2008年职称英语考试综合类课堂笔记一百零七

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4.An important（重要的） feature（特征） of a society（社会） in which people live a long life（过一种长寿的生活） is that
A)it places more emphasis on (更注重， 更强调) educating（教育） the young（年轻人）．
B)it is both wise（英明的， 博学的） and energetic（精力充沛的）.
C)it lacks（缺少） the curiosity（好奇心） to experiment（实验） what is new．
D)it welcomes（欢迎） Changes（变化）．
4. C。 细节题。利用问题句中涉及修饰词的结构（an important feature）及备选项中出现的细节信息词或修饰词（A：the young. B: wise, energetic. C: curiosity. D: change ）共同作为答案线索，在文章中查找答案相关句：
If your doctor could give you a drug that would let you have a healthy life for twice as long， would you take it?
The good news is that we may be drawing near to that date．Scientists have already extended the lives of flies，worms and mice in laboratories．Many now think that using genetic treatments we will soon be able to extend human life to at least 140 years.
This seems a great idea．Think of how much more time we could spend chasing our dreams， spending time with our loved ones，watching our families grow and have families of their own．
“Longer life would give us a chance to recover from our mistakes and promote long term thinking，”says Dr Gregory Stock of the University of California School of Public Health. “It would also raise productivity by adding to the year we can work．”
Longer lives don’t just affect the people who live them．They also affect society as a whole．“We have war poverty, all sons of issues around，and I don’t think any of them would be at all helped by having people live longer,” says US bioethicist Daniel Callahan．“The question is ‘What will we get as a society?’ I suspect it won’t be a better society．”
It would certainly be a very different society．People are already finding it more difficult to stay married．Divorce rates are rising．What would to marriage in a society where people lived for 140 years? And what would happen to family life if nine or 10 generations of the same family were all alive at the same time?
Research into ageing may enable women to remain fertile for longer. And that raises the prospect of having 100-year-old parents，or brothers and sisters born 50 years apart1 ．We think of an elder sibling as someone who can protect us and offer help and advice．That would be hard to do if that sibling came from a completely different generation．
Working life would also be affected，especially if the retirement age was lifted．More people would stay in work for longer. That would give us the benefits of age-skill，wisdom and good judgment ．
（第3题答案相关句） On the other hand，more people working for longer would create greater competition for jobs． It would make it more difficult for younger people to find a job．Top posts would be dominated by the same few individuals，making career progress more difficult．And how easily would a 25-year-old employee be able to communicate with a 125-year-old boss?
（第10段） Young people would be a smaller part of a society in which people lived to 140 ．It may be that such（这样的） a society（社会） would place less importance on （不太注重）guiding（引导） and educating（选项A中的核心词） young people，and more on making life comfortable（舒服的） for the old（老年人）．
And society（社会） would feel very different（不同的） if more（更多） of its members（成员） were older. There would be more wisdom（wise的家族词汇），but less energy(energetic的家族词汇). Young people like to move about．old people like to sit still． Young people tend to act without thinking．old people tend to think without acting．Young people are curious and like to experience different things．Old people are less enthusiastic about（对...热心） change. In fact，they are less enthusiastic about everything．
根据10，11 段里的答案相关句判断C是答案。