The old concerns lose impo~ance and some of them vanished altogether. A.develop
The old concerns lose impo~ance and some of them vanished altogether.
A.developed
B.disappeared
C.1inked
D.combined
The old concerns lose impo~ance and some of them vanished altogether.
A.developed
B.disappeared
C.1inked
D.combined
听力原文: Many of us believe that a person's mind becomes less active as he grows older. But this is not true, according to Dr. Lissy F. Javik, professor of psychiatry at the University of California, Los Angeles. Dr. Jarvik has studied the mental functioning of aging persons for several years. For example, one of her studies concerns 136 pairs of identical twins, who were first examined when they were already 60 years old. As Dr. Jarvik's continued the study of the twins into their 70s and 8Os, their minds did not generally decline as was expected.
However, there was some decline in their psychomotor speed. This means that it took them longer to accomplish mental tasks than it used to. But when speed was not a factor, they last very little intellectual ability over the years. In general, Dr. Jarvik's studies have shown that there is no decline in knowledge or reasoning ability. This is true not only into the 30s and 40s but also into 60s and 70s as well.
As for learning new things, and ability to remember, studies by Dr. Jarvik and others show that the old are equal to the young. It is true that older people themselves often complain that their memory is not as good as it once was. However, much of what we call "loss of memory" is not that at all. There usually was incomplete learning in the first place. For example, the older person perhaps had trouble hearing or poor vision, or inattention, or was trying to learn the new thing at a speed that was too fast.
In the cases where the older person's mind really seems to decay, it is not necessarily a sign of a decay due to old age or "senility". Often it is simply a sign of a depressed emotional state. The depression usually can be counteracted by counseling, therapy with a psychologist, or medications which fight depression.
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A.It remains as active as ever.
B.It tends to be less active.
C.It loses the ability to reason.
D.It functions well in learning new things.
The old concerns lose importance and some of them vanish altogether.
A.disappear
B.develop
C.linger
D.renew
The old concerns lose importance and some of them vanish altogether.
A.develop
B.disappear
C.link
D.renew
The old concerns lose importance and some of them vanished altogether.
A.developed
B.disappeared
C.1inked
D.combined
A.A government agency.
B.A car removal center in Los Angeles.
C.A place where old cars are fixed.
D.An agency that tries to clear the streets.
It can be concluded from Paragraph 2 that the author believes
A.social and economic concerns should be added to old political rights.
B.jobs, housing, health care and food should be the basic rights.
C.when more rights are added, things will be getting better.
D.we shouldn't add more rights to those old political rights.
What is Street Horizons?
A.A government agency.
B.A car removal center in Los Angeles.
C.A place where old cars are fixed.
D.An agency that tries to clear the streets.
Which of the following statements is INCORRECT?
A.ATM will help the elderly customers save time.
B.The elderly need more assistance and instructions in using computers.
C.The bank takes old people"s concerns into consideration.
D.It"s not feasible for the elderly to learn how to use computers.
A.fierce competition from business rivals
B.Japanese sticking to old internet norms
C.legal concerns over privacy protection
D.a tradition of using internet anonymously
Passage Five
When Frand Dale look over as publisher of Los Angeles Herrald-Examiner,the organization had just ended a ten-year strike. There was much bitterness and as he told us.“Everybody that I found there had lost their curiosity,they’d lost their cutting edge,there was no interest,they just hung on ... I had a real problem.”His very first task was to introduce himself to everybody,to thank them for their loyalty to that point,and to allow them to express their concerns and frustrations. To questions like“What makes you think you can make this thing go?”he responded,“I don’t know yet,but in thirty days I’ll come back to you and let you know what I’ve found.”He recruited a task force of the best people from throughout the Hearst Corporation to do a crash study,and in thirty days he had a written report on what needed to be done,which he shared with the staff. He had taken the all-important first steps to establish mutual trust,without which leadership would not have been possible.
Trust is the emotional glue that binds followers and leaders together. The accumulation of trust is a measure of the legitimacy of leadership. It cannot be demanded or purchased;it must be earned. Trust is the basic ingredient of all organizations,the lubrication that maintains the organization and it is as mysterious and difficult a concept as leadership—and as important.
One thing we can say for sure about trust is that if trust is to be generated,there must be predictability,the capacity to predict another’s behavior. Another way of putting it is to say that organizations without trust would resemble the ambiguous nightmare of Kafka’s The Castle,where nothing can be certain and nobody can be relied on or be held responsible. The ability to predict outcomes with a high probability of success generates and maintains trust.
51. What was Frand Dale’s problem when he became the publisher of Los Angeles Herrald-Examiner?
A. He had lost interest in his publishing career.
B. He found it hard to introduce himself to everyone.
C. Los Angeles Herrald-Examiner was in extreme difficulty.
D. Los Angeles Herrald-Examiner was on a ten-year strike.
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