Potential factors:
·Culture and lifestyle. Support from extended family and lower rates of smoking and drinking. Latino groups in particular have very strong family and social ties.
·Migration. The “healthy migrant effect” argues that healthy people are more likely to emigrate. And when immigrants become ill, they might return home and die there.
“Solving the puzzle may help the nation deal with health care issues because Hispanics use health services less—they make fewer doctors visits and spend less time in hospitals,” Hayes Bautista says. “It’s clearly something in the Latino culture,” he says.
1. In 2006, Hispanics’ life expectancy is years longer than the average of the total population.
A. 2. 5 B. 7. 7 C. 2. 9 D. 80. 6
2. What does the underlined word “outlive” in the second paragraph probably mean?
A. To live longer than. . .
B. To live shorter than. . .
C. To die out.
D. To expect to live.
3. What is the main idea of paragraph three?
A. Hispanics were born better than whites.
B. Morality is closely related with health care access.
C. Whites should have longer life expectancy.
D. Even experts can’t explain the phenomenon.
4. What is Mr. Hayes-Bautista’s opinion about the paradox?
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