A、annealing
B、austenitizing
C、quenching
D、normalizing
A、annealing
B、austenitizing
C、quenching
D、normalizing
People say one man's trash(垃圾) is another man's treasure. That____comes to me as I____the house purchased in 1962 by my parents. My mother passed away in 1996. My father left the house____my sister and me when he died a few months ago. After Dad was____, we looked around the____house where we grew up and that Dad loved so much. At first we felt so____all the stuff(东西) left. Like so many of their generation,my parents____everything. And like many in my generation, we faced anxious____about what to abandon and what to keep. As we started throwing out old phone books and every medical bill from every____my parents ever saw, I also____many hidden treasures. Mom's pocketbook was in their bedroom closet, which had everything in it,____her hairbrush with hair, as if she were still here. And Dad, who was a World War II veteran(退伍兵) and a world traveler,____everything -- from little spoons from all over the world to every letter he wrote to his parents while in the____. The letters he wrote during the war____his thoughts as a young man. Later, in the basement, I____our old kitchen table, which brought back____of my parents and sister and me having breakfast together. I'm realizing all these things____my parents' life journey. Each time I go to____, I find something that reminded me of my childhood or teaches me something about my parents I____knew.____, from the shabby furniture to all the hidden treasures, means more to me than all the money in the world.
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For much of the world, the death of Richard Nixon was the end of a complex public life. But researchers who study bereavement (丧失亲人) wondered if it didn't also signify the end of a private grief. Had the former president merely run his allotted fourscore and one, or had he fallen victim to a pattern that seems to afflict (折磨) longtime married couples: one spouse quickly following the other to the grave?
Pat, Nixon's wife of 53 years, died last June after a long illness. No one knows for sure whether her death contributed to his. After all, he was elderly and had a history of serious heart disease. Researchers have long observed that the death of a spouse particularly a wife is sometimes followed by the untimely death of the grieving survivor. Historian Will Durant died 13 days after his wife and collaborator, Ariel; Buckminster Fuller and his wife died just 36 hours apart. Is this more than coincidence?
"Part of the story, I suspect, is that we men are so used to ladies feeding us and taking care of us," says Knud Helsing, an epidemiologist (流行病学家) at the Johns Hopkins School of Public health, "that when we lose a wife we go to pieces. We don't know how to take care of ourselves." In one of several studies Helsing has conducted on bereavement, he found that widowed men had higher mortality rates than married men in every age group. But, he found that widowers who remarried enjoyed the same lower mortality rate as men who'd never been widowed.
Women's health and resilience (愉悦) may also suffer after the loss of a spouse. In a 1987 study of widows, researchers from the University of California, Los Angeles, and UC, San Diego, found that they had a dramatic decline in levels of important immune-system cells that fight off disease. Earlier studies showed reduced immunity in widowers.
For both men and women, the stress of losing a spouse can have a profound effect. "All sorts of potentially harmful medical problems can be worsened," says Gerald Davison, professor of psychology at the University of Southern California. People with high blood pressure, for example, may see it rise. In Nixon's case, Davison speculates, "the stroke (中风), although not caused directly by the stress, was probably hastened by it." Depression can affect the surviving spouse's will to live; suicide are elevated in the bereaved, along with accidents not involving cars.
Involvement in life helps prolong it. Mortality, says Duke University psychiatrist Daniel Blazer, is higher in older people without a good social-support-system who don't feel they're part of a group or a family, that they "fit in" somewhere. And that's a more common problem for men, who tend not to have as many close friendships as women. The sudden absence of routines can also be a health hazard, says Blazer. "A person who loses a spouse shows deterioration in normal habits like sleeping and eating." he says. "They don't have that other person to orient them, like when do you go to bed, when do you wake up, when do you eat, when do you take your medication, when do you go out to take a walk? Your pattern is no longer locked into someone else's pattern, so it deteriorates."
While earlier studies suggested that the first six months to a year - or even the first week - were times of higher mortality for the bereaved, some newer studies find no special vulnerability (弱点) in this initial period. Most men and women, of course do nor die as a result of the loss of a spouse. And there are ways to improve the odds. A strong sense of separate identity and lack of over-dependency during the marriage are helpful. Adult sons and daughters, siblings (兄弟姐妹) and friends need to pay special attention to a newly widowed parent. They can make sure that he or she is socializing, getting proper nutrition and medical care, expressing emotion and, above all, feeling needed and appreciated.
段落翻译: English plays an important role in the workplace and when used in the correct and appropriate manner, it can help boost a career or a business. Some may need or want to study business English before they start their careers. Those who are already working have the opportunity to see what they can and cannot do effectively in English in their current job. A valuable skill to have in business is how to negotiate. You need to know what you want, as well as how to bargain and make concessions. Being able to deal with a conflict and knowing how to end negotiations can make a big difference to the outcome.
A、Too much omission
B、Too much addition
C、Too much explanation
D、Ask the speaker to repeat what you didn't catch.
A、extemporariness
B、limitless time
C、versatility
D、mental load
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