经过了长时间的努力，考验我们的时候终于来到了。明天我们要怀着轻松的心情走进考场，希望每个人都能发挥出超常水平，达到最佳状态！同样，即使我们这次没能通过，我们也没有必要气馁。因为真正重要的是我们在学习过程中学到的知识和获得的经验技巧。四六级并不是我们英语学习道路上的终点，恰恰相反——这是一个新的起点：让我们以更广阔的视野获取最快捷的咨询的途径。最后感谢大家长时间支持我们的节目，与我们共同分享学习中点点滴滴苦涩与清醇。
It doesn't matter if we win or lose. It only matters if we try as hard as we can. If we give every ounce of spirit we've got. What do we say? ---Say "Yeah! I can!!" loudly. ~~~:)
In the United States, older people rarely live with their adult children. But in many other cultures children are expected to care (21) their aged parents. In some parts of Italy, the percentage of adult children who (22) with their parents (23) 65 to 70 percent. In Thailand, too, children are expected to care for their elderly parents; few Thai elderly live (24).
21. [A] about [B] after [C] for [D] over
22. [A] reside [B] recite [C] redeem [D] rebel
23. [A] amasses [B] amounts [C] attains [D] reaches
24. [A] lone [B] alone [C] lonesome [D] lonely
What explains these differences in living arrangements (25) cultures? Modernization theory (26) the extended family household to low levels of economic development. In traditional societies, the elderly live with their children in large extended family units for economic reasons. But with modernization, children move to urban areas, leaving old people (27) in (28) rural areas. Yet modernization theory cannot explain why extended family households were never common in the United States or England, or why families in Italy, which is fully modernized, (29) a strong tradition of intergenerational living. Clearly, economic development alone cannot explain (30) living arrangements.
25. [A] over [B] across [C] within [D] above
26. [A] associated [B] linked [C] united [D] combined
27. [A] aside [B] after [C] over [D] behind
28. [A] isolated [B] segregated [C] idealized [D] secluded
29. [A] maintain [B]promote [C]reserve[D]support
30. [A] appointed [B] assigned [C]preserved [D] preferred
Another theory associated intergenerational living arrangements with inheritance patterns. In some cultures, the stem family pattern of inheritance (31). (32) this system, parents live with a married child, usually the oldest son, who then (33) their property when they die. The stem family system was once common in Japan, but changes in inheritance laws, (34) broader social changes brought (35) by industrialization and urbanization, have (36) the (37). In 1960 about 80 percent of Japanese over 65 lived with their children; by 1990 only 60 percent did—a figure that is still high (38) U. S. standards, but which has been (39) steadily. In Korea, too, traditional living arrangements are (40): the percentage of aged Koreans who live with a son declined from 77 percent in 1984 to 50 percent just 10 years later. Although most elderly Koreans still expect to live with a son, their adult children do not expect to live with their children when they grow old.
31. [A] controls [B] overtakes [C] predominates [D] overwhelms
32. [A] at [B] under [C] by [D] over
33. [A] delivers [B] conveys [C]conceives [D] inherits
34. [A] as well as [B] might as well [C] as well [D] well as
35. [A] off [B] up [C] around [D] about
36. [A] undermined [B] decreased [C] diminished [D] defeated
37. [A] authority [B] usage [C] habit [D] tradition
38. [A] by [B] on [C] with [D] in
39. [A] inclining [B] reclining [C] declining [D] reducing
40. [A] receding [B] removing [C] invading [D] eroding
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