[简答题]To the writer, the fact that women alter their old-fashioned dresses is seen as ______.

[简答题]old man and women

[单项选择]In old China women used（）
A. to look down
B. to look down upon
C. to be looked down
D. to be looked down upon

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Women have more problems than men in old age. First of all, they have less money—or no money at all—and because of this, they often feel they get less respect, even at home. Quite a large number have no pension (退休金) because they have never worked outside the home, and thirty-eight percent are supported mainly by their husbands or children. Second, a larger number of old women than old men become widows (single women). Men are normally older than the women they marry, and women generally live longer than men. The remarriage among older widows is lower than that among widowers (single men). Statistics (统计) from 1990 in Shanghai show only 52 percent of elderly women with husbands still living, compared to (与……相比) 82 percent of men.
Because of lower incomes and the difficulty of remarriage, many elderly women who live alone, are poor and have almost no social life. Even an old couple lives with children, it is the woman who ends up doing the work ar
A. would have no more problems
B. could live a fairy life
C. would get more respect
D. would need no care of others

[单项选择]The age-old riddle of why many women live longer than men has been solved. It’s their pumping power, British researchers have found.
On average, women live five years longer than men and women over the age of 60 are now the fastest-growing section of the British population. The average male heart becomes weaker with age, and by the age of 70 its power to pump blood around the body could have decreased by up to a quarter of its youthful strength.
David Goldspink, Professor of Cell and Molecular Sports Science at Liverpool John Moores University, said yesterday that women’s longevity is linked to the strength of their hearts. Unlike men, they pump just as strongly at 70 as they do at 20.
"We have found that the power of the male heart falls by 20 -25 percent between 18 and 70 years of age," Professor Goldspink said. "In stark contrast, over the same period there was no age-related decline in the power of the female heart, meaning that the heart of a healthy 70-year-old wom
A. Because women’s pumping power is better.
B. Because women live five years longer than men.
C. Because male’s heart is weaker than female’s.
D. Because the power of women ’ s hearts decreas

[单项选择]The old women made a （） when a boy kicked a football into her garden.
A. rumor
B. fuss
C. testimony
D. temper

[单项选择]Young girls like ______colors while old women enjoy dark ones.
[A] bright [B] deep [C] new