1.（）are senior citizens. A、People of 65 years old B、People over 65 years of age C、People between 60 and 65 years old D、 Retired people2.Many senior citizens（）. A、are enjoyable B、live together with their families C、feel unproductive, lonely and unsafe D、feel safe in big cities3.Other senior citizens（）.A、 feel free to do thingsB、think it possible to enjoy hobbies and sports and travelC、associate with their fellow senior citizens who have common interests and equal free time :D、AII of the above4.Senior citizens are gaining social influence because（）A、the number of senior citizens is growing and because senior citizens are more activeB、senior citizens have experienceC、their average life span is longerD、they do more work now5.Implied but not stated:（）.A、Most of American senior citizens have lived a lonely and unhappy lifeB、They have played an important part in societyC、Like young people, senior citizens can still enjoy everything they likeD、Their average lifespan is becoming longer and longer

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听力原文： People over the age of 65 in the U.S.A. are called senior citizens. Life for these people is different from that for younger Americans. Most senior citizens retire, or no longer work full time. Also it is unusual for people of this age to live with their children and grandchildren. Grandparents tend to live in their own houses or apartments away from their families.

For many senior citizens, the year after 65 is not enjoyable. They feel unproductive when they no longer work. Their lives lose meaning. In addition, they may feel lonely being away from their families and the contacts they had in their work. Moreover, they become more concerned with their health as they grow olden If they live in big cities, they often worry about their safety.

Other senior citizens enjoy their lives. They feel free to do things they were not able to do when they were working and raising families. They now have time to enjoy hobbies and sports and travel. They associate with their fellow senior citizens who have common interests and equal free time. Many senior citizens move to retirement communities located in warm climates. Some senior citizens continue to work beyond retirement age. Many find new careers and professional opportunities after they retire.

The number of senior citizens in the U.S. is increasing rapidly because people are living longer than before. The average life span for Americans is now more than 74 years. Because of their larger numbers and more active life styles, senior citizens are gaining social influence in the country, both politically and economically. Their concerns are receiving a wider audience than ever before. The time may come when all Americans will look forward to becoming senior citizens.

How old are senior citizens？

A．People of 65 years old.

B．People over 65 years of age.

C．People between 60 and 65 years old.

D．Retired people.

people is different from that for younger Americans. Most senior citizens retire, or no longer work full time. Also it is unusual for people of this age to live with their children and grandchildren.

For many senior citizens, the year after 65 is not enjoyable. They feel unproductive when they no longer work. They lives losing meaning. In addition, they may feel lonely being away from their families and the contacts they had in their work. Moreover, they become more concerned with their health as they grow older, If they live in big cities, they often worry about their safety. Other senior citizens enjoy their lives. They feel free to do things they were not able to do when they were working and raising families.

The number of senior citizens in the U. S. is increasing rapidly because people are living longer than before. Because of their large numbers and more active life Styles, senior citizens are gaining social influence in the country, both politically and economically. Their concerns are receiving a wider audience than ever before. The time may come when all Americans will look forward to becoming senior citizens.

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A．People of 65 years old.

B．People over 65 years old.

C．People between 60 and 65 years old.

D．Retired people.

leasant talk.Just give them a telephone call and ask for, say, a daughter, son-in-law and grandchild.They will show up at your door, and greet you emotionally as if they hadn’t seen you for years.

Some 15 couples have so far hired “families”.“We have nearly 80 people on the waiting list.” Said the president of the company that offers such services, “What is common about these senior citizens is that they are thirsty for human love.We are helping them make their dreams come true.”

Where once big families with three or more generations living together were common, now numbers are reducing fast.In cities there are very few indeed.Many old people see their families only rarely, if at all.This may be because the children’s bosses have sent them to a distant city, even abroad, or just because busy family members cannot find time to visit their parents.

“We’ve seen many cases in which parent-children relations are not in a happy state,” company president continues.“When a son finally visits his parents after a long while, it is often just to ask for money or for them to let him have their property(财产)early.”

Loneliness is not a one-way street.“One young mother came to us to ask about grandparents,” he added.

