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Many elderly people have to live on the money they ______ when they were working.
A．laid up
B．put back
C．set up
D．put aside
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第1题
回答题。
How to Deal With Problems of Growing Old
Thirty-one million Americans are over 60 years of age, and twenty-nine million of them are healthy, busy, productive citizens. By the year 2030, one in every five people in the United States will be over 60. Elderly people are members of the fastest-growing minority in this country. Many call this the "graying of America"
In 1973, a group called the "Gray Panthers" was organized. This group is made up of young and old citizens. They are trying to deal with the special problems of growing old in America. The Gray Panthers know that many elderly people have health problems: some cannot walk well, others cannot see or hear well. Some have financial problems; prices are going up so fast that the elderly can&39;t afford the food, clothing, and housing they need. Some old people are afraid and have safety problems. Others have emotional problems. Many elderly are lonely because of the death of a husband or a wife. The Gray Panthers know another fact, too. Elderly people want to be as independent as possible. So, the Gray Panthers are looking for ways to solve the special problems of the elderly.
The president of the Gray Panthers is Maggie Kuhn, an active woman in her late 70s. She travels across the United States, educating both young and old about the concerns of elders. One of the problems she talks about is where and how elders live. She says that Americans do not encourage elders to live with younger people. As far as Maggie Kuhn is concerned, only elders who need constant medical care should be in nursing homes.
Maggie Kuhn knows that elders need education, too. She spends lots of time talking to groups of older Americans. She encourages them to continue to live in their own houses if it is possible. She also tells them that it is important to live with younger people and to have children around them. This helps elders to stay young at heart.
What health problems do many elderly have ？ 查看材料
A.They feel lonely
B.They are suffering from cancer
C.They cannot walk or see or hear well
D.They have got heart problems
第2题
【C1】
A．hands
B．arms
C．bodies
D．homes
第3题
I had to learn to say “please”, “sorry”, “thank you”, whether I felt it or not. Once, while buying a ticket to Waterloo, I forgot to say “please”. The man at the counter was offended and would not give me the ticket until I had said “please”. When he handed me the ticket, he said “sorry”, and hurried inside to take the only empty seat.
On the way to the office one morning, a man collapsed in my compartment. At Waterloo, everybody left, but I stayed with him until the ambulance arrived and was an hour late getting to the office. I was told that it was not my job to look after strangers.
I found that many did not even look after their own parents who were old and helpless. In India, it is the duty of the children to look after their parent and old relatives. While serving a meal, my mother always gave food to the elderly relatives and children first and ate whatever was left over. The elderly never felt isolated. They lived with their families and contributed to the happiness of the house.
