2018年6月大学英语六级听力常考时文：Work, Motherhood a Healthy Combo for Women

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　　1.What seeme to make women relatively healthy, according to Dr Anne McMumn?
A combining of ...
        　　2.Who is the object of Dr Anne McMumn's study? ... women born in 1946.
        　　3.Who have the highest risk of being unhealthy, according to Dr Anne
McMumn's research? The women who had been ...
        　　Juggling a career along with being a wife or partner and parent may help to
keep women healthy, scientists said on Monday. After analyzing data from a study
that tracked the health of Britons born in 1946, they found that women who had
multiple roles were less likely than homemakers, single mothers or childless
females to report poor health or to be obese in middle age. "Women who occupied
multiple roles over the long term reported relatively good health at age 54,"
said Dr Anne McMunn, of University
        　　College London. "It looks like women are relatively healthy as a result of
combining work and family life." In the study published in the Journal of
Epidemiology and Community Health, McMunn and her team analyzed self- reported
health records of more than 2,000 women at the ages of 26 and 54 and their body
mass index, a method of measuring obesity. Information on their marital status,
work history and whether they had children was also included. The researchers
found that women who had been homemakers most of their lives were most likely to
report poor health, followed by single mothers and childless women. Homemakers
tended to gain weight more quickly and had the highest rate of obesity at 38
percent while women who were employees, wives and mothers had the lowest. McMunn
said it has been known for some time that women who combine employment with
motherhood and partnership have better health. But it was not clear whether they
were working and having children because they were healthy, or whether they were
healthy because they were combining the two.