The company is now developing into other fields.Their services include providing “employees” for businessmen to scold and “lovers” for young people unlucky in love.Company’s “lovers” for hire is not a service to be misunderstood, company president makes clear.

“You shouldn’t think about our lover too romantically,” he said, “She’s there to act as an adviser on how to find a girlfriend.”

11.Old couples in Japan hire family members ().

A.to ask for help when they are ill

B.to realize their big-family dreams

C.to seek love and comfort

D.to strengthen parent-children relations

12.In the sentence “what is common about these senior citizens is that they are thirsty for human love”, “senior citizens” could best be replaced by() .

A.high-ranking officials in cities

B.rich old couples living in cities

C.respectable ladies and gentlemen

D.old people

13.Which of the following is not the reason that Japanese grown-ups seldom visit their parents？()

A.They are too busy.

B.They work in distant cities.

C.They can’t afford expensive visits to their parents.

D.Their relations are not very tight.

14.“Loneliness is not a one-way street” means that() .

A.both the old and the young will feel lonely

B.living alone is not a one-way street

C.young mother with a little child will feel lonely

D.one young mother will hire “grandparents” for their child

15.When a Japanese young man hires a “lover”, ()

A.she will be his lover

B.she will offer him valuable advice on love affairs

C.she will bring him a girlfriend

D.she will tell him her own love story

n designed to help senior citizens living alone.

Manufactured by robotics company Shanghai PT Info, the brightly colored robot, which costs 5,000 yuan ($790), was launched on Aug 14 to help entertain and monitor elderly people.

In Shanghai last year, the number of registered residents at least 60 years old was 4 million. That was nearly 30 percent of the population. By 2018, the figure is projected to rise to 5 million.

With many living alone, robots such as Roby Mini can help play a crucial role in caring for the elderly. "It will change the way people interact with digital products," Hong says.

Founded in May, Shanghai PT Info had already done the groundwork. In fact, the research team spent three years developing the speech recognition system before the firm was officially launched.

With 360-degree wheels hidden under its body, Roby Mini can follow a person through face recognition and strike up a conversation, tell jokes or provide information.

The robot also works as a computer terminal, supplying weather information, ordering groceries online and even booking taxis. Roby Mini can be connected to other gadgets as well, such as smart wristbands or magnetic devices on doors.

Roby Mini can also connect an elderly owner to a doctor through its high-definition screen.Already Shanghai PT Info is talking to three community hospitals in Shanghai's Minhang district. Since the robot is linked to the Internet, it can support long-distance audio and video calls.

Mass production started this month and Shanghai PT Info plans to manufacture 200,000 units this year.

But the future is not easy for Shanghai PT Info. Earlier this year, Flyingwings Intelligent Robot Technology (Shanghai) introduced a machine with sensors that will ring an alarm when an elderly person falls down.Tianjin ShangjiuShengyuan Technology Group also developed a robot for seniors in 2014. Owners can turn on the lights and air-conditioning units by pressing buttons on the machine.It can also remind elderly owners to take pills, and inform. them of hospital checkups and family birthdays.

1. Roby Mini is the name of.{A; B; C}

A. a robotics company

B. a robot

C. a senior citizen living alone

2. Roby Mini is designed to.{A; B; C}

A. help look after children living alone in senior high school

B. help entertain and monitor senior citizens

C. change the way people interact with digital products

3. According to this passage, the number of registered residents at least 60 years old will be. {A; B; C}

A. 4 million next year

B. 30 percent of the population

C. increase to 5 million by 2018

4. The writer thinks “the future is not easy for Shanghai PT Info” because.{A; B; C}

A.there are too many elder people in Shanghai

B. Roby Mini cannot ring an alarm when an elderly person falls down.

C. the company will face tough competition in the marketplace

5. The best title for this passage is.{A; B; C}

A. How to Use a Robot

B. Elder People Increase in Shanghai

C. Robot Gives Help to Older People

on--are one-way propositions: they push their content at us. The Web is two-way, push and pull. In finer point, it combines the one-way reach of broadcast with the two-way reciprocity (互惠) of a mid-cast. Indeed, its user can at once be a receiver and sender of broadcast—a confusing property, but mindstretching!

