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[单项选择]Much of the American anxiety about old age is a flight from the reality of death. One of the striking qualities of the American character is the unwillingness to face either the fact or meaning of death. In the more somber tradition of American literature - from Hawthorne and Melville and Poe to Faulkner and Hemingway - one finds a tragic depth that belies the surface thinness of the ordinary American death attitudes. By an effort of the imagination, the great writers faced problems which the culture in action is reluctant to face - the fact of death, its mystery, and its place in the back-and- forth shuttling of the eternal recurrence. The unblinking confrontation of death in Greek times, the elaborate theological patterns woven around it in the Middle Ages, tile ritual celebration of it in the rich, peasant cultures of Latin and Slavic Europe and in primitive cultures; these are difficult to find in American life.
Whether through fear of the emotional depths, or because of a dry
A. indifference
B. respect
C. understanding
D. disgust
[简答题]Americans find it difficult to think about old age until they arc propelled into the midst of it by their own aging and that of relatives and friends. Aging is the neglected stepchild of the human life cycle. Though we have begun to examine the socially taboo subjects of dying and death, we have leaped over that long period of time preceding death known as old age. In truth, it is easier to manage the problem of death than the problem of living as an old person. Death is a dramatic, one-time crisis while old age is a day-by-day and yea-by-year confrontation with powerful external and internal forces, a bittersweet coming to terms with one’ s own personality and one’ s life. (1)
We base our feelings on primitive fears, prejudice and stereotypes rather than on knowledge and insight. In reality， the way one experiences old age is contingent upon circumstances of late-life events (in what order they occur, how they occur, when they occur) and the social supports one receives:
[单项选择]How much does the man know about the old man
A. A lot.
B. Nothing.
C. Only his name.
[单项选择]I don’t think about my old home very much, only （ ） and then.
A. now
B. ever
C. then
D. again
[简答题]
Old age and seniority alone do net command authority among the
British: in fact modem life bas been developing so fast that old people often
appear tiresome and out of date. Thus, "We need some young blood" is often heard
in the organizations where the energy and modern methods of younger men are felt
to be more likely to succeed than the long but partly irrelevant experience of
older ones. The wisest of the older generation realize this. They either make an
effort to remain young in heart and keep pace with the time, or else they let
younger men take their place.
It follows that mature British
have no desire to grow old or to look older than they are. Women especially, for
reasons of sexual attraction, long to "stay young", and there is no greater
compliment to a mature woman than to be told "How young you look!" On the other
hand, if a woman’s hairstyle, make-up and clothes reveal an obvious effort to
look artificially young, she is said to
