Practise 7 Punctuation

Aging     

    People are more likely to long enough to get old in wealthy countries than in poor countries. In rich countries, people have nutritions food modern, medical care, good sanitation and clean drinking water; but poor countries  lack of these things. As a result, the mortalityrate, especially infant mortality, is very high. Citizens of Ethiopia and Yemen, which are two of the world's poorest countries, have an average life expectancy of 35-39 years. Citizens of Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Australia, Iceland and Sweden; in contast have an average life span of more than 80 years. Japan has the highest Yemen has the lowest. One expection is Saudi Arabia, one of the world's wealthiest nations. Having an average life, expectancy of 45-49 years, Saudi Arabians live about as long as Bangladeshis and Cambodians. Surpringly, the United States is not among the highest rated nations having an average life, expectancy of only 77 years. 

    

     Compared to other mammals humans have a relatively long life span.

    The average life span of elephants is 70 years , of dogd 18 years, of cats 14 years and of horses 20 years. The life spans of other species are as follows eagles, parrots and owls 60 years, parakeets 12 years, gruppies 5 years and box tortoises 100 years. Some plants, such as trees, live much longer than animals. Redwood trees, for example, live more than 3000 years and bristleconne pine trees can live over 4000 years.

     

        The life expectancy of people, who live in industrialized societes, is increasing rapidly; in fact it has doubled in the past hundred years. When, comparing males and females, one finds that women generally live longer than men. The oldest person in the world, until recently, was a French woman Jeanne Calment. At her dead Madame Calmet was both blind and deaf, but  had not lost her sharp wit, for which she had become quite famous. Asked, what kind of future she expected she replied: '' A very short one''. Bragging about her smooth skin, she said: ''I've only had one wrinkle in my life and I'm sitting on it''. 

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