【正确答案】
B
【答案解析】[听力原文] Life spans in the world's wealthiest countries will continue to increase in the future, and women in South Korea may be the first to live longer than 90 years on average, a new study has found. The study—a mathematical model blending 21 other forecasts and published in The Lancet—gave South Korean women born in 2030 a 57 percent chance of hitting the over-90 longevity mark. The surest bet was that they would exceed age 86 on average. Compared with women from 34 other industrialized nations the study assessed, South Korean women generally smoke less, weigh less, have lower blood pressure and see doctors more often because most have health insurance. Women in France, Japan and Spain also were expected to live longer. Currently Japanese women live the longest, but their progress will probably stagnate, the study said. South Korea also led the list for longevity in men, followed by Australia, Switzerland, Canada and the Netherlands; men from all of those countries were expected to live beyond 80 on average. The United States, as usual, fared badly. American men and women are in 23rd and 27th place, respectively, in terms of life expectancy, and they were expected to fall farther as other countries, particularly in Eastern Europe, improve. Although the United States has advanced medicine, it has an obesity epidemic, little focus on preventive care, relatively high mortality among babies of uninsured mothers, and high male death rates from gunshot wounds and car accidents. Why do South Korean women see doctors more often? 题干问的是韩国女性为什么经常看医生。短文中明确提到，韩国女性更常看医生，是因为大部分人都有医疗保险。故答案为B(因为她们大多数都有医疗保险)。A项(因为大多数人关注自己的健康)和C项(因为韩国的医疗条件好)短文中未提及，故排除。D项(因为大多数人血压高)与短文内容不符，故排除。 预读四道题的各个选项，根据选项中的health，medical，blood pressure，obesity等词可推测，短文内容与健康、医疗有关，可能涉及医疗条件、医疗保险以及不同国家的相关情况等内容。