31. How long had the writer stayed in England？
A. Just a year
B. More than a year
C. Almost two years
D. About ten months
32. What does the word “rarely” mean in the first paragraph？
A. seldom
B. always
C. often
D. independent while the wife is dependent
33. What did the writer mean when he said “many had a natural gift for gossip”？
A. Many British people were born speakers
B. Many British people were talkative.
C. Many British people were hot-tempered.
D. Many British people were talented
34. What did the writer mean to say by giving us the examples in the second paragraph？
A. English people are very polite because they always say “thank you” or “sorry”.
B. English people enjoy teaching others lessons of politeness.
C. He had to learn to say “please”, “sorry”, “thank you”.
D. English people say polite words without sincere politeness.
35. What does the last paragraph suggest？
A. Many old people in England were lonely because they were not taken good care of.
B. Old people in India never felt isolated.
C. The writer’s mother always ate whatever was left over.
D. Old people in most countries are respected.
第4题
Questions are based on the following passage．
The ranks of the over 65s grew by 1.4m over the past decade．But old age will not be kind to all of them．One in three will develop dementia （痴呆）， around one in six will end up in a nursing or care home and nearly half will need some forms of care．Few will have laid plans to pay for it．
Knowing the dilemma of elderly voters， the government is moving to change that．Next year it will put ￡ 72，000 on the sum that a person will have to pay towards care．and will raise the means-testing threshold （阀值） from ￡ 23，250 to ￡118，000．
The government had hoped that this reform. would not just relieve elderly nerves but also stimulate an insurance market for end-of-life care．Unfortunately， that is not happening．
Many people continue to assume， wrongly， that the NHS will pay， says Yvonne Braun from the Association of British Insurers．And most are overly optimistic about their health in old age， underestimating （低估） the risks and costs they will suffer．Joan Costa-Font， from the London School of Economics， adds that the idea of care insurance seems to conflict with social values．A kind of familial moral hazard kicks in， as people fear their children will no longer look after them if they are insured．
Care costs are so hard to predict that insurers tend to protect themselves with big insurance expenses， making insurance difficult to afford．The government"s new policy， which was supposed to sort this out， comes with alarming warnings．It does not include the cost of bed and board， which makes up a large amount of care home costs．It is also up to local authorities to determine which care counts towards the policy， meaning people may end up spending more after all．And the policy is higher than the25，000-50，000 recommended to the government by Andrew Dilnot， an economist who reviewed the market．
From next month much will change for retirees， as the government drops the requirement to buy annuities with private pension pots．The government hopes that people will use the new flexibility to plan for their old age， including the possibility that their final years will be spent in a nursing home rather than on the Costa del Sol．
What is the government‘s objective in the reform？ 查看材料
A.To help make plans to pay for care．
B.To ease elderly worries and promote the insurance market．
C.To seek votes from elderly voters．
D.To reduce the costs in a nursing home．
第5题
(1)
A．about
B．after
C．for
D．over
第6题
What explains these 【C5】______ in living arrangements across cultures？ Modernization theory 【C6】______ the extended family household to low levels of economic development. In traditional societies, the elderly live with their children in large extended family units for economic reasons. But with modernization, children move to urban areas, 【C7】______ old people behind in isolated 【C8】______ areas. Yet modernization theory cannot explain why extended family households were never common in the United States or England, or why families in Italy, which is fully modernized, maintain a strong 【C9】______ of intergenerational living. Clearly, economic development alone cannot explain 【C10】______ living arrangements.
Another theory associated intergenerational living arrangements with inheritance patterns. In some cultures, the stem family pattern of inheritance 【C11】______ . 【C12】______ this system, parents live with a married child, usually the oldest son, 【C13】______ then inherits their property when they die. The stem family system was once common in Japan, but changes in inheritance laws, 【C14】______ broader social changes brought 【C15】______ by industrialization and urbanization, have 【C16】______ the tradition. In 1960 about 80 percent of Japanese over 65 lived with their children; by 1990 only 60 percent did — a figure that is still high 【C17】______ U.S. standards, but which has been 【C18】______ steadily. In Korea, too, traditional living arrangements are 【C19】______ : the percentage of aged Koreans who live with a son declined from 77 percent in 1984 to 50 percent just 10 years later. 【C20】______ most elderly Koreans still expect to live with a son, their adult children do not expect to live with their children when they grow old.
【C1】
A．about
B．for
C．of
D．to
第7题
听力原文： The London Borough of Camden provides many services for elderly residents,among which are the preparation for retirement courses.These courses,lasting for ten afternoons,are run three times a year from September to June.They are basically designed for people due to retire within a few years and these students are normally released for half days by their employers,but those already in retirement are also welcome to join. The courses last about ten weeks and cost six pounds per person,normally paid by the employers,with a reduction for those already retired or receiving supplementary benefit.The courses include practical talks from specialist speakers on relevant subjects such as pensions and tax.A wide field of leisure activities is also covered and sufficient time is 1eft for questions and discussion.There is also a senior citizens'club held at the Merry Ward Center on weekday afternoons from one thirty to three thirty.The club arranges discussion groups and handicraft sessions including dress-making and carpentry.Membership is free and a member can attend any courses held there free of charge.Other services at the center include legal advice at reduced rates to those who otherwise could not afford it and free financial advice from the financial section on Monday and Wednesday between six and eight D.m.Any other personal problem can be discussed wim the counselor on Tuesday and Thursday aftemoons from three thirty to four.
