most people should reach 80 or 90. (!. 31) The function of should in the fragment above is to: (A) give advice (B) clear doubt (©) express possibility (D) impose obligation
The first paragraph introduces the subject of the text by calling it unalloyed good news (£. 2). This expression refers to the following fact: (A) people are living longer (B) science is changing quickly (C) pollution is increasing slowly (D) medicine is developing faster
most men are surviving until the age of 85, while women are living four years longer. (£. 6-7) According to the sentence above, women will probably reach the age of. (a) 80 (6) 81 (285 (0) 89
Words and expressions such as older (title), live longer (£. 4), longevity (£. 8), older person (4. 34) and the elderly (£. 36) belong to the same semantic field. The elderly is translated as: (A) antigos (B) idosos (C) obsoletos (D) longínquos
From the third to the fifth paragraph, the author presents the advances that led to an increase in human longevity. In the fourth paragraph, the pair of factors affected by those advances is: (A) diet and stress (B) society and lifespan (C) sanitation and infancy (D) lifestyle and environment