Today we have an ______ need to recognize a new ph...

Today we have an equivalent need to recognize a new phase of life that comes after high school graduation, continues through college, and then leads to starting a family and having a career, the so-called odyssey years. （）

A．The so-called odyssey years will be recognized as a new stage of life which starts from entering college to their settling down with a family and career．

B．Today we are also required to recognize a new life stage which starts from high school graduation through college till they settle down with a family and a career． This new phase might be called the odyssey years, the years of self-discovery．

C．Today we have to recognize a new life stage of the ir settl ing down with a family and having a career, which might be called the odyssey years ．

Today we (have made)( great achievements), but tomorrow we (shallwin)

A B C

still (great victories.)

D

Today we (have made) (great achievements), but tomorrow we (shall win) still (great victories).

A．have made

B．great achievements

C．shall win

D．great victories

Your complaint is being______; when we have anything to report we'll write to you again.

A．looked through

B．looked over

C．looked after

D．looked into

We have to realize how old, how very old, we are. Nations are classified as "aged" when they have 7 percent or more of their people aged 65 or above, and by about 1970 every one of the advanced countries had become like this. Of the really ancient societies, with over 13 percent above 65, all are in Northwestern Europe. We know that we are getting even older, and that the nearer a society approximates to zero population growth, the older its population is likely to be—at least, for any future that concerns us now.

To these now familiar facts a number of further facts may be added, some of them only recently recognized. There is the apparent paradox that the effective cause of the high proportion of the old is births rather than death. There is the economic principle that the dependency ratio—the degree to which those who cannot earn depend for a living on those who can—is more advantageous in older societies like ours than in the younger societies of the developing world, because lots of dependent babies are more of a liability than numbers of the inactive aged. There is the appreciation of the historical truth that the aging of advanced societies has been a sudden change.

If "revolution" is a rapid resettlement of the social structure, and if the age composition of the society counts as a very important aspect of that social structure, then there has been a social revolution in European and particularly Western European society within the lifetime of everyone over 50.@Taken together, these things have implications which are only beginning to be acknowledged. These facts and circumstances had a leading position at a world gather about aging as a challenge to science and to policy, held at Vichy in France.

There is often resistance to the idea that it is because the birth rate fell earlier in Western and Northwestern Europe than elsewhere, rather than because of any change in the death rate, that we have grown so old. But this is what elementary demography makes clear. Long life is altering our society, of course, but in experiential terms. We have among us a very much greater experience of continued living than any society that has preceded us anywhere, and this will continue. But too much of that lengthening experience, even in the wealthy West, will be experience of poverty and neglect, unless we do something about it.

If you are in your thirties, you ought to be aware that you can expect to live nearly one third of the rest of your life after the age of 60. The older you are now, the greater this proportion will be, and greater still if you are a woman.

From paragraph 1, we know that really aged societies may include

A．all developed nations without exception.

B．every one of Western European countries.

C．countries in Northwestern Europe.

D．some European and American nations.

听力原文：M: I'm thinking of going to another country.

W: Do I have to remind you that we have invested a lot of time and money in your career here?

Q: What's the woman's attitude towards the man's plan?

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A．She is against the man's plan.

B．She thinks it needs a lot of money.

C．They need some time to think about it.

D．It's good for his career development.

Sometimes we have specific problems with our mother; sometimes, life with her can just be hard work. If there are difficulties in your (1)_____, it's best to deal with them, (2)_____ remember that any (3)_____ should be done (4)_____ person or by letter. The telephone is not a good (5)_____ because it is too easy (6)_____ either side to (7)_____ the conversation.

Explain to her (8)_____ you find difficult in your relationship and then (9)_____ some new arrangements that you think would establish a (10)_____ balance between you. Sometimes we hold (11)_____ from establishing such boundaries because we are afraid that doing (12)_____ implies we are (13)_____ her. We need to remember that being (14)_____ from our mother does not (15)_____ mean that we no longer love her. If the conflict is (16)_____ and you cannot find a way to (17)_____ it, you might decide to give up your relationship with your mother for a while. Some of my patients had (18)_____ "trial separations". The (19)_____ allowed things to simmer down, enabling (20)_____.

A．relationship

B．emission

C．emulation

D．interpretation