Question

 Nowadays China is facing a rapidly aging population(人口老龄化)，and the country's one-child policy means it's 1 for families to take care of the old in the future. At the beginning of a new year, 2people hope they can look after the old well when they try to build a well-off society(小康社会).So what's the best way 3 the elderly care? And what still needs to be done to make sure the old will have a happy life after retirement(退休)？

  82-year-old Ma Minhui 4in a nursing home since five years ago. Ma Minhui said, "I lived away from my children. I often worried what I would do 5 I fell ill with no one around. So I decided to move here because the people here can take care of me. And with my friends, I don't feel lonely. So life is 6 here.”

  Life is better in the nursing home. That might be true，but it's also because there is no better 7Almost 8 of grown-up children live away from their parents，leaving many empty nesters(空巢老人).

By the end of 2011 ， 185 million people in China were 60 or over,and the number may 9 about 30 percent of China's total population by the middle of this century. So elderly care needs to be improved.

  Professor Yang Yansui from Tsinghua University said，" There should be more community services 10 a nursing home. The government should take more measures to solve the problem.”

(   ) 1. A. easy    B. difficult

       C. nice    D. bad

(   ) 2. A. America    B. English

      C. Australia    D. Chinese

(   ) 3. A. to improve    B. improving

      C. to solve    D. solving

(   ) 4. A. has lived    B. lives

        C. lived    D. is living

(   ) 5. A. because    B. if

        C. how    D. though

(   ) 6. A. better    B. good

       C. bad    D. worse

(   ) 7. A. problem    B. policy

      C. choice    D. change

(  ) 8.A. second three    B. seconds three

        C. two thirds    D. two third

(   ) 9. A. increase by    B. increase to

       C. slow up    D. slow down

(   ) 10. A. in    B.on

       C. as    D. like

Answer 1

l.B 由下文内容可知，单靠家庭去照顾老人是很难的。

2. D  由文中第一句可知，本文讲述的是中国人口老龄化问题。

3. C the way to solve…意为"解决……的方法"，句意为"解决老人护理的最好办法是什么？"

4. A  由此句中since five years ago可矢口，此句要用现在完成时。

5. B if在此句中弓|导条件状语从句。

6. A  由下一段第一句Life is better in the nursing home，可知在护理中心的生活是更好的。

7. C由下一句句意"在中国有三分之二的年轻人不和自己的父母住在一起，老人们成为了空巢老人。"可知，老人们除了待在护理中心，没有更好的选择。

8. C

9. B increase to意为"增力卩到... ";increase by意为"增力口了. "。

10. D like意为"像……"，介词。