Questions 62 to 66 are based on the following passage. How old is "old" The answer has changed over the years. Two hundred years ago, you were old at 35. That was the average life expectancy then. At the turn of the 19th century, as medical knowledge advanced, the average life expectancy increased to 45. In 1950, 70-year-olds were really old. Today, a healthy 70-year-old is looking forward to many more active years. So, how old is old The answer is one you’ve heard many times, from all sorts of people. "You are as old ( or young) as you feel. " The calendar simply tells you how many years you have lived. Your body tells you how well you’ve lived. "Youth", wrote an unknown author, "is not a time of life--it is a state of mind. Nobody grows old by living a number of years; people grow old by deserting (抛弃) their ideals. " Old is a point of view. Alice Brophy, when she was with the New York City Commission for the Aging, said, "It annoys me when people say, ’Gee, you look young for your age. ’ What does that mean Is there some model that you’re supposed to look a certain way at 65 and 75 and 85 You know, you can die old at 30 and live young at 80. " It is often believed that most older people are in poor health. But the fact is that there are neither biological nor physiological (生理学的) reasons to connect poor health with growing older. Older people are more likely to be affected with illness and physical disabilities than you are, but old age itself is not a disease. It’s possible to remain physically fit throughout your life. What encouraging information does this passage offer
A. One is likely to live an entirely healthy life.
B. Cheerful people will suffer less when they grow old.
C. People tend to look young if they take more care of themselves.
D. We will find some models to follow if we want to stay young.
· Read the article below about how to handle work after treatment for cancer. · Choose the correct word or phrase to till each gap from A,B,C or D on the opposite page. · For each question 21-30,mark one letter(A,B,C or D)on your Answer Sheet.Continuing to Heal After Returning to Work You are on medical symptom.after learning that you have cancer,and you plan to return to work after your treatment.Should you return full time or part timeAccording to the American Cancer Society,a great number of workers who receive a (21) of cancer do retum to their jobs during or after treatment. (22) ,it’s better to come back in stages rather than all at once.Doctors (23) working two or three days the first week and then returning to full time from there, (24) ,on the energy level.After all,you can’t just walk into the office and expect to (25) .at the same level you did before treatment.Just because you are healthy enough to go back to work doesn’t mean you are necessarily ready to work eight hours (26) .a roW. What if you have to come back full time for financial reasonsHow do you (27) .feeling sick or tired on the jobYou’d better be honest about it.Talk to your manager,immediate co-workers and people who (28) .directly to you about how much work you can handle and what you need to (29) .It’s also important to communicate to coworkers (30) you need to get through the day-it could be lying down for 20 minutes to regain your strength,or acknowledging that you can no longer work through lunch.
A. symptom
B. diagnosis
C. cure
D. result
Reading involves looking at graphic symbols and formulating mentally the sounds and ideas they represent. Concepts of reading have changed (67) over the centuries. During the 1950’s and 1960’s especially, increased attention has been (68) to defining and describing the reading process. Although specialists agree that reading (69) a complex organization of higher mental (70) , they disagree on the exact nature of the (71) Some experts, who regard language (72) as a code using symbols to represent sounds, (73) reading as simply the decoding of symbols into the sounds they stand (74) . These authorities (75) that meaning, being concerned with thinking, must be taught independently of the decoding process. Others maintain that reading is inexplicably (无法解释地) (76) to thinking, and that a child who pronounces sounds without (77) their meaning is not truly reading. The reader, (78) some, is not just a person with a theoretical ability to read but one who (79) reads. Many adults, although they have the ability to read, have never read a book in its (80) . By some expert they would not be (81) as readers. Clearly, the philosophy, objectives, methods and materials of reading will depend on the definition one uses. By the most (82) and satisfactory definition, reading is the ability to (83) the sound-symbols code of the language, to interpret meaning for various (84) , at various rates, and at various levels of difficulty, and to do (85) widely and enthusiastically. In short reading is the interpretation of ideas through the use of symbols (86) sounds and ideas.
A. interpreting
B. mentioning
C. explaining
D. recalling
Reading involves looking at graphic symbols and formulating mentally the sounds and ideas they represent. Concepts of reading have changed (67) over the centuries. During the 1950’s and 1960’s especially, increased attention has been (68) to defining and describing the reading process. Although specialists agree that reading (69) a complex organization of higher mental (70) , they disagree on the exact nature of the (71) Some experts, who regard language (72) as a code using symbols to represent sounds, (73) reading as simply the decoding of symbols into the sounds they stand (74) . These authorities (75) that meaning, being concerned with thinking, must be taught independently of the decoding process. Others maintain that reading is inexplicably (无法解释地) (76) to thinking, and that a child who pronounces sounds without (77) their meaning is not truly reading. The reader, (78) some, is not just a person with a theoretical ability to read but one who (79) reads. Many adults, although they have the ability to read, have never read a book in its (80) . By some expert they would not be (81) as readers. Clearly, the philosophy, objectives, methods and materials of reading will depend on the definition one uses. By the most (82) and satisfactory definition, reading is the ability to (83) the sound-symbols code of the language, to interpret meaning for various (84) , at various rates, and at various levels of difficulty, and to do (85) widely and enthusiastically. In short reading is the interpretation of ideas through the use of symbols (86) sounds and ideas.
A. purposes
B. degrees
C. stages
D. steps