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Directions: In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are
required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a
word bank following the passage.
Contrary to popular belief, older people generally do not want to live with
their children. Moreover, most adult children _____(26)every bit as much care
and support to their aging parents as was the case in the "good old days", and
roost older people do not feel _____(27).
About 80% of people 65 years and older have living children, and about 90%
of them have _____(28)contact with their children. About 75% of elderly parents
who don't go to nursing homes live within 30 minutes of at least one of their
children.
However, _____(29)having contact with children does not guarantee happiness
in old age. In fact, some research has found that people who are most involved
with their families have the lowest spirits. This research may be _____(30),
however, as ill health often makes older people more _____(31)and thereby
increases contact with family members. So it is more likely that poor health,
not just family involvement, _____(32)spirits.
Increasingly, researchers have begun to look at the quality of
relationships, rather than at the frequency of contact, between the elderly and
their children. If parents and children share interests and values and agree on
childrearing practices and religious _____(33)they are likely to enjoy each
other's company. Disagreements on such matters can _____(34)cause problems. If
parents are angered by their daughter's divorce, dislike her new husband, and
disapprove of how she is raising their grandchildren, _____(35)are that they are
not going to enjoy her visits.
A.abandoned
B.advanced
C.biased
D.chances
E.commitment
F.dampens
G.dependent
H.distant
I.frequent
J.fulfillment
K.grant
L.merely
M.provide
N.understandably
O.unrealistically
参考答案：
26. 正确选项 M provide
27. 正确选项 A abandoned
28. 正确选项 I frequent
29. 正确选项 L merely
30. 正确选项 C biased
31. 正确选项 G dependent
32. 正确选项 F dampens
33. 正确选项 E commitment
34. 正确选项 N understandably
35. 正确选项 D chances |
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发表于 2017-11-25 18:30:04