Marks Square)
A B C D
23. Why is the Florian the famous cafe? Because ______.
A. it appeared in Byron and Goethe’s poems
B.Byron and Goethe were once its customers
C. it was founded in 1720, much older than the Quadri
D. it is more close to St. Mark’s Square than the Quadri
24. From the article we can see that ______.
A. many people have fled because Venice’s existence is being threatened
B. the level of the surrounding water is constantly rising because the city of
Venice began to sink
C. many steps have already been taken to prevent the terrain from rising
D. the government has already taken many measures to save the city from going down
B
Why do men die earlier than women? The latest research makes it known that the reason could be that men’s hearts go into rapid decline when they reach middle age. The largest study of the effects of ageing on the heart has found that women’s longevity(长寿) may be linked to the fact that their hearts do not lose their pumping power with age.
“We have found that the power of the male heart falls by 20-25 percent between 18 and 70 years of age,” said the head of the study, David Goldspink of Liverpool John Moores University in the UK.
“Within the heart there are millions of cells that enable it to beat. Between the age of 20 and 70, one-third of those cells die and are not replaced in men,” said Goldspink. “This is part of the ageing process.” What surprises scientists is that the female heart sees very little loss of these cells. A healthy 70-year-old woman’s heart could perform almost as well as a 20-year-old one’s.
“This gender difference might just explain why women live longer than men,”said Goldspink.