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If Hillary Clinton made her widely anticipated bid for the presidency, would

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问题     If Hillary Clinton made her widely anticipated bid for the presidency, would her age become a legitimate issue?
    Skeptics have already taken to the Internet to raise their concerns. If Clinton won election in 2016, at age 69, she would be just months younger than our oldest president, Ronald Reagan, when he was elected in 1980. Only one other candidate in 225 years (William Henry Harrison) moved into the White House past age 65, and his health proved so fragile that he contracted pneumonia (肺炎) on inauguration day in 1841 and died a month later. In fact, about half of the 43 men who have held the nation’s top office withered and died well before even reaching Hillary’s 2016 Election Day age.
    The last half-century of presidential history served to shield the American people from such brutal truths about presidential mortality. The assassination of John F. Kennedy in 1963, a defining event for Clinton and her fellow Baby Boomers, marked the last time a chief executive died in office. But before that bloody day in Dallas, during a sad span of 122 years, sitting presidents perished with revolting regularity.
    Harrison died four weeks into his term in 1841, and Zachary Taylor succumbed to mysterious digestive ailments nine years later. Assassins killed Abraham Lincoln in 1865, James Garfield in 1881 and William McKinley in 1901. Circulatory problems claimed Warren Harding in 1923, and a cerebral hemorrhage (脑出血)  dispatched Franklin Roosevelt in 1945. All these disasters struck presidents younger than Hillary would be on her first day in office. But a balanced response to concerns over Clinton’s age reveals recent, relevant changes in presidential life spans that should reassure the former first lady and her supporters.
    No president since Lyndon Johnson has died before age 81, and four of the six longest-lived presidents (Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush and Jimmy Carter) have held the office since 1974. This reflects the increase in life expectancy for all of us. In 1963, life expectancy stood at 69 years, but now we can anticipate survival to 79 — a gift of 10 extra years.
    Another factor working in Hillary’s favor: Women live longer than men by five years (sorry, Bill). This means that a typical woman born in 1947 (as was Hillary) can expect to live an average of 20 more years after today — enough to cover not only the two terms as president that her fans desire, but an additional ten years as U.N. secretary-general, chief justice of the Supreme Court or president of Yale.
    None of this means that a person of Clinton’s age won’t face significant health risks under the unimaginable pressures of presidential service. Like any other candidate, she must release records detailing every aspect of her personal medical history. When her husband, Bill, first ran for president at age 46, he could get away with providing only selective access to his medical records. Hillary, at age 69, should set a different standard. [br] What can be inferred from the last paragraph?
选项 A、Hillary Clinton will suffer from significant health problem under the tremendous stress.
B、If Hillary Clinton wants to win other candidates, she must hide her personal medical history.
C、No presidential candidate in American history had escaped from providing detailed medical records.
D、Hillary Clinton’s husband, Bill, may have run for president more than once.
答案 D
解析 末段倒数第二句提到，希拉里的丈夫比尔46岁第一次竞选总统时侥幸可以不完全公开其病例。这暗示着比尔可能不只一次参与过总统竞选，故正确答案为D)。末段首句指出，这些因素都不能保证作为总统的无法想象的压力不会使克林顿这个年纪的人面临严重的健康威胁，此处是说她会面临严重健康威胁，并不说她一定会有重大健康问题，故A)错误。末段第2句指出，和其他候选人一样，希拉里必须完全公开自己的病例，并没有提到为了打败其他候选人，希拉里必须隐瞒自己的病历，故B)错误。末段倒数第二句提到，希拉里的丈夫比尔46岁第一次竞选总统时侥幸可以不完全公开其病例，因此并不是美国历史上所有的总统候选人都提供了详细的病例，故C)错误。
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