In the next 40 years, the percentage of people in the United States over the age of 65 is expected to double. (26) the needs of this part of the population is a (27) to the ingenuity or genius of America. To a (28) degree, a society is judged by (29) it cares for those who can no (30) care for themselves. High technology (31) the most startling advances in helping the elderly. In (32) to the well-known artificial heart implantation, there are efforts that have already started to (33) artificial lungs, livers, and bones. An electric ear is (34) seventy-five percent effective. They will (35) better medical care by (36) very small dose of drugs into the body continuously. For the older people, even the simplest tasks can be difficult, (37) impossible to perform, American businesses have responded (38) those older people’s needs with a (39) of inexpensive but useful (40) . Companies have designed extra-efficient can openers that (41) people whose hands have become (42) weak to
A. less
B. sooner
C. better
D. longer
As Philadelphia grew from a small town into a city in the first half of the eighteenth century, it became an increasingly important marketing center for a vast agricultural hinterland. Market days (1) the crowded city even more crowded, as farmers from within a (2) of 24 or more kilometers brought their sheep, vegetables, cider and other products for direct sale to the (3) . The High Street Market was continuously (4) throughout the period until 1736, (5) it (6) from Front Street to Third. By 1745 New Market was opened on Second Street. The next year the Callow Hill Market began (7) .
Along with market days, the (8) of twice-yearly fairs persisted in Philadelphia (9) after similar trading days had been discontinued in other colonial cities. The (10) provided a means of bringing handmade goods from (11) places to would-be buyers in the city. Linens and stockings from Germantown, (12) , wer
A. therefore
B. hardly
C. still
D. even
Opinion polls are now beginning to show a reluctant consensus (舆论)that, whoever is to blame and whatever happens from now on, high unemployment is probably here to stay. This means we shall have to find ways of sharing the available employment more widely.
But we need to go further. We must ask some fundamental questions about the future of work. Should we continue to treat employment as the norm Should we not rather encourage many other ways for self - respecting people to work Should we not create conditions in which many of us can work for ourselves, rather than for an employer 41) ___________________________________________.
The industrial age has been the only period of human history in which most people’ s work has taken the form of jobs. The industrial age may now be coming to an end, and some of the changes in work patterns which it brought may have to be reversed. This seems a daunting thought. 42) ___________________________________________. Univer
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