It is true that times are changing for the old people in Britain. But

1.Questions 33 to 35 are based on the passage you have just heard. 选项： A、Old people think of the young as "a problem". B、Old people create this "problem" of age difference. C、Old people have a past; young people have a future. D、Old people and young people forget they are all human beings.

2.Passage ThreeQuestions 33 to 35 are based on the passage you have just heard. 选项： A、Old people think of the young as "a problem". B、Old people create this "problem" of age difference. C、Old people have a past; young people have a future. D、Old people and young people forget they are all human beings.

3.Passage 2. 30. 选项： A、ecause more and more people move into big new houses B、ecause many old people sell their house after their children leave C、ecause people want to sell the old house to get money and build their own house D、ecause children often ask their parents to sell the old houses

4.From Paragraph 1, we can infer that_________. 选项： A: old people enjoy living with their relatives B: social services have nothing to do with old people C: old people prefer to live alone so that they can have more personal freedom D: old people are able to keep their rooms clean

5.Perhaps young people will make changes for the old because _______. 选项： A、they are radical about the old age problem B、they feel it necessary to do something for the old C、they are sympathetic towards the old D、they want to ensure their own social position when they get old

4. When older people become senile or too weak and ill to care for themselves,they create grave problems for their families.In the past and in some traditional cultures,they would be cared for at home until they died.Today,with most members of a household working or in school,there is often no one at home who can care for a sick or weak person.To meet this need,a great many nursing homes and convalescent hospitals have been built.These are often profit-making organizations,although some are sponsored by religious and other nonprofit groups.While a few of these institutions arc good,most of them are simply"dumping grounds"for the dying in which"care" is given by poorly paid,overworked,and under-skilled personnel. Paragraph 1______ 选项： A:The old people are heavy load for the society. B:Prolonging human life may lead to population explosion. C:How to prolong human life. D:Dependency load caused by prolonging human life. E:Increased birthrate helps prolong human life. F:How the old people are cared for when they are getting weak in contemporary society.">6.共用题干Prolonging Human Life
1. Prolonging human life has increased the size of the human population.Many people alive to-day would have died of childhood diseases if they had been born 100 years ago.Because more people live longer,there are more people around at any given time .In fact,it is a decrease in death rates,not an increase in birthrates,that has led to the population explosion.
2. Prolonging human life has also increased the dependency load.In all societies,people who are disabled or too young or too old to work are dependent on the rest of society to provide for them. In hunting and gathering cultures,old people who could not keep up might be left behind to die.In times of famine,infants might be allowed to die because they could not survive if their parents starved,whereas if the parents survived they could have another child.
3. In most contemporary societies,people feel a moral obligation to keep people alive whether they can work or not.We have a great many people today who live past the age at which they want to work or are able to work;we also have rules which require people to retire at a certain age.Unless these people were able to save money for their retirement,somebody else must support them.In the United States many retired people live on social security checks which are so little that they must live in near poverty.Older people have more illness than young or middle-aged people;unless they have wealth or private or government insurance,they must often"go on welfare"if they have a serious illness.
4. When older people become senile or too weak and ill to care for themselves,they create grave problems for their families.In the past and in some traditional cultures,they would be cared for at home until they died.Today,with most members of a household working or in school,there is often no one at home who can care for a sick or weak person.To meet this need,a great many nursing homes and convalescent hospitals have been built.These are often profit-making organizations,although some are sponsored by religious and other nonprofit groups.While a few of these institutions arc good,most of them are simply"dumping grounds"for the dying in which"care" is given by poorly paid,overworked,and under-skilled personnel. Paragraph 1______ 选项： A:The old people are heavy load for the society. B:Prolonging human life may lead to population explosion. C:How to prolong human life. D:Dependency load caused by prolonging human life. E:Increased birthrate helps prolong human life. F:How the old people are cared for when they are getting weak in contemporary society.

7.共用题干Generation Gap A few years ago,it was fashionable to speak of a generation gap,a division between young people and their elders.Parents complained that children did not show them proper respect and obedience,while children complained that their parents did not understand them at all.
What had gone wrong?Why had the generation gap suddenly appeared?Actually,the generation gap has been around for a long time.Many critics argue that it is built into the fabric of our society.
One important cause of the generation gap is the opportunity that young people have to choose their own life styles.In more traditional societies,when children grow up,they are expected to live in the same area as their parents,to marry people that their parents know and approve of, and often to continue the family occupation.
In our society,young people often travel great distances for their education,most out of the family home at an early age,marry or live or choose occupations different from those of their parents. In our upwardly mobile society,parents often expect their children to do better than they did:to find better jobs,to make more money,and to do all the things that they were unable to do.
Often,however,the ambitions that parents have for their children are another cause of the division between them.Often they dis-cover that they have very little in common with each other. Finally,the speed at which changes take place in our society is another cause of thie gap between the generations.In a traditional culture,elderly people are valued for their wisdom,but in our society the knowledge of a lifetime may become obsolete overnight.
The young and the old seem to live in two very different worlds,separated by different skills and abilities, No doubt,the generation gap will continue to be a feature of American life for some time to come.Its causes are rooted in the freedoms and opportunities of our society,and in the rapid pace at which society changes.Which one is NOT the cause of the generation gap? 选项： A:Young people like to choose their own life styles. B:American society is changing very fast. C:Parents place high hopes on their children. D:Modern education makes them think differently.

