单选题 Questions 27 and 28 are based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you will be given 10 seconds to answer the questions.
Now listen to the news.


单选题 Developed countries take ______ of the world's health expense.
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】[听力原文]27-28
Inequality of health care is still paramount, says the WHO's latest report. Indttstrialized countries account for less than 20 percent of the world' s population but take 90 percent of health spending. In Japan more than five hundred dollars is spent on drugs per person per year. This compares to just three dollars in Sierra Leone. Only slightly more is spent in many sub-Saharan countries. Over the last fifty years, life expectancy has in- creased globally from forty six years to sixty five. But today, instead of the gap being between the developed and developing countries, it's now biggest between the very poorest nations and all other countries. The bur- den of infectious diseases, including HIV, as well as chronic conditions, coupled with a lack of health care, has led to this situation. However, it's children who are most affected. Almost fifty seven million people died in 2002, nearly twenty percent children of less than 5 years of age, and ninety eight percent of these deaths occurred in developing countries.

本题是数字细节题,根据文中“Industrialized countries account for less than 20 percent of the world's population but take 90 percent of health spending.”可得知正确答案是B。
单选题 Over the last five decades, life expectancy has increased globally by______ years.
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】本题是数字推断题,根据文中“Over the last fifty years,life expectancy has increased globally from forty six years to sixty five.”可得65-46=19,即增加了19年,选A。life expectancy平均寿命