Life expectancyin the U.S. rose in 2018, the first such increase in four yewww.58yuanyou.comars, according toa report the National Center for Health Statistics published on Thursday. (主句结构很简单：主谓；注意后面的补充内容；过去分词做后置定语，可以改成定语从句；词组：life expectancy; the first such increase in four years; according to)
The average American manwill live to be 76, and the average woman will live to be 81. (并列结构；注意average)
Those gains were driven bydeclines in 6 of the 10 leading causes of death between 2017 and 2018, and a notable drop indrug overdose deaths. (被动句；词组：be driven by; decline in; a notable drop in)
Overdose deaths, after increasing for decades, fell for the first timein 28原由网 years, from 70,237 in 2017 to 67,367 in 2018, accordinneCiZgHFGg to the report. (注意结构安排；词组：for decades; for the first time in 28 years; fall from … to …)
重点词汇：
1: expectancy /kspektnsi/ n 预料；预期；期待；盼望
-life expectancy 预期寿命
2: statistics /sttstks/ n 统计数据
3: decline /dklan/ n/v下降
4: notable /ntbl/ adj 显著的；重要的
5: overdose /vds/ n（一次用药）过量
-a drug/drugs overdose 药物剂量过大
6: decade /deked/ n 十年，十年期（尤指一个年代）
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Life expectaneCiZgHFGncy in the U.S. rose in 2018, the first such increase in four years, according to a report the National Center for Health Statistics published on Thursday.
The average American man will live to be 76, and the average woman will live to be 81.
Those gains were driven by declines in 6 of the 10 leading causes of death bewww.58yuanyou.comtween 2017 and 2018, and a notable drop in drug overdose deaths.
Overdose deaths, after increasing for decades, fell for the first time in 28 years, from 70,237 in 2017 to 67,367 in 2018, according to the report.
