Question

America is growing older. Fifty years ago, only 4 out of every 100 people in the United States were 65 or older. Today, 10 out of every 100 Americans are over 65. The aging of the population will affect American society in many　ways — edu??cation, medicine, and business. Quietly, the aging of America has made us a very different society — one in which people have a quite different idea of what kind of behavior is suitable at various ages.

A person’s age no longer tells you anything about his/ her social position, marriage or health. There’s no longer a particular year in which one goes to school or goes to work or gets married or starts a family. The social clock that kept us on time and told us when to go to school, get a job, or stop work??ing isn’t as strong as it used to be. It doesn’t surprise us to hear of a 29-year-old university president or a 35-year-old grandmother, or a 70-year-old man who has become a father for the first time. Public ideas are changing.

Many people say, “I am much younger than my mother or my father was at my age.” No one says “Act your age” any more. We’ve stopped looking with surprise at older people who act in youthful ways.

It can be learned from the text that the aging of the popula??tion in America ________.

A. has made people feel younger

       B. has changed people’s social position

C. has changed people’s understanding of age

D. has slowed down the country’s social development

The underlined word “one” refers to ________.

A. a society           B. America          C. a place           D. population

“Act your age” means people should ________.

A. be active when they are old

B. do the right thing at the right age

C. show respect to their parents young or old

D. take more physical exercises suitable to their age

f a’ 25-year-old man becomes general manager of a big firm, the writer of the text would most probably consider it _________.

A. normal      B. wonderful         C. unbelievable     D. unreasonable

Answer 1

【小題1】C

【小題2】A

【小題3】B

【小題4】A

解析:

主要講述美國社會老齡化這一事實以及這一變化對人們的行為、思想等各方面都產生了極大的影響，其中第一、二段的最后一句話尤為重要。

【小題1】C 主旨題。根據(jù)第一、二段的最后一句及第三段可判斷。

【小題2】A 細節(jié)題。one是a society的同位語且后面跟了一個定語從句，可以通過分析句子結構得出正確答案。

【小題3】B 細節(jié)題。全文最后一句話給出了提示。

【小題4】A 推理題。可仔細閱讀第二段中倒數(shù)第二句話。