America is growing older. Fifty years ago, only 4 out of every 100 people in the United States were 65 or older. Today,10 out of every 100 Americans are over 65. The aging of the population will affect American society (社会) in many ways —education, medicine, and business. Quietly, the growing of America has made us a very different society —one in which people have a quite different idea of what kind of behavior is suitable at various ages.

A person’s age no longer tells you anything about his/her social position (职位、地位), marriage or health. There’s no longer a particular year in which one goes to school or goes to work or gets married or starts a family. The social clock that kept us on time and told us when to go to school, get a job, or stop working isn’t as strong as it used to be. It doesn’t surprise us to hear of a 29-year-old university president or a 70-year-old man who has become a father for the first time. Public ideas are changing.

Many people say, ‘I am much younger than my mother—or my father—was at my age.’ No one says ‘ Act your age’ any more. We’ve stopped looking with surprise at older people who act in youthful ways.

1．It can be learnt from the text that the aging of the population in America ______.

　　　 A. has made people feel younger

　　　 B. has changed people’s social position

　　　 C. has changed people’s understanding of age

　　　 D. has slowed down the country’s social development

2．The underlined word ‘one’ in the first paragraph refers to____.

　　　 A. a society　 　 B. America 　 C. a place 　　 D. population

3．."Act your age " in the last paragraph means people should ______.

　　　 A. be active when they are old

　　　 B. do the right thing at the right age

　　　 C. show respect for their parents young or the old

　　　 D. take more physical exercise suitable to their age

4．If a 20-year-old man becomes general manager of a big company, the writer of the text would most probably consider it ______.

　　　 A. normal 　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 B. wonderful 　　　

　　　 C. unbelievable 　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 　　 D. unreasonable

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从下列A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出一个最佳答案填空.

　　Mrs White likes 1 She seems short and thin, but she is stronger than any one of her workmates. Her husband likes drinking and 2 much money on it. She has to work hard to buy 3 food for her family.

　　It was her thirtieth birthday yesterday. Her 4 had little money to buy an (a) 5 present for her. He had to buy a cheap necklace (项链) and gave it to her 6 the party started.

　　This evening, after the Whites had supper, the woman went to the 7 to buy some bread for the next breakfast. At a street corner rushed out a young man and 8 to rob(抢劫)her 9 her necklace. She collared him(揪住衣领)to stop him doing that. The young man had to 10 as quickly as he could．A policeman 11 it and came up to her and said, "Could you tell 12 character(特征)the young man has, madam? We'll try our best to 13 him. "

　　" 14 , sir," said the woman. "He robbed me of my necklace but I robbed him of his. Mine is 15 glass but his is made of goldD．"

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