# Questão ce58fb4b-29 — Inglês

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- **Código:** ce58fb4b-29
- **Disciplina:** [Inglês](https://dicasdoenem.com.br/disciplina/16-ingles)
- **Área:** [Linguagens](https://dicasdoenem.com.br/area/linguagens)
- **Ano:** [2016](https://dicasdoenem.com.br/ano/2016)
- **Instituição:** Universidade Estadual Paulista
- **Assuntos:** Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension
- **Nível:** Médio
- **Gabarito:** alternativa C

## Enunciado

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Disparity in life spans of the rich and the poor is growing

Sabrina Tavernise

February 12, 2016

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Experts have long known that rich people generally
live longer than poor people. But a growing body of data
shows a more disturbing pattern: Despite big advances
in medicine, technology and education, the longevity gap
between high-income and low-income Americans has been
widening sharply.

The poor are losing ground not only in income, but also
in years of life, the most basic measure of well-being. In the
early 1970s, a 60-year-old man in the top half of the earnings
ladder could expect to live 1.2 years longer than a man of
the same age in the bottom half, according to an analysis
by the Social Security Administration. Fast-forward to 2001,
and he could expect to live 5.8 years longer than his poorer
counterpart.

New research released this month contains even more
jarring numbers. Looking at the extreme ends of the income
spectrum, economists at the Brookings Institution found that
for men born in 1920, there was a six-year difference in life
expectancy between the top 10 percent of earners and the
bottom 10 percent. For men born in 1950, that difference had
more than doubled, to 14 years. For women, the gap grew to
13 years, from 4.7 years. “There has been this huge spreading
out,” said Gary Burtless, one of the authors of the study.

The growing chasm is alarming policy makers, and has
surfaced in the presidential campaign. During a Democratic
debate, Senator Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton expressed
concern over shortening life spans for some Americans. “This
may be the next frontier of the inequality discussion,” said
Peter Orszag, a former Obama administration official now at
Citigroup, who was among the first to highlight the pattern.
The causes are still being investigated, but public health
researchers say that deep declines in smoking among the
affluent and educated may partly explain the difference.

Overall, according to the Brookings study, life expectancy
for the bottom 10 percent of wage earners improved by just
3 percent for men born in 1950 compared with those born
in 1920. For the top 10 percent, though, it jumped by about
28 percent. (The researchers used a common measure – life
expectancy at age 50 – and included data from 1984 to 2012.)

(www.nytimes.com. Adaptado.)

According to the first paragraph,

## Alternativas

- **A)** the disturbing fact is that medical advances seem to be
 useless for the people in general.
- **B)** the longevity difference has been widening due to
 advances in technology, education and mainly in medicine.
- **C)** developments in medicine, technology and education
 failed to bridge the longevity gap between rich and poor. ✔ **correta**
- **D)** wealthy people not necessarily live longer, as reported by
 new research data.
- **E)** medicine based on technological advances is usually
 applied to poor people first.

## Resposta correta

Alternativa **C**.

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