A second aspect of the Web is that it is the first medium that honors the notion of multiple intelligences. This past century's concept of literacy grew out of our intense belief in text, a focus enhanced by the power of one particular technology-the typewriter. It became a great tool for writers but a terrible one for other creative activities such as sketching, painting, notating music, or even mathematics. The typewriter prized one particular kind of intelligence, but with the Web, we suddenly have a medium that honors multiple forms of intelligence—abstract, textual, visual, musical, social, and kinesthetic. As educators, we now have a chance to construct a medium that enables all young people to become engaged in their ideal way of learning. The Web affords the match we need between a medium and how a particular person learns.

A third and unusual aspect of the Web is that it leverages (起杠杆作用) the small efforts of the many with the large efforts of the few. For example, researchers in the Maricopa County Community College system in Phoenix have found a way to link a set of senior citizens with pupils in the Longview Elementary School, as helper-mentors (顾问). It's wonderful to sec-kids listen to these grandparents better than they do to their own parents, the mentoring really helps their teachers, and the seniors create a sense of meaning for themselves. Thus, the small efforts of the man—the seniors—complement the large efforts of the few—the teachers. The same thing can be found in operation at Hewlett-Packard, where engineers use the Web to help kids with science or math problems. Both of these examples barely scratch the surface as we think about what's possible when we start interlacing resources with needs across a whole region.

What does the word mind-stretching imply？

A．Obtaining one's mental power.

B．Strengthening one's power of thought.

C．Making great demands on one's mental power.

D．Exerting one's mental power as far as possible.

er, these individual tales will display obvious regularities. As a result, some social scientists who first applied the rules of probability to human affairs even questioned the very notion of free will. "Society prepares the crime," wrote Adolphe Quetelet, a Belgian statistician, in 1835,"and the guilty person is only the instrument."

The findings of those statisticians' successors -- that poor children are more likely to fail at school, poor adults to commit crimes and die young, and so on -- are nowadays uncontroversial. And policymakers mostly avoid metaphysics (形而上学). Instead, they try to break such links by spending to "end child poverty" and by targeting health and education initiatives on the neediest. Yet such attempts are doomed to disappoint, because they conceive of each social ill in isolation, rather than treating their shared root cause. Moreover, they misidentify that cause: it is not poverty as such, but inequality.

The evidence, here painstakingly collected, is hard to dispute. Within the rich world, countries where incomes are more evenly distributed have longer-lived citizens and lower rates of fatness, misbehavior. and teenage pregnancy than richer countries where wealth is more concentrated. Studies of British civil servants find that senior ones enjoy better health than their immediate subordinates, who in turn do better than those further down the ladder.

And the evidence is that the differences in status cause these "gradients (梯度)". Low-status Indian children do worse on tests if they must state their identities beforehand. High-status monkeys grew up in captivity(囚禁) show increased levels of stress hormones and become iii more often when they are moved to groups where they no longer dominate.

What to do about this sickness caused by other people's wealth？ Increasing taxes on the rich, or smaller , differences in pay in the first place, say the authors, citing Sweden and Japan as instances of the two choices. A decade ago even left-wing politicians were "intensely relaxed about people getting rich". Now, as it becomes clearer that some of the rich got that way by theft, the idea that they have also caused injury more subtly will gain a readier hearing.

Too ready, perhaps: what if the price of greater equality is lower growth？ The .received wisdom is that rich rewards are necessary to stimulate the innovation on which growth depends. "No loss", say the authors," We have got close to the end of what economic growth can do for us." But that is a claim that needs to be supported, rather than simply made in a few sentences. If our ancestors had declared themselves thus satisfied, we would be without many things that we value -- and that they would have valued too, could they have imagined them. Should we be ready to give up joys we have never known？

What can we learn about statisticians' findings on the poor in the passage？

A．It is controversial for it destroys the reputation of the poor.

B．It may be caused by a deep social phenomenon--inequality.

C．They are individual tales with no regularities and special meaning.

D．They totally change the previous rules of social scientists.

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