With the help of science, the human lifespan keeps rising. However, the real question is if it can go on forever.Professor Jan Vigo and his team believed that an age limit really exists, so they studied how long thesupercentenarians lived. The information on these “super” people helped the team to find out the human lifespanmay be limited to a maximum of about 115 years, and that is almost impossible for most people to get to. Untilnow, there has been only one person to do that. Her name was Jeanne Calmest, and she died at the age of 122 in 1997. This also shows that women are more likely to live longer than men.        By studying people over 110 years old, the team has found that the maximum lifespan hasn’t gone up sincethe 1990s. The main problem is aging. If we can find a way to stop it, we won’t have to worry about the limit tohuman lifespan. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------● lifespan 壽命 if 是否 professor 教授 exist 存在 death 死亡 information 資料 limit 限制 likely 可能地maximum 最高極限 gone up 上升 since 自從 even though 即使 extreme 極端的 aging 老化 chart 圖表
【題組】44. According to the reading, which is true?
(A) The world’s oldest person lived to be 110.
(B) The human lifespan limit is 115, and no one can go over that.
(C) The study shows that men live shorter than women.