Text for the items from 101 to 120.----.A long and healthy life?----.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 of10 -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 drink16 -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 American22 -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 out25 -soon is another interesting question.----.Internet: (adapted).----.Based on the text, judge the following items. A synonymous word for “thus”, in “It is thus widely believed” (lines 16 and 17), is therefore.

A synonymous word for “thus”, in “It is thus widely...

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A synonymous word for “thus”, in “It is thus widely believed” (lines 16 and 17), is therefore.

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