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The skin cancer is one of the most common cancers in the UK, / and kills more than 2,000 people there each year. / Figures from the Cancer Research Center show / just how sharply cases have risen in the past 40 years. / Back in the mid-70s, just 600 people / were diagnosed with the disease each year, / compared to almost 6,000 a year in 2010. / The rates for older men were ten times more likely / to be diagnosed with skin cancer than their parents, / and women were five times more likely.
[解析] 本文主题:皮肤癌的快速增长。本文阐述了皮肤癌的发展趋势,因此文章在时态上有现在时、完成时和过去时三种,听写时要注意区分。由于这是一篇科普性报告,文章中出现了较多数字,听写时需要注意,大数字如2,000、6,000等只需写数字,无须拼出。文中需要注意的较易拼错的单词有“cancer,figure,risen,diagnosed和compared”,需要大写的单词有“UK和Cancer Research Center”。