Part Ⅲ Reading Comprehension (40 minutes)
Section A
Directions: In this section,there is a passage with ten blanks.You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage.Read the passage through carefully before making your choices.Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter. Please mark the corresponding letter for each item on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre.You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.
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.
A.abandoned
B.advanced
C.biased
D.chances
E.commitment
F.dampens
G.dependent
H.distant
I.frequent
J.fulfillment
K.grant
L.merely
M.provide
N.understandably
O.unrealistically
答案解析：
26. M 根据原文“most adult children...every bit as much care and support to their aging parents as was the case in the ‘good old days’”，可知这里表达的是大多数成年子女给年迈父母提供关爱和支持，“provide sth. to sb.”是固定搭配，意为“给某人提供某物”，所以选M。
27. A 根据前文“older people generally do not want to live with their children”以及“most adult children...every bit as much care and support to their aging parents”，可知大多数老人不会觉得被子女抛弃，“abandoned”表示“被抛弃的”，符合语境，所以选A。
28. I 根据后文“About 75% of elderly parents who don’t go to nursing homes live within 30 minutes of at least one of their children”，可知这里说的是大约90%的老人和子女有频繁的联系，“frequent”表示“频繁的”，所以选I。
29. L 根据后文“having contact with children does not guarantee happiness in old age”，可知这里是说仅仅和子女有联系并不能保证老年生活幸福，“merely”表示“仅仅，只不过”，所以选L。
30. C 根据后文“as ill health often makes older people more...and thereby increases contact with family members”，可知前面说的研究结果可能是有偏见的，“biased”表示“有偏见的”，所以选C。
31. G 根据后文“and thereby increases contact with family members”，可知身体不好会让老人更依赖家人，“dependent”表示“依赖的”，所以选G。
32. F 根据前文“people who are most involved with their families have the lowest spirits”以及“it is more likely that poor health, not just family involvement”，可知这里说的是更可能是身体不好而不是家庭参与降低了情绪，“dampens”表示“抑制，使低落”，所以选F。
33. E 根据前文“If parents and children share interests and values and agree on childrearing practices”，可知这里说的是在宗教信仰方面也达成一致，“commitment”在这里表示“信仰，忠诚”，符合语境，所以选E。
34. N 根据前文“Disagreements on such matters”，可知在这些问题上有分歧很自然地会导致问题，“understandably”表示“可理解地，自然地”，所以选N。
35. D “are that”这里考查“there are chances that...”的变形，意思是“有可能……”，根据语境，如果父母对女儿的离婚等情况不满，那么他们有可能不喜欢女儿的来访，“chances”符合语境，所以选D。
