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Our __ sensitivity decreases with age. By age 60, most people have lost 40 percent of their ability to smell and 50 percent of their taste buds.
A . sensible
B . senseless
C . sensitive
D . sensory
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Between 1960 and 1990,a large number of people moved from()
A . core cities to the suburbs
B . rural areas to cities
C . small cities to large cities
D . None of the above
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The rule that only people above 21 years of age can drink ______.
A . A. is a new law promoted by the twenty states
B . B. had been once adopted before the 1960s
C . C. has been enforced since the prohibition of alcohol
D . D. will be carried out all over the country
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Introduce a younger person to an older person, that is, introduce a person of lower status to a person of higher status. When two people are of similar age and rank, introduce the one you know better to the other person.
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The first fight between local people and British soldiers was at ( ).
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People not intended for:1) patients with an allergic reaction to aspirin2) patients having asthma when taking aspirin3) children under the age of(48)
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You say you feel like a______ if you are under a lot of stress because you are the linking person between two people or groups of people who cannot agree.
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Generation gap refers to the difference in ideas, feelings, and interests between the older and younger people. It is especially considered as causing a lack of communication and understanding between the two generations.
There is apparent generation gap between the young and the old nowadays. The younger generation is essentially different from the older generation. The young people live in a new age completely different from the old. They have grown up more happily and are not so dependent on adults as their parents were. They are better educated and enjoy more freedom. They easily accept new things and new ideas. They are more concerned with the present and the future, whereas the world of the older people has vanished, and they do not understand all of the problems of the modern world. They grew up in a world which was different from today's world. They often talk about "the good old days" and tend to assert old things and ideas. They don't like to feel that their beliefs and values are being questioned and threatened. They would like the young to learn from them, but the young refuse to accept their values. They cannot understand why the young complain about the conventional things and old systems and why they want to make changes in these things to fit the needs of modern society, As a result, the old people think the young are not what they were, and most young people are unable to learn from the parents and elders who they will never be.
In order to reconcile the differences, both generation should realize that the world has changed, and that new responses are necessary for many of the problems of society. Besides, some forms of organizations should be established to help the young and the old exchange their ideas and strengthen their mutual understanding so as to bridge the gap.
One important reason for the difference existing between the young and the old is that ______.
A.they live in different ages
B.they live in different countries
C.they live in separate planets
D.they hate each other
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The Republic of Ireland is a young country with more than half of the people under the age of ______.
A.25
B.31
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Which of the following sentences indicate the most intimate relationship between people?
A.Can you go out with me tonight?
B.Do you want to go out with me tonight?
C.If you are free, why don"t we go out tonight?
D.Shall we go out tonight?
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According to the supplementary reading material, when can pupils at French schools use their smartphones?? at the age of 18|at the age of 10|;at the age of 20|;at the age of 15
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People can lose their hearing at any age before they are born, as infants, during childhood, or as【C1】______. Each age of onset has a different name and the deafness may have different【C2】______.
Prenatal deafness means that a baby is born deaf. There are several reasons【C3】______ this can happen. If parents are deaf, they may have a deaf baby. There are genes【C4】______ deafness that hearing parents can also【C5】______ on to their child. Other prenatal【C6】______ of deafness can include: accidents; medicine or drugs that the mother takes; illnesses; and genetic syndromes.
Genetic syndromes are a group of characteristics that a child【C7】______ from its parents. There are two very common types of genetic syndromes related to deafness. One is Waardenburg's Syndrome. Its characteristics are very【C8】______. The
person may have pigment (色素)【C9】______: a streak (条纹) of white hair; two different color eyes; or streaks of white in a man's【C10】______. It is【C11】______ to have the physical traits of Waardenburg's Syndrome but not be deaf.
Usher's Syndrome is also fairly【C12】______. Children with Usher's Syndrome are born with a hearing loss and later lose their【C13】______. The first symptoms of this genetic syndrome【C14】______ at【C15】______ A person with Usher's Syndrome will【C16】______ problems seeing well in the dark. Later, they will lose their peripheral (外围的) vision and see only within a tunnel area in front of them. This is called "tunnel vision." Persons may eventually lose more and more of their vision and become blind or【C17】______ blind. If you notice that a(n)【C18】______ person does not see you when you stand at his or her【C19】______, that person may have this syndrome. The best way to communicate with a person who has Usher's Syndrome is to stand directly in front and to sign【C20】______.
