CRM PR 2018 — Questão 102 · Gramática - Língua Inglesa

Text for the items from 101 to 120.

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A long and healthy life?

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1____-------A baby born today could live to be 100, and even 120.

----.This is hard to believe, but a gene could account for both long

----.and healthy life.

4____-------There already is a surprisingly great number of people

----.who have passed the landmark age of 100, which seemed an

----.exceptional achievement for our grandparents´ generation.

7 --Besides being at least 80, the wellderly, as these old people

----.are referred to, are unexpectedly immune to chronic

----.diseases. There have been countless scientific studies of

10 -communities where a healthy old age is typical. These include

----.Calabria in southern Italy and the island of Okinawa in Japan

----.among others.

13____-------In the village of Molochio in Calabria, there are about

----.2,000 inhabitants. At least eight members of this small

----.community are centenarians who neither smoke nor drink

16 -and usually eat plenty of fruit and vegetables. It is thus widely

----.believed that the secret of their long life relies on their

----.lifestyle as well as their eating habits.

19____-------However, such evidence is increasingly being regarded

----.as unreliable and scientists are now looking beyond diet and

----.lifestyle to genetic factors. For Eric Topol, an American

22 -geneticist, “There must be genes that explain why some

----.individuals are protected from the harmful genes that affect

----.the aging process”. Whether this is going to be found out

25 -soon is another interesting question.

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_{Internet: <www.ngllife.com> (adapted).}

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Based on the text, judge the following items.

The modal auxiliary would can be used instead of “could” in “A baby born today could live” (line 1) without affecting the meaning of the sentence.