Section A

Directions: In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage.

Contrary to popular belief, older people generally do not want to live with their children. Moreover, most adult children _____(26)every bit as much care and support to their aging parents as was the case in the" good old days", and roost older people do not feel _____(27).

About 80% of people 65 years and older have living children, and about 90% of them have _____(28)contact with their children. About 75% of elderly parents who don't go to nursing homes live within 30 minutes of at least one of their children.

However, _____(29)having contact with children does not guarantee happiness in old age. In fact, some research has found that people who are most involved with their families have the lowest spirits. This research may be _____(30), however, as ill health often makes older people more _____(31)and thereby increases contact with family members. So it is more likely that poor health, not just family involvement, _____(32)spirits.

Increasingly, researchers have begun to look at the quality of relationships, rather than at the frequency of contact, between the elderly and their children. If parents and children share interests and values and agree on childrearing practices and religious _____(33)they are likely to enjoy each other's company. Disagreements on such matters can _____(34)cause problems. If parents are angered by their daughter's divorce, dislike her new husband, and disapprove of how she is raising their grandchildren, _____(35)are that they are not going to enjoy her visits.

A.abandoned

B.advanced

C.biased

D.chances

E.commitment

F.dampens

G.dependent

H.distant

I.frequent

J.fulfillment

K.grant

L.merely

M.provide

N.understandably

O.unrealistically

【參考答案】

26. 正確選項(xiàng) M provide

27. 正確選項(xiàng) A abandoned

28. 正確選項(xiàng) I frequent

29. 正確選項(xiàng) L merely

30. 正確選項(xiàng) C biased

31. 正確選項(xiàng) G dependent

32. 正確選項(xiàng) F dampens

33. 正確選項(xiàng) E commitment

34. 正確選項(xiàng) N understandably

35. 正確選項(xiàng) D chances

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