Cancer is the world’s top "economic killer" as well as its likely leading cause of death. Cancer costs more in (47) and lost life than , malaria, the flu and other diseases that spread person-to-person. Chronic diseases including cancer, heart disease and diabetes (48) for more than 60 percent of deaths worldwide but less than 3 percent of public and private (49) 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 (50) person-to-person, but the amount (51) 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 (52) 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 (53) it to the global initiative that led to big increases in spending on nearly a decade ago. "This needs to be discussed at the UN--how we are going to deal with this rising burden of (54) 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 (55) disability-adjusted life years, which reflect the impact a disease has on how long and how (56) people live.
A. productively I. productivity
B. supplying J. chronic
C. shifting K. comparing
D. spread L. domestic
E. account M. doubtful
F. funding N. clumsily
G. calculated 0. disability
H. devoted
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Cancer is the world’s top "economic killer" as well as its likely leading cause of death. Cancer costs more in (47) and lost life than , malaria, the flu and other diseases that spread person-to-person. Chronic diseases including cancer, heart disease and diabetes (48) for more than 60 percent of deaths worldwide but less than 3 percent of public and private (49) 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 (50) person-to-person, but the amount (51) 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 (52) 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 (53) it to the global initiative that led to big increases in spending on nearly a decade ago. "This needs to be discussed at the UN--how we are going to deal with this rising burden of (54) 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 (55) disability-adjusted life years, which reflect the impact a disease has on how long and how (56) people live.
A. productively I. productivity
B. supplying J. chronic
C. shifting K. comparing
D. spread L. domestic
E. account M. doubtful
F. funding N. clumsily
G. calculated 0. disability
H. devoted
