[单项选择]By "we whistle past the rest home as well as the graveyard", it is meant that____________.


A. Europe is turning into a continent of the elders
B. demographic changes are frustrating
C. people tend to avoid unpleasant places
D. people are reluctant to tackle the problem of aging

[单项选择]By "we whistle past the rest home as well as the graveyard", it is meant that ______.


A. Europe is turning into a continent of the elders
B. demographic changes are frustrating
C. people tend to avoid unpleasant places
D. people are reluctant to tackle the problem of aging

[单项选择]

Passage Two
When we see well, we do not think about our eyes very often. It is only when we cannot see perfectly that we realize how important our eyes are.
People who are near-sighted can only see things that are very close to their eyes.’ Everything else is not so clear. Many people who do a lot of close work, such as writing, reading and sewing, become near sighted. Then they have to wear glasses in order to see distant (远处的) things clearly.
People who are far-sighted suffer from just the opposite problem. They can see things that are far away, but they have difficulty in reading a book unless they hold it at arm’s length. If they want to do much reading, they must get glasses, too.
Other people do not see clearly because their eyes are not exactly the right shape. They have what is called astigmatism (散光). This, too, can be corrected by glasses. Some people’s eyes become cloudy because of cataracts (白内障). Long ag
A. experience
B. recognize
C. feel
D. imagine