[单项选择]With over 1.5 million elderly and dependent adults now living in nursing homes throughout the country, abuse and ______ has become a widespread problem.


A. ignore
B. disregard
C. neglect
D. overlook

[单项选择]With over 1.5 million elderly and dependent adults now living in nursing homes throughout the country, abuse and ______ has become a widespread problem.


A. ignore
B. disregard
C. neglect
D. overlook

[单项选择][A] elderly [C] dependable
[B] dependent [D] independent


A. elderly
B. dependent
C. dependable
D. independent

[单项选择]In 1990, over 50 million Americans were working at the ______ wages of any nation in the world.
A. high
B. highly
C. higher
D. highest

[单项选择]For over a million years, our forefathers were basically ______.
A. successful farmers
B. co-operating hunters
C. runners and jumpers
D. skillful sportsmen

[单项选择]German, spoken by just over 100 million people, is one of the world's ten-largest languages __ population.
A. in place of
B. by means of
C. in terms of
D. by way of

[单项选择]Over 2 million customers ______ to Gecko Vision, a popular cable television service based in Lahore.
A. subscribe
B. relate
C. limit
D. apply

[单项选择]By giving the elderly greatly increased purchasing power，it would kick-start the economy back prosperity．（）
A. 根据给老人们被极大增加的购买能力，它将启动经济往回走，奔向繁荣。
B. 通过提高老年人的购买力这一方法，我们可以使经济恢复繁荣。
C. 大幅度提高老年人的购买力，可以让经济复兴。
D. 赋予老年人以大大增强的购买力，它将让经济重新开始繁荣。

[单项选择]The elderly mouse mentioned in paragraph two shows ______.


A. mice are also influenced by old age
B. mice that eat meager food live longer
C. how mice s liver genes behave
D. how to metabolize drugs

[单项选择]The elderly investors no longer employed the stock brokers mainly because ______.

[单项选择]The elderly investors no longer employed tile stock brokers mainly because ______.

[单项选择]

An elderly woman died yesterday after being knocked down by a motorist who had made no (21) to brake (刹车) . A police officer asked the driver, a man of 69, to read the number-plate of a car parked on the opposite side of the road. The man said this was (22) , because it was foggy. In fact, it was a sunny day. After several attempts, even from a distance of two meters, the man (23) failed to read the number plate (24) . He said he had never needed (25) , though he had been (26) in a similar accident the day before.
The question of fitness to (27) comes (28) every time some medical condition relates to an accident like this. Last week two motorists died as result of blackouts (瞬间昏厥) at the wheel. With these (28) in mind, it is not surprising that accident prevention organizations are trying to persuade the government to introduce stricter controls over (30) .

27（）
A. drive
B. travel
C. move
D. entertain