8.According to the lecture, how can we achieve a change of mindset towards old people? 选项： A:Offer better protection for all old people. B:Pay more attention to the financial problems of the elderly. C:Realize that people have different roles when they are of different ages. D:Acknowledge people’s active participation in society regardless of their ages.

9.What was the difference between the odyssey years of young people in the past and today? 选项： A、The young people married later than the people in the past. B、Above all. C、The young people even began to work later than the people in the past. D、The young people have children later than the people in the past.

10.People are always talking about “the Problem of youth”. If there is one ---- which I take leave to doubt ---- then it is older people who create it, not the young themselves. Let us get down to fundamentals and agree that the young are after all human beings ---- people just like their elders. There is only one difference between an old man and a young one: the young man has a glorious future before him and the old one has a splendid future behind him: and maybe that is where the rub is. When I was a teenager, I felt that I was just young and uncertain ---- that I was a new boy in a huge school, and I would have been very pleased to be regarded as something so interesting as a problem. For one thing, being a problem gives you a certain identity, and that is one of the things the young are busily engaged in seeking. I find young people exciting. They have an air of freedom, and they have not a dreary commitment to mean ambitions or love of comfort. They are not anxious social climbers, and they have no devotion to material things. All this seems to me to link them with life, and the origins of things. It’s as if they were in some sense comic beings in violent and lovely contrast with us suburban creatures. All that is in my mind when I meet a young person. He may be conceited, ill-mannered or too self-confident but I do not turn for protection to dreary cliches（陈词滥调）about respect for elders as if mere age were a reason for respect. I accept that we are equals, and I will argue with him, as an equal, if I think he is wrong. (1)、 By “the problem of young”, people mean ______. (2)、 (3)、 (4)、 (5)、选项： A:the problem caused by young people B:the problem needed to be solved by young people C:the problem young problem often meet D:the problem created by the old for young people E:the young have a glorious future but the old have never had any in his life F:both the old and the young have glorious future but the old have already passed it and the young is going towards it

11.Young people don’t understand the old people and the relationship between children and their parents are sometimes so strained that they even fall out like foes.（）选项： A:对 B:错

12.Coversation 1, Q3 选项： A、 People change in old age a lot more than at the age of 21. B、 There are more sick people in old age than in middle age. C、 We should not expect more physical illness among old people. D、 We should expect to find old people unattractive as a group.

13.[单选题]Passage OneWe often hear people talking about the generation gap. The name is new but the idea is old. The world keeps changing and it has always kept changing. During the second century after Christ, a wise man said, “Bury me on my face because in a little while everything will be turned upside down.”There has always been a gap between generations, though more people talk about it now. The following shows what Old Mr. Ellis thinks ‘generation gap’ means: young people and their parents don’t understand each other.“When I was a boy, I thought the world was a beautiful place. My life was very pleasant. But when I was older I learned about people who were treated badly, people who didn’t have enough to eat. I wanted to help them, and I married a girl who wanted to help them, too. We went to meetings and talked a lot, but it didn’t seem to make much difference.“Our children grew up in a world at war. They didn’t know when the war would stop. They wanted their children to have nice clothes and toys. They didn’t want to think about the future. They thought nothing could be done about it.“Now I have grandchildren and they have their own ideas. They are trying to make the world better. They are trying to help other people. They are making people listen to them. I’m proud of their generation.”The gap between generations _________. A has recently appeared B has existed for a long time C only exists in some special times D is something not much talked about today

14.Q: What does the man expect his report on old people will achieve? 选项： A:Help people realize the dangerous situation of old people. B:Help people recognize the importance of old people to our society. C:Help people change their understanding and feelings about old age. D:Help people create an attractive environment for old people to live.

15.What does the man expect his report on old people will achieve? 选项： A: Help people realize the dangerous situation of old people. B: Help people recognize the importance of old people to our society. C: Help people change their understanding and feelings about old age. D: Help people create an attractive environment for old people to live.

16.What can the old team from the young generation? 选项： A:Enjoyment is not sinful B:People should have more leisure time. C:Men might enjoy life. D:One should enjoy one's work.