* 本题备选项需点击原文空格处获取,在列表上点选即可。 Contrary to popular belief, older people generally do not want to live with their children. Moreover, most adult children (26)_____ every bit as much care and support to their aging parents as was the case in the “good old days”, and most older people do not feel (27)_____. About 80 of people 65 years and older have living children, and about 90 of them have (28)_____ contact with their children. About 75 of elderly parents who don’t go to nursing homes live within 30 minutes of at least one of their children. However, (29)_____ having contact with children does not guarantee happiness in old age. In fact, some research has found that people who are most involved with their families have the lowest spirits. This research may be (30)_____, however, as ill health often makes older people more (31)_____ and thereby increases contact with family members. So it is more likely that poor health, not just family involvement, (32)_____ spirits. Increasingly, researchers have begun to look at the quality of relationships, rather than at the frequency of contact, between the elderly and their children. If parents and children share interests and values and agree on childrearing practices and religious (33)_____, they are likely to enjoy each other’s company. Disagreements on such matters can (34)_____ cause problems. If parents are angered by their daughter’s divorce, dislike her new husband, and disapprove of how she is raising their grandchildren, (35)_____ are that they are not going to enjoy her visits.
* 本题备选项需点击原文空格处获取,在列表上点选即可。 Contrary to popular belief, older people generally do not want to live with their children. Moreover, most adult children (26)_____ every bit as much care and support to their aging parents as was the case in the “good old days”, and most older people do not feel (27)_____. About 80 of people 65 years and older have living children, and about 90 of them have (28)_____ contact with their children. About 75 of elderly parents who don’t go to nursing homes live within 30 minutes of at least one of their children. However, (29)_____ having contact with children does not guarantee happiness in old age. In fact, some research has found that people who are most involved with their families have the lowest spirits. This research may be (30)_____, however, as ill health often makes older people more (31)_____ and thereby increases contact with family members. So it is more likely that poor health, not just family involvement, (32)_____ spirits. Increasingly, researchers have begun to look at the quality of relationships, rather than at the frequency of contact, between the elderly and their children. If parents and children share interests and values and agree on childrearing practices and religious (33)_____, they are likely to enjoy each other’s company. Disagreements on such matters can (34)_____ cause problems. If parents are angered by their daughter’s divorce, dislike her new husband, and disapprove of how she is raising their grandchildren, (35)_____ are that they are not going to enjoy her visits.
题目解答
答案
provide╎abandoned╎frequent╎merely╎biased╎dependent╎dampens╎commitment╎understandably╎chances
解析
本题主要考查根据上下文选择恰当词汇的能力,涉及动词、形容词、副词等词性的辨析。解题核心在于理解文章主旨(老年人与子女的关系),并结合逻辑关系词(如however、however等)判断空格处所需词义。需注意固定搭配(如“chances are that”)和语境推断(如“biased”需联系后文“ill health”推断研究偏差的原因)。
第(26)题
关键词:as was the case in the “good old days”
逻辑:句意为“成年子女提供的照顾与过去一样多”,空格需填动词,表示“提供”支持,故选provide。
第(27)题
关键词:feel
逻辑:句意为“老年人不觉得自己被遗弃”,空格需填形容词,表示“被遗弃的”,故选abandoned。
第(28)题
关键词:contact
逻辑:句意为“90%的老年人与子女保持频繁联系”,空格需填形容词修饰contact,故选frequent。
第(29)题
关键词:does not guarantee
逻辑:句意为“仅仅与子女接触并不能保证幸福”,空格需填副词修饰动名词,故选merely。
第(30)题
关键词:as ill health often makes older people more...
逻辑:句意为“研究可能有偏见”,因后文解释健康问题导致接触增多,空格需填形容词,故选biased。
第(31)题
关键词:dependent
逻辑:句意为“健康问题使老年人更依赖他人”,空格需填形容词,故选dependent。
第(32)题
关键词:spirits
逻辑:句意为“健康状况而非家庭接触影响情绪”,空格需填动词表示“抑制”,故选dampens。
第(33)题
关键词:religious
逻辑:句意为“父母与子女在宗教信仰上达成一致”,空格需填名词,故选commitment。
第(34)题
关键词:cause problems
逻辑:句意为“分歧很自然会导致问题”,空格需填副词修饰动词,故选understandably。
第(35)题
关键词:are that
逻辑:句意为“可以肯定的是他们不会喜欢她的探望”,固定搭配chances are that,故选chances。