Q19:

In Rubaria, excellent health care is available to virtually the entire population, whereas very few people in Terland receive adequate medical care.  Yet, although the death rate for most diseases is higher in Terland than in Rubaria, the percentage of the male population that dies from prostate cancer is significantly higher in Rubaria than in Terland.

Which of the following, if true, most helps to explain the disparity between the prostate cancer death rate in Rubaria and Terland?

A.     Effective treatment of prostate cancer in its early stages generally requires medical techniques available in Rubaria but not in Terland.

B.     Most men who have prostate cancer are older than the average life expectancy for male inhabitants of Terland.

C.     Being in poor general health does not increase one’s risk of developing prostate cancer.

4. It is possible to decrease one’s risk of getting prostate cancer by eating certain kinds of foods, and such foods are more readily available in Rubaria than in Terland.

5. Among men in Rubaria, the death rate from prostate cancer is significantly higher for those who do not take full advantage of Rubaria’s health care system than for those who do.

我选C 答案是B

之前有讨论过了 但是沒有个结果

盼望指教

答案是B，我也支持B。

意思大概是这样的，T的男的大约可以活到50岁就去世了，而R的男一般可以活到60岁以后，也就是说,T的男的去到50就会因为其它疾病死了，而不是死于P CANCER；而R的男的到60以后都没死于其它疾病，其它疾病都要不了他们的命，反而P CANCER成为了杀手。

 c. Being in poor general health does not increase one’s risk of

developing prostate cancer.

not increase does not mean decrease

我觉得这几个选项都有问题，

选项里至少应该出现两个国家之间的比较才能得出比较的结果。

像B， 即便想各位解释的那样，早早死翘翘， 那如果s国也是这样的情况呢，而且

推理加入了外界的因素，

不过最优只能选B看来，

问题是题目更本没有讨论年龄问题啊，一般来说没有讨论的因素不应该涉及的……

C反而比较和题目相关，虽然好像也没说明白什么。