题目
The objection to mandatory retirement is that it throws people out of their jobs at a【C11】______ arbitrary age, with out any regard to their individual abilities. There is no【C12】______ to suggest that most people over the age of sixty-five or seventy are【C13】______ working; at the turn of the century, in fact,70 percent of men over sixty-five were 【C14】______ in the labour force. Mandatory retirement【C15】______ implies that people are capable of productive labour【C16】______ the day before their seventieth birthday, then【C17】______ become physically or mentally incapable of【C18】______ their jobs. It also implies that we treat all members of the same age group 【C19】______ they had identical competence or incompetence at their jobs when, in fact, the mental and the physical abilities of any group of people【C20】______ at the same time become more dissimilar, not more similar, as they grow older.
【C1】
A.only too
B.too
C.very too
D.not
第1题
It was until quite late in life that i discovered how easy it was __8__to say:"i don't know." i find with middle age no one expects me to walk twenty-five miles
第2题
Middle age has its compensations. Youth is bound hand and foot with the shackles of public opinion. Middle age enjoys freedom.I remember that when i left the school i said to myself: __1__"Hence forward. I can get up when i like and go to bed when i like." That of course was an exaggeration, and i soon found that whenever you have an aim you must sacrifice something of freedom to achieve it. But by the time you have reached middle age you discovered how __2__much freedom it was worth to sacrifice in order to achieve any aim that __3__you have on view. When i was a boy i was tortured by shyness, __4__and middle age has to a great extent brought me a relief of this. I __5__have now no such feeling and i save myself much discomfort. I always hated cold water, but for many years i bath in cold seas because __6__i wanted to be like everybody. __7__It was until quite late in life that i discovered how easy it was __8__to say:"i don't know." i find with middle age no one expects me to walk twenty-five miles, or to play a scratch game of golf, or to dive from a height of thirty feet. This is all to the good and makes life pleasant, but i should no longer care if they do. That is what makes __9__youth unhappy, the vehement anxiety to be like other people, and that is what makes middle age intolerable, the reconciliation with __10__oneself.
第3题
Mental Activities Help Save Memory
Doing mental activities is helpful. Reading books and writing at any age may save memory, a new (1) finds.
The study was conducted by some American neurologists (神经病学家). It (2) 294 people. They were given (3) on memory and thinking. They had the tests once a year for six years. They were also asked to talk about their mental activities during childhood, in their youth, during middle age and at their (4) age.
Some of those people did mental activities both (5) and late in life. They had a slower (6) of decline in memory than the others. The others (7) did such activities. Their rate of decline in memory was 48% (8) .
"Mental activities like reading and writing are great. They (9) bring benefits. We shouldn’t (10) their effects on our children, ourselves and our parents," said Robert Wilson, lead author of the study.
A. early
B. tests t
C. seldom
D. taught
E. faster
F. produce
G. study
H. Current
I. involved
J. neglec
K. rate
L. really
第4题
A.Turning old
B.Middle age
C.Young age
D.Turning old Middle age
第5题
此题为判断题(对,错)。
第7题
此题为判断题(对,错)。
第8题
A.Turning old
B.Middle age
C.Young age
D.Turning old Middle age
第9题
第10题
A.“Age of Art”
B.“Age of History”
C.“Age of Faith”
D.“ Age of Science”
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