课本片段Passage2

　Passage 2

　　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(影响) American society in many ways — education, medicine, and business. Quietly, the graying of America has made us a very different society — one in which people have a quite different idea of what kind of behavior (行为) is suitable (合适) 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.(1997年真题)

　　1. It can be learnt 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 societyB. America

　　C. a placeD. 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 for their parents young or old

　　D. take more physical exercise suitable to their age

　　4. If a 25-year-old man becomes general manager of a big firm, the writer of the text would most probably consider it ____.

　　A. normalB. wonderful

　　C. unbelievableD. unreasonable

　　更多高考信息请访问：新浪高考频道 高考论坛 高考博客圈

　　特别说明：由于各方面情况的不断调整与变化，新浪网所提供的所有考试信息仅供参考，敬请考生以权威部门公布的正式信息为准。