【题目要求】
In general, people are living longer now. Discuss the causes of this phenomenon. Use specific reasons and details to develop your essay.
【题目分析】
现象描述:20世纪初全球平均年龄(life expectancy)大约45岁。到20世纪末,这个数字已经增长到70岁左右。人们越来越长寿的原因:越来越好的饮食条件,饮食卫生,越来越科学的饮食模式;越来越发达的医疗技术、越来越完善的医疗保健系统;经济稳定、社会稳定。极端的例子:前苏联(the previous Soviet Union)解体(disintegration/breakup)后,俄罗斯的平均年龄大幅度下降。
作者词汇基础很好,也能较灵活使用学术词汇,望继续努力;能够很好的使用长难句且句法很棒;全文结构较为严谨。
According to a recent report by the Chinese government, the average lifetime of its citizens in the first ten years of the 21st century is almost 3 years longer than that of the last decade in 20th century, while that increase is 2.6 years for males and 3.4 years for females. This is a result from the study to statistical yearbook of each year. In other words, the Chinese are enjoying longevity today. Many causes will result in an increasing amount of long-life people and a longer life time of them. Amongst those explanations, a healthier lifestyle is in the first place. In the life of those long-life people, they usually pay more attention to their health. Quite a lot of tips are revealed through both the TV and the Internet, and then people can acquire more knowledge about how to live an active, vigorous life. As knowing about that, they can follow the instructions, for example, more smooth walk every week might lead to a strong body, or having more abundant of fruit will keep the balance of nutrition in people’s body. While people are getting more careful about their own health, a predictably healthy body is reasonable. In addition, another implied, but obvious factor is needed behind the above cause that today we have more plenty of resources. We can have enough food and fruit, while that might be an unbelievable issue in the old days. In a period not too far away, about several decades ago, our predecessors were still starving for the lack of food. They were struggling to survive in the hardest time. But as time goes by, we now can save worry about food and other resources to survive, which make us far away from the danger of hunger, leading us to a better life and we need no longer trade our health with small particles of food. So now we can just enjoy our life, and undoubtedly a healthier body will be long lasting, both in physiology and in psychology. The most important factor may be that people are enjoying the convenience of the development of medicine and treatment. We all know people are inevitable to have diseases, especially when they are getting old. Some terrible illnesses usually knock the old down, such as heart disease and high blood pressure. In the ancient time, there was not any method efficient enough to cure these diseases, and the patients suffering the pain would have to die at a very young age in today’s view. However luckily, our medicine and treatment have already attained a lot of achievement which brings about the light of dealing with the terrible diseases. The development in medicine and treatment, a gospel of the patients, prolong the life time of those on the edge of death. For my grandparents, they have just passed their 90th years in the early 2014. They are quite healthy, and full of energy. They both keep an ordinary and regular style of life, and they are quite careful about their bodies. I think that they are excellent examples of longevity, while my whole family wish the old to have a life as long as possible.