衛生類輔導資料:閱讀判斷Step Back in Time
Do you know that we live a lot longer now than the people who were born before us? One hundred years ago the average woman 1ived to be 45.But now，she Can live until at least 80.
One of the main reasons for people living longer is that we know how to look after ourselves better.We know which foods are good for US and what we have to eat to make sure our bodies get all the healthy things they need.We know why we sometimes get ill and what to do to get better again.And we know how important it is to do lots of exercise to keep our hearts beating healthily.
But in order that we don’t slip back into bad habits，let’s have a look at what life was like 100 years ago.
Families had between 15 and 20 children，athough many babies didn’t live long.Children suffered from lots of diseases，especially rickets(佝僂病)and scurvy(壞血病)，which are both caused by bad diets.This is because many families were very poor and not able to feed their children well.
Really poor families who lived in crowded cities like London and Manchester often slept standing up， bending over a piece of string，because there was no room for them to lie down.
People didn’t have fridges until the 1920s.They kept fresh food cold by storing it on windowsills(窗臺板)，blocks of ice，or even burying it in the garden.
Some children had to start work at the age of seven or eight lo earn money for their parents.If you had lived 100 years ago，you might well be selling matchsticks(火柴桿)(a job done by many children)or working with your dad by now.
16 On average women lived longer than men 1 00 years ago.
A Right B Wrong C Not mentioned
17 People now enjoy longer lives for unknown reasons.
A Right B Wrong C Not mentioned
18 A hundred years ago many kids died at all early age.
A Right B Wrong C Not mentioned
19 Poor diets can lead to such diseases as rickets and scurvy.
A Right B Wrong C Not mentioned
20 People in the past preferred standing up to lying down when sleeping
A Right B Wrong C Not mentioned
21 An Englishman invented the fridge in the 1920s.
A Right B Wrong C Not mentioned
22 Life was not easy for many children living 1 00 years ago.
A Right B Wrong C Not mentioned
答案：
16 C 文章第一段雖然提到女性的壽命現在要比一百年前長得多，但并沒有提及一百年前女性是否比男性壽命要長一事。
17 B 文章第二段明確介紹了人們現在比過去長壽的原因。
18 A 文章第四段頭一句便說一百年前，許多孩子很小便夭折了。
19 A 文章第四段提到，佝僂病與壞血病都是飲食不良引發的。
20 B 文章第五段提到，人們過去之所以站著睡覺是因為房子太小，而非出于喜歡。
21 C 文章第六段只是說，直到20世紀20年代人們才有了冰箱可用，但并沒有說明冰箱是誰發明的：
22 A 從文章第四以及最后一段不難看出，一百年前，生活對許多孩子來說都是十分不易的。