【C1】
A. adults
B. friends
C. relatives
D. students
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Write a short essay of about 200 words concerning one of the 3 topics: Xu Xiake;Traveling life of today's Chinese people;The relationship between travel and life
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Forty May Be the New 30 As Scientists Redefine Age Is 40 really the new 30? In many ways people today act younger than their parents did at the same age.
Scientists have defined a new age concept and believe it could explain why populations are aging, but at the same time seem to be getting younger.
Instead of measuring aging by how long people have lived, the scientists have factored in how many more years people can probably still look forward to.
"Using that measure, the average person can get younger in the sense that he or she can have even more years to live as time goes on," said Warren Sanderson of the University of New York in Stony Brook.
He and Sergei Scherbov of the Vienna lnstitute of Demography (人口统计学) at the Austrian (奥地利的) Academy of Sciences, have used their method to estimate how the proportion of elderly people in Germany, Japan and the United States will change in the future.
The average German was 39.9 years old in 2000 and could plan to live for another 39.2 years, according to research reported in the journal Nature on Wednesday.
However, by 2050 the average German will be 51.9 years old and will be expected to live another 37.1 years. So middle age in 2050 would occur at around 52 years instead of 40 years as in 2000.
"As people have more and more years to live they have to save more and plan more and they effectively are behaving as if they were younger," said Sanderson.
Five years ago, the average American was 35.3 years old and could plan for 43.5 more years of life. By 2050, the researchers estimate it will increase to 41.7 years and 45.8 future years.
"A lot of our ski/Is, our education, our savings and the way we dear with our health care depend a great deal on how many years we have to live," said Sanderson.
This dimension of how many years people have to live has been completely ignored in the discussion of aging so far.
第36题:People 40 years of age today seem to be as young as
A.their parents were at the same age.
B.their parents were at the age of 30.
C.their children will be at the same age.
D.their children will be at the age of 30.
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What can be said of the normal process of aging, from a linguistic point of view? In general (1)_____, there is a clear and (2)_____ relationship: no-one would have much difficulty (3)_____ a baby, a young child, a teenager, a middle-aged person, or a very old person from a tape recording. With children, (4)_____ is possible for specialists in language development, and people experienced (5)_____ child care, to make very detailed (6)_____ about how language correlates with age in the early years. (7)_____ is known about the patterns of linguistic change that affect older people. It is plain that our voice quality, vocabulary, and style. alter (8)_____ we grow older, but research (9)_____ the nature of these changes is in its earliest stages. However. a certain amount of (10)_____ is available about the production and (11)_____ of spoken language by very old people, especially regarding the phonetic changes that take place.
Speech is (12)_____ to be affected by reductions in the (13)_____ of the vocal organs. The muscles of the chest (14), the lungs become less elastic, the ribs (15)_____ mobile: as a result, respiratory efficiency at age 75 is only about half (16)_____ at age 30, and this has (17)_____ for the ability to speak loudly, rhythmically, and with good tone In addition, speech is affected by poorer movement of the soft palate and changes in the facial skeleton, especially around the mouth and jaw. There are other, more general signs of age. Speech rate slows, and fluency may be more erratic. Hearing (18)_____, especially after the early fifties. Weakening (19)_____ of memory and attention may affect the ability to comprehend complex speech patterns. But it is (20)_____ all had news: vocabulary awareness may continue to grow, as may stylistic ability—skills in narration, for example. And grammatical ability seems to be little affected.
A.speech
B.terms
C.ways
D.cases
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Our__________sensitivity decreases with age. By age 60, most people have lost 40 percent of their ability to smell and 50 percent of their taste buds.
A. sensible
B. senseless
C. sensitive
D. sensory
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听力原文:In the United States, from 10 to 15 percent of all children between the ages of 5 and 17 have one or more learning disabilities. Early diagnosis and treatment are important because specialized teaching techniques can help many of these students overcome their disability and succeed in school.
