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--education, medicine, and business. Quietly, the graying(老齡化) 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 working 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" anymore. We’ve stopped looking with surprise at older people who act in youthful ways.

1.It can be learned from the text that the aging of the population 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

2.The underlined word ‘one’ refers to _______.

A. a society B. America

C. a place D. population

3."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

4.If a 25-year-old man become 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

1.C

2.A

3.B

4.A

【解析】

試題分析：文章主要講的是美國的老齡化問題。美國正在變老�，F(xiàn)在，每100個美國人中有十個人的年齡在65歲以上。人口老齡化將會在教育、醫(yī)學(xué)和經(jīng)濟(jì)等許多方面給美國帶來影響。人們對某一年齡段應(yīng)該做什么事情的看法也發(fā)生了改變。

1.細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)第一段最后“one in which people have a quite different idea of what kind of behavior is suitable at various ages”可知，現(xiàn)在的美國人對某一年齡段應(yīng)該做的事情有了不同的理解，根據(jù)第二段最后“Public ideas are changing.”可知，人們的觀念正在發(fā)生改變，故選C。

2.題2】猜測詞義題。根據(jù)破折號前面的“...has made us a very different society”可知，劃線詞指的是社會，老齡化已經(jīng)讓美國變成了另外一個社會，故選A。

3.題3】猜測詞義題。根據(jù)最后一句“We’ve stopped looking with surprise at older people who act in youthful ways.”可知，人們對老年人以年輕人的方式生活的現(xiàn)象已經(jīng)見怪不怪了，說明人們不再認(rèn)為應(yīng)該在相應(yīng)的年齡做該做的事情，故選B。

4.小題4】推理判斷題。根據(jù)第二段“A person’s age no longer tells you anything about his/her social position, marriage or health...It doesn’t surprise us to hear of a 29-year-old university president”可知，從人們的年齡已經(jīng)無法判斷他的社會地位、婚姻和健康狀況了，聽到有人在29歲就當(dāng)上了大學(xué)校長的消息時，人們不會感到驚訝。說明人們對年齡的理解已經(jīng)打破了固有的觀念，由此可知，一個25歲的年輕人當(dāng)上了一家大型公司的總經(jīng)理也是正�，F(xiàn)象，故選A。

考點：社會類短文閱讀