Passage Three

Questions 31 to 35 are based on the following passage.

That question “why women live longer than men” can be answered at two levels. An evolutionary biologist would tell you that it is because women get evolutionary bonus points from living long enough to help bring up the grandchildren. Men, by contrast, wear themselves out competing for the right to procreate in the first place. That is probably true, but not much help to the medical profession. However, a group of researchers at John Moores University has just come up with a medically useful answer. It is that while 70-year-old men have the hearts of 70-year-olds, those of their female peers resemble the hearts of 20-year-olds.

David Goldspink and his colleagues looked at 250 volunteers aged between 18 and 80 over  two years. All the volunteers were healthy but physically inactive. The team’s principal finding was that the power of the male heart falls by 20-25% between the ages of 18 and 70, while that of the female heart remains undiminished.

They found that between the ages of 20 and 70, men lose 1/3 of the contractile muscle cells in the walls of their hearts. Over the same period, women lose hardly any. There is a strong link between the number of these cells and the function of the heart. What remains a mystery is why men lose these cells and women do not.

A previous theory of why women outlive men suggested that the female sex hormone, oestrogen, could have a protective effect on the heart. But Dr. Goldspink dismisses this idea, saying that there is no discernible dropoff in female heart function after menopause（更年期）, when oestrogen（雌激素）levels decrease dramatically. However, oestrogen does have a beneficial effect on blood vessels. The study found that blood flow to the muscles and skin of the limbs decreases with age in both sexes. The changes in the structure of the blood vessels occur earlier in men, but women catch up soon after menopause.

It’s not all bad news for men, though. In a related study, the team found that the hearts of veteran male athletes were as powerful as those of inactive 20yearold male undergraduates. But can men really recover lost heart function after a lifetime of inactivity and poor diet? Is it ever too late to start exercising? “I think the answer is no,” says Dr. Goldspink. “The health benefits to be gained from sensible exercise are to be recommended, regardless of age.” So if you are male and getting on, get on with it

31. A medical explanation as to the question why women live longer than men is that          .

A) women have to live long enough to look after grandchildren

B) women’s hearts hardly grow old

C) women have more endurance than men

D) women are superior at evolutionary scale

32. The power of the female heart remains undiminished between the ages of 18 and 70 probably because          .

A) women almost lose no contractile muscle cells in the walls of their hearts

B) women’s oestrogen has a protective effect on their heart

C) the size of their heart chambers is different from men’s

D) the thickness of the female heart’s muscular wall is different from men’s

33. Dr. Goldspink disagrees with the proposal that oestrogen could protect heart because          .

A) female sex hormone can increase blood flow

B) female sex hormone can be beneficial to blood vessels

C) female heart function hardly drops when oestrogen levels fall greatly

D) female heart function improves though not obviously

34. What Dr. Goldspink says to men is that          .

A) men can’t recover lost heart function in any way

B) men can recover lost heart function at any age

C) proper exercise does good to the heart at any age

D) it’s too late to start exercise when men are getting old

35. The best title of the passage is          .

A) Exercise and the Health of Heart

B) The Difference between Men and Women

C) Heart and Health

D) Why Do Women Live Longer than Men

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