What does the speaker say about the conrses？
A．They are offered for those with an interest in the courses.
B．Employers and employees in a company are both welcome.
C．People who will retire in a few years are the target students.
D．Students from a normal university can attend the courses.
第8题
They do almost anything: they sew, clean,【C4】______, paint, cook, repair things,【C5】______books for the blind,【C6】______sick children in hospitals, or【C7】______senior citizens who do not want to go out alone. They give their blood; they work in libraries and schools; they【C8】______documents for new citizens with a language problem or【C9】______money to support local symphony orchestras; they answer the telephone calls of the【C10】______who are thinking of killing themselves, and who need a friendly【C11】______.
Volunteers start community projects too small to attract the attention of organized agencies, or work at jobs【C12】______no funds are available. A(n)【C13】______of city folk will turn an empty【C14】______into a playground for the children of their neighborhood; others decide to repair and paint a few dilapidated houses in their street.【C15】______Women cook and【C16】______two hot meals a day to elderly people【C17】______alone, and too sick or too tired to prepare their own food.【C18】______group calls lonely old people once a day to chat a little and【C19】______if they are all right. Some college students teach English, mathematics, or drawing to the inmates of a local jail. Anywhere one looks, the【C20】______of volunteers is hard at work--not only in the United States, but in many other countries where "volunteerism" is spreading.
【C1】
A．institutions
B．organizations
C．divisions
D．unions
第9题
Research on the benefits of an extremely low-calorie diet【C2】______back to the 1930s, when scientists found that rats lived【C3】______to twice as long when they ate less than control animals. And how about in human？ To fill that【C4】______, scientist Agnes and her colleagues at the University of Muenster【C5】______50 healthy elderly subjects. The【C6】______volunteer was 60 years old and overweight. The researchers【C7】______assigned the volunteers to one of three groups. Twenty people were instructed to reduce their daily calorie【C8】______by 30%, while still eating a【C9】______diet. Another 20 were told to keep their calorie intake the same but increase their【C10】______of unsaturated(不饱和的 )fatty acids. The【C11】______10 volunteers did not change their diets.
After 3 months, all of the volunteers【C12】______a memory test in which they were shown 15 words and asked how many they could remember after 30 minutes.【C13】______average,those in the calorie-restriction group showed a 20%【C14】______over their baseline memory scores taken before they started their diets. Subjects in the other two groups showed【C15】______or no improvement. "Our study【C16】______provides some of the first【C17】______on the impact of calorie restriction on memory in the elderly, but this study has to be【C18】______up now," Floel noted. Her team plans to【C19】______larger studies to determine exactly【C20】______calorie restriction enhances memory.
【C1】
A．reducing
B．declining
C．burning
D．increasing
第10题
听力原文： At one time it was the dream of many little girls to become a nurse. However, (32)America is facing its hospitals in the US have shortages. The demand for nurses spreads widely throughout the nursing field. What has become of these women to be nurses？ The answer lies in not one but several causes．One possibility is the fact that women have greater career options．(33)In the past, women who chose to work outside the home had two basic choices：nursing or teaching．In fact women today are found in nearly every field of work Nursing has been left behind, as women move onto jobs with higher pay and greater status A woman or man in the nursing students are actually being steered away from nursing, told by teachers that they are "too bright to be a nurse"． In fact，(35)the number of elderly patients has almost doubled in the past twenty years. Obviously they (35) require more nurses. (35)AIDS and other diseases have caused more and more people to need nursing care． Usually fatal diseases mean long hospital stay, that is to say, more nurses are needed to care for these patients. It is estimated that the demand for nurses will be doubled the supply in the coming ten years.
(33)
A．Many girls want to become a nurse.
B．Nurses are looked down upon.
C．Nurses are not qualified for the post.
D．Nurses are very short in America.
