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You're going to read about the life expectancy in the U.S. Please, pay attention to details and then, answer the questions:
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U.S. Life Expectancy Rises to Record Level
Correcta Published February 28, 2005 Associated Press
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Declines in death rates from most major causes — including heart disease and cancer — have pushed Americans' life expectancy to a record 77.6 years.
Women are still living longer than men, but the gap is narrowing.
Women now have a life expectancy of 80.1 years, 5.3 more than men. That's down from 5.4 years in 2002 and continues a steady decline from a peak difference
of 7.8 years in 1979, the National Center for Health Statistics said Monday in its annual mortality report.
Research indicates there also is an increase in active life expectancy, said Mary A. Salmon, a sociology professor at the University of North Carolina: "It's not that
we're having a lot of very old, sick people," she said in a telephone interview. She added, "There has been lots of speculation on how this will affect Social
Security, of course."
Indeed, a major debate topic in Washington and elsewhere is President Bush's plan to change Social Security, which he says is facing a financial crisis caused by
increasing life expectancy, lower birth rates and aging baby boomers. The total number of deaths in the United States in 2003 was 2,443,908, an increase of 521
reflecting a growing overall population.
Most age groups saw a decline in mortality rates. Infant mortality , which increased to 7 per 100,000 in 2002 — the first such rise in decades — was 6.9 in 2003,
a change the agency said was not statistically significant. While the overall life expectancy increase to 77.6 was good news, Americans still trail many other
countries, according to statistics from the World Health Organization.
In 2002 figures, Japan had the longest life expectancy at 81.9 years, followed by Monaco, 81.2, San Marino and Switzerland, 80.6, Australia, 80.4, Andorra, 80.3,
and Iceland, 80.1. Other countries topping the United States include Austria, Belgium, Canada, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Israel, Italy, Luxembourg,
Malta, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Singapore, Spain and the United Kingdom.
The death rate from heart disease decreased from 240.8 per 100,000 in 2002 to 232.1 in 2003. The cancer death rate declined from 193.5 to 189.3 per 100,000.
Among other major killers, the death rate for stroke dropped 4.6 percent, the death rate from chronic respiratory diseases 0.7 percent, flu and pneumonia 3.1
percent, accidents 2.2 percent and suicides 3.7 percent. On the other hand, the death rate for Alzheimer's disease was up 5.9 percent, for hypertension 5.7
percent, Parkinson's 3.4 percent and kidney disease 2.1 percent.
The increase in Parkinson's deaths moved it into the top 15 causes of death in the United States, one of the few surprises in the report, according to Robert N.
Anderson, chief of the mortality statistics branch at the center. Parkinson's replaced murder among the top causes of death.
Among whites the death rates per 100,000 people declined 2.1 percent for men and 1.2 percent for women; among blacks the rates were down 2.5 percent for
men and 2.4 percent for women; Hispanic males had a 4.2 percent drop compared with 1.8 percent for Hispanic women.

Now, complete the sentences with the correct option:

1. Life expectancy of japanese was much higher that the rest of the world in 2002.

2. Parkinson has replaced murder in the top causes of deadth.

3. The increase in the life expectancy may affect the Social Security .

4. Heart desease death rate has decreased .

5. The gap in life expectancy of men and women is narrowing

Decide if the statements are true, flase or not mentioned.

1. Men live longer than women. False

2. The report was made by the University of North Carolina. False

3. When life expectancy increases, the Social Security System faces a financial crisis. True

4. Hispanics live longer that U.S. people. Not mentioned

5. Hypertension is one of the top killers in the U.S. True