[填空题]Today’s U.S. athletes usually avoid being like a role model since that will ruin their reputation.

[填空题]Today’s U.S. athletes usually avoid being like a role model since that will ruin their reputation.

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Today I would like to tell you about the effects of old age on health. Actually today a lot of improvements have taken place in the care of old people and old people’s health is not nearly so bad as it used to be.
Probably many of the fears that people have of growing old are greatly exaggerated(夸大). Most people, for example, dread becoming senile. But in fact very few people become senile Perhaps only about 15% of those over 65 become senile. Actually much more common is in fact caused by doctors ourselves. And that is over-medication. Nearly 80% of people over 65 have at least one serious illness, such as high blood pressure, heating difficulty or heart disease And very often to combat these they take a number of drugs and of course sometimes there are interactions among those drugs. And this can cause a lot of complications from mental confusions, very commonly, to disturbance of the heart rhythrn(节奏). So this is a problem that doctors have to watch out fo
A. the effects of old age on health
B. old people
C. people’s fear of getting old
D. old people’s diseases

[填空题]Today I would like to talk about the early days of movie making in the late nineteenth and early (36) centuries. Before the (37) films of D. W. Griffith, film makers were limited by several (38) questions of the era. According to one, the camera was always fixed at a viewpoint (39) to that of the spectator in the theatre, a position now known as the long shot. It was another convention that the (40) of the camera never changed in the middle of a (41) . In last week’s films, we saw how Griffith ignored both these limiting (42) and brought the camera closer to the actor.
This shot, now known as a full shot, was considered (43) at the time. For Love of Gold, was the name of the film in which the first use of the full shot. After progressing from a long shot to the full shot, the next logical step for Griffith was to bring in the camera still closer, in what is now called the close-up. (44)