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1、大学学位英语考试题库9Part I Writing Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay expressing your views on How to Relieve Stress. You should write at least 120 words but no more than 180 words.Part II Matching Directions: In this section, you are going to read a passage with ten stat
2、ements attached to it. Each statement contains information given in one of the paragraphs. Identify the paragraph from which the Information is derived. You may choose a paragraph more than once. Each paragraph is marked with a letter. Answer the questions by marking the corresponding letter on Answ
3、er Sheet.When Mom and Dad Grow OldA) The prospect of talking to increasingly fragile parents about their future can be “one of the most difficult challenges adult children will ever face,” says Clarissa Green, a Vancouver therapist. “People often tell me they dont want to raise sensitive issues with
4、 their parents about bringing in caregivers or moving,” she says. “Theyll say, I dont want to see dad cry.” But Green usually responds, “Whats wrong with that?” Adult children, she says, need to try to join their parents in grieving their decline, acknowledge their living arrangements may no longer
5、work and, if necessary, help them say goodbye to their beloved home. “Its sad. And its supposed to be. Its about death itself.”B) There are almost four million men and women over age 65 in Canada. Nearly two thirds of them manage to patch together enough support from family, friends, private and gov
6、ernment services to live independently until virtually the day they die, according to Statistics Canada.C) Of the Canadian seniors who live to 85 and over, almost one in three end up being moved sometimes kicking to group living for the last years of their lives. Even in the best-case scenarios （可能出
7、现的情况）, such dislocations can bring sorrow. “Often the family feels guilty, and the senior feels abandoned,” says Charmaine Spencer, a professor in the gerontology department of Simon Fraser University. Harassed with their own careers and children, adult children may push their parents too fast to ma
8、ke a major transition.D) Val MacDonald, executive director of the B. C. Seniors Services Society, cautions adult children against imposing their views on aging parents. “Many baby boomers can be quite patronizing (高人一等的),”she says. Like many who work with seniors, MacDonald suggests adult children d
9、evote many conversations over a long period of time to Collaborating on their parents future, raising feelings, questions and options gently, but frankly. However, many middle-aged adults, according to the specialists, just muddle (应付) through with their aging parents.E) When the parents of Nancy Wo
10、ods of Mulmur Hills, Ont., were in their mid-80s, they made the decision to downsize from their large family home to an apartment in Toronto. As Woods parents, George and Bemice, became frailer, she believed they knew she had their best interests at heart. They agreed to her suggestion to have Meals
11、 on Wheels Start delivering lunches and dinners. However, years later, after a crisis. Woods discovered her parents had taken to throwing out the prepared meals. Her dad had appreciated them, but Bemice had come to believe they were poisoned. “My father was so loyal,” says Woods, “he had hid that my
12、 mother was overwhelmed by paranoia (偏执狂).” To her horror. Woods discovered her dad and mom were “living on crackers and oatmeal porridge” and were weakening from the impoverished diet. Her dad was also falling apart with the stress of providing for Bemice a common problem when one spouse tries to d
13、o everything for an ailing partner. “The spouse whos being cared for might be doing well at home,” says Spencer, “but often the other spouse is burned out and ends up being hospitalized.”F) Fortunately, outside help is often available to people struggling through the often-distressing process of hel
14、ping their parents explore an important shift. Sons and daughters can bring in brochures or books on seniors issues, as well as introduce government health-care workers or staff at various agencies, to help raise issues and open up discussions, says Val MacDonald, whose nonprofit organization respon
15、ds to thousands of calls a year from British Columbians desperate for information about how to weave through the dizzying array of seniors services and housing options. The long list of things to do, says MacDonald, includes assessing their ability to live independently; determining your comfort lev
16、el with such things as bathing a parent; discussing with all household members whether it would be healthy for an elderly relative to move in; monitoring whether, out of pure duty, youre overcommitting yourself to providing a level of care that could threaten your own well-being.G) The shock phone call that flung Nancy Woods and her parents into action came from her desperate dad. “I got this call from my father that he couldnt cope anym