(54)
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听力原文: Naturally, a large number of senior citizens in America are looking forward to enjoying their retirement, but the recent trend in retirement has made it harder and harder. Some people have to delay their retirement by a few years and keep working to earn extra income, and those who have already quit their job have a very tough time finding another one. According to the nation's largest credit-counseling agency, the baby boomer generation is the first generation that is going into retirement carrying substantial credit-card debt. The average credit-card balance among Americans over the age of 65 climbed 149 percent between 1989 and 2001. Those between the ages of 55 and 64 carried a similar amount of debt.
(88)
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Some people have the age-old desire to put the joke on others.
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Migration is usually defined as "permanent or semi-permanent change of residence". However, our concern is with movement between nations, not with internal migration within nations, although such movements often exceed international movements in volume. Today, the motives of people who move short distances are very similar to those of international migrants.
Students of human migration speak of "push" and "pull" factors, which influence an individual's decision to move from one place to another. Push factors are associated with the place of origin. A push factor can be as simple and mild a matter as difficulty in finding a suitable job, or as traumatic as war, or severe famine. Obviously, refugees who leave their homes with guns pointed at their heads are motivated almost entirely by push factors (although pull factors do influence their choice of destination).
Pull factors are those associated with the place of destination. Most often these are economic, such as better job opportunities or the availability of good land to farm. In general, pull factors add up to an apparently better chance for a good life and material well-being than is offered by the place of origin. When there is a choice between several attractive potential destinations, the deciding factor might be a non-economic consideration such as the presence of relatives, friends, or at least fellow countrymen already established in the new place who are willing to help the newcomers settle in.
Besides push and pull factors, there are what the sociologists call "intervening obstacles." Even if push and (or) pull factors are very strong they still may be outweighed by intervening obstacles, such as the distance of the move, the trouble and cost of moving, the difficulty of entering the new country, and the problems likely to be encountered on arrival. The decision to move is also influenced by "personal factors" of the potential migrant. The prospect of packing up everything and moving to a new and perhaps very strange environment may appear interesting and challenging to an unmarried young man and appallingly difficult to a slightly older man with a wife and small kids. Similarly, the need to learn a new language and customs may excite one person and frighten another. Regardless of why people move, migration of large numbers of people causes conflict. The United States and other western countries have experienced adjustment problems with each new wave of immigrants. It has usually taken several decades for each group to be accepted into the mainstream of society in the host country.
Today it is found that movement between nations often exceed international movements in volume.
A.True
B.False
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A great difference between American social customs and those of other countries is the way in which names are used. Americans have little concern for "rank", especially socially. (76) Most Americans do not want to be treated in any especially respectful way because of their age or social rank; it makes them feel uncomfortable. Many Americans even find the terms "Mr. ", "Mrs." or "Miss." too formal. People of all ages may prefer to be called by their first names. "Don't call me Mrs. Smith, just call me Sally." Using only first names usually indicates friendliness and acceptance. However, if you do not feel comfortable using only first names, it is quite acceptable to be more formal. Just smile and say that after a while you will use first names but you are accustomed to being more formal when you first meet someone.
Very often, introductions are made using both first and last names: "Mary Smith, this is John Jones." In this situation you are free to decide whether to call the lady "Mary" or "Miss Smith". Sometimes both of you will begin a conversation using last names, and after a while one or both of you may begin using first names instead. You have a choice: if you don't want to use first names so quickly, no one will think it impolite if you continue according to your own custom.
In the first paragraph the author tells us that ______.
A.Americans do not talk about rank, especially socially
B.Americans feel uncomfortable when talking about rank
C.Americans take interests in social customs
D.Americans don't care much about social rank
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What's intense in a relationship is newness.That's why the great romances of literature are never between people who stay together.
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_______ is the study of interactions between people from and different cultural backgrounds
A.Culture
B.Intercultural communication
C.International communication
D.Interethnic communication
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The Republic of Ireland is a young country with more than half of the people under the age of ______.A.25
B.31