问题 听力题

词汇。用正确的词性填空(共15题,每小题1分,满分15分)

1. She tried to p_______ him to give up smoking, but he wouldn’t listen.

2. We can c________ with people from any country with a good command of English.

3. As he feared that the police would r_______ him, he never went out in daylight.

4. An unfriendly a_______ of the shopkeeper often make customers angry.

5. It’s not right to j_______ a man only by his looks.

6. Little education was a d_________ when he looked for a job.

7. They completely i_______ these facts as if they never existed

8. He has $100,000 life i_________, which his wife will receive if he dies first.

9. He bravely went into the burning house to r______ the boy

10. It is not a word in common ________. (use)

11. We must use candles because the _____________ is off. (electric)

12. I can’t forget the _________ experience. (frighten)

13. She is busy with the __________ of her daughter’s party. (organize)

14. The ______ cost may run out at rather more than we originally expected. (actually)

15. We climbed to the top of the mountain with strong ________. (determine)

答案

选择题
单项选择题

In the United States, older people rarely live with their adult children. But in many other cultures children are expected to care (1) their aged parents. In some parts of Italy, the percentage of adult children who (2) with their parents (3) 65 to 70 percent. In Thailand, too, children are expected to take care of their elderly parents; few Thai elderly live (4) . What explains these differences in living arrangements (5) cultures Modernization theory (6) the extended family household to low levels of economic development. In traditional societies, the elderly live with their children in large extended family units for economic reasons. But with modernization, children move to urban areas, leaving old people (7) in (8) rural areas. Yet modernization theory cannot explain why extended family households were never common in the United States or England, or why families in Italy, which is fully modernized, (9) a p tradition of intergenerational living. Clearly, economic development alone cannot explain (10) living arrangements. Another theory associated intergenerational living arrangements with inheritance patterns. In some cultures, the stem family pattern of inheritance (11) . (12) this system, parents live with a married child, usually the oldest son, who then (13) their property when they die. The stem family system was once common in Japan, but changes in inheritance laws, (14) broader social changes brought (15) by industrialization and urbanization, have (16) the (17) .In 1960 about 80 percent of Japanese over 65 lived with their children; by 1990 only 60 percent did-a figure that is still high (18) U.S. standards, but which has been (19) steadily. In Korea, too, traditional living arrangements are (20) : the percentage of aged Koreans who live with a son declined from 77 percent in 1984 to 50 percent just 10 years later. Although most elderly Koreans still expect to live with a son, their adult children do not expect to live with their children when they grow old.

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