I’m afraid to grow old—we’re all afraid. In fact, the fear of growing old is so

题文

I’m afraid to grow old—we’re all afraid. In fact, the fear of growing old is so great that every aged person is an insult and a threat to the society. They remind us of our own death, that our body won’t always remain smooth and responsive, but will someday betray(背叛) us by aging. The ideal way to age would be to grow slowly invisible, gradually disappearing, without causing worry or discomfort to the young. In some ways that does happen. Sitting in a small park across from a nursing home one day, I noticed that the young mothers and their children gathered on one side, and the old people from the home on the other.
Whenever a youngster would run over to the “wrong” side, chasing a ball or just trying to cover all the available space, the old people would lean forward and smile. But before any communication could be established, the mother would come over, murmuring embarrassed apologies, and take her child back to the “young” side.
Now, it seemed to me that the children didn’t feel any particular fear and the old people didn’t seem to be threatened by the children. The division of space was drawn by the mothers. And the mothers never looked at the old people who lined the other side of the park. These well-dressed young women had a way of sliding their eyes over, around, through the old people; they never looked at them directly. The old people may as well have been invisible; they offended the aesthetic eye of the mothers.
My early experiences were somewhat different; since I grew up in a small town, my children had more of a nineteenth-century flavor. I knew a lot of old people, and considered some of them friends.
小题1:People are afraid of growing old because it is usually associated with ______.A．insultB．threatC．deathD．betrayal小题2:In the author’s opinion, it is a perfect way to ______.A．grow old slowly and then die unnoticedB．grow old suddenly and then dieC．shut oneself up from others when growing oldD．remain young all one’s life and then die suddenly小题3:It can be inferred that young mothers would try to keep their children away from the old because ______.A．they feared their children might hurt the oldB．they didn’t like their children to take up the space belonging to the oldC．they felt it was wrong to play balls near where the old stayedD．they didn’t want their children to have anything to do with the old小题4:The author believes the division between the old and the young is _____.A．made by peopleB．understandableC．formed naturallyD．traditional小题5:From the passage, we learn that the author ______.A．used to have the same experience as the young have todayB．has never been afraid of getting oldC．was quite free to know and befriend old people in his childhoodD．both B and C 题型：未知 难度：其他题型

答案

小题1:C
小题2:A
小题3:D
小题4:A
小题5:C 

解析

文章介绍了人们都害怕变老，因为老年和死亡有关，为此，很多年轻的妈妈不愿意让自己的孩子和老人有关系，而作者认为老年和青年的区别是认为造成的。
小题1:细节题：从文章第一段的句子：They remind us of our own death, that our body won’t always remain smooth and responsive, but will someday betray(背叛) us by aging.可知人们害怕变老，因为这和死亡有关，选C
小题2:细节题：从文章第一段的句子：The ideal way to age would be to grow slowly invisible, gradually disappearing, without causing worry or discomfort to the young.可知在作者看来一个完美的方式是慢慢变老，在不经意中死去，选A
小题3:细节题：从文章第三段的句子：The division of space was drawn by the mothers. And the mothers never looked at the old people who lined the other side of the park. These well-dressed young women had a way of sliding their eyes over, around, through the old people; they never looked at them directly可知年轻妈妈会让孩子远离老人，因为她们不想让孩子和老人有任何关系，选D
小题4:细节题：从文章第三段的句子：The division of space was drawn by the mothers.可知老年和青年的区别是由人造成的，选A
小题5:细节题：从文章最后一段的句子：I knew a lot of old people, and considered some of them friends.
可知作者在年轻的时候，自由的了解老人和老人交朋友。选C 

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