单选题
Cancer is the world's top 'economic killer' as well as its likely leading cause of death. Cancer costs more in 26 and lost life than AIDS, malaria, the flu and other diseases that spread person-to-person. Chronic diseases including cancer, heart disease and diabetes 27 for more than 60 percent of deaths worldwide but less than 3 percent of public and private 28 for global health, said Rachel Nugent of the Center for Global Development, a Washington-based policy research group. Money shouldn't be taken away from fighting diseases that 29 person-to-person, but the amount 30 to cancer is way out of whack (重击) with the impact it has, said Otis Brawley, the cancer society's chief medical officer. Cancer's economic toll (损耗) was $895 billion in 2008—equivalent to 1.5 percent of the world's gross 31 product, the report says. That's in terms of disability and years of life lost—not the cost of treating the disease, which wasn't addressed in the report. Many groups have been pushing for more attention to non-infectious causes of death, and the United Nations General Assembly has set a meeting on this a year from now. Some policy experts are 32 it to the global initiative that led to big increases in spending on AIDS nearly a decade ago. 'This needs to he discussed at the UN—how we are going to deal with this rising burden of 33 disease', said Dr. Andreas Ullrich, medical officer for cancer control at WHO. Researchers used the World Health Organization's death and disability reports, and economic data from the World Bank. They 34 disability-adjusted life years, which reflect the impact a disease has on how long and how 35 people live. A. productively B. supplying C. shifting D. spread E. account F. funding G. calculated H. devoted I. productivity J. chronic K. comparing L. domestic M. doubtful N. clumsily O. disability
问答题
【正确答案】I
【答案解析】语法判断：空格前是介词in，空格后and连接的并列结构是名词词组lost life，故应填入名词。语义判断：备选的名词有三个，funding(经费)、productivity(生产力)和disability(残疾)。and后的lost life对应前一句中as well as后的leading cause of death，因此and前空格处应对应前一句中as well as前的economic killer。而三个词中只有productivity与经济有关。因此填productivity。