[简答题]This means that old people often have a good social life with their own clubs and organizations. ( Passage Two)

[简答题]This means that old people often have a good social life with their own clubs and organizations. ( Passage Two)

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Parents often believe that they have a good relationship with their teenagers (青少年). But last summer, Joanna and Henry noticed a change in their older son: suddenly he seemed to be talking far more to his friends than to his parents. "The door to his room is always shut." Joanns noted.
Tina and Mark noticed similar changes in their 14-year-old daughter. "She used to cuddle up (蜷伏) with me on the sofa and talk," said Mark. "Now we joke that she does this only when she wants something, Sometimes she wants to be treated like a little girl and sometimes like a young lady. The problem is figuring out which time is which."
Before age 11, children like to tell their parents what’s on their minds. "In fact, parents are first on the list." said Michael Riera, author of Uncommon Sense for Parents with Teenagers. "This completely changes during the teen years." Riera explained. "They talk to their friends first, th
A. is always busy with his studies
B. doesn’t want to be disturbed
C. keeps himself away from his parents
D. begins to dislike his parents

[单项选择]It is curious how often sympathy for the old and infirm takes a form which actually humiliates them.’ Their friends, with good will, sometimes lean forward to rearrange their neckwear, touching their hair or patting their faces--things they would never presume to do, unasked, to one of their contemporaries. An equally humiliating habit is to talk about old people in front of them as if they were not there, discussing their health.
It is now universally accepted that children should be encouraged to do as much as they can for themselves in order to develop their brains and muscles, but so few people today seem to have time to allow the elderly the same means of keeping their minds and muscles active. They perform innumerable services for the old that they would be much better left to do, even with a struggle, for themselves.
Convenient flats, "motherly" visitors, or organized entertainments cannot make up for the fundamental need which must be satisfied the need to retain to t
A. talk casually about old people in front of them as if they were not there
B. show sympathy for the old
C. take care of the old when they are not ill
D. pat the faces of the contemporaries

[简答题]Good manners represent our values concerning social style. Manners signal our respect for other people and are essential in gaining the acceptance of others. Two-year-old children playing on a slide will stand in line, respecting each other’s turn. If an aggressive child crowds in, the "line" will decide as a group whether to allow it or to shove him out. By the age of 2, a child is already expected by his game-mates to respect the rules of the game. And rules, like manners, define the behavior that others expect from us. A child who is either too aggressive or too retiring to follow the rules is labeled an undesirable by the other children.

[单项选择]"People can also have summer in winter. "means "it is sometimes too ______ in winter."

[单项选择] Ah, the good old days— like last year, when mortgage rates were so low you couldn’’t get a broker to take your calls— they were all too busy processing piles of refis. Now rates on 30-year loans are at 6.5 percent, the highest they’’ve been since the middle of 2002, according to the latest survey by mortgage-finance company Freddie Mac. And many economists, like Freddie’’s Frank Nothaft, expect that upward drift to continue, albeit modestly. Here are tips for dealing with those higher rates in the market now: If you’’re buying a home and looking for a new loan, shop for a fixed-rate deal. The spreads between adjustable-and fixed-rate loans right now are not worth the risk of letting your rates float at a time when the cost of money is on the rise. The rates on new adjustable mortgages are all over 6 percent, too. If you took out one of those scary "option" mortgages that change rates monthly and allow you to defer paying off the principal part of your loan, you could be g
A. The higher the mortgage rate, the busier the brokers are
B. Frank Nothaft believes the mortgage rate will continue to rise
C. The mortgage rate for 30-year loans is 6.5%
D. It is beneficial for the consumer to buy a home when the mortgage rate is low

[填空题]Ports often have river connections.

[判断题]Government buildings often have special paths for those people handicapped.