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The Process of Ageing
At the age of twelve years, the human body is at its most vigorous. It has yet to reach its full size and strength, and its owner his or her full intelligence; but at this age the possibility of death is least. Earlier, we were infants and young children, and conquently more vulnerable (易受伤的); later, we shall undergo a progressive loss of our vigour and resistance which, though vague at first, will finally become so steep that we can live no longer, however well we look after ourlves, and however well society, and our doctors, look after us.
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This decline in vigour with the passing of time is called ageing. It is one of the most unpleasant discoveries which we all make that we must decline in this way, that if we esc
ape wars, accidents and dia we shall eventually “die of old age”, and that this happens at a rate which differs little from person to person, so that there are heavy odds in favor of our dying between the ages of sixty-five and eighty. Some of us will die sooner, a few will live longer ---- on into a ninth or tenth decade. But the chances are against it, and there is a virtual limit on how long we can hope to remain alive, however lucky and physically strong we are.
Normal people tend to forget this process unless and until they are reminded of it. We are so familiar with the fact that man ages, that people have for years assumed that the process of losing vigour with time, of becoming more likely to die the older we get, was something lf-evident, like the cooling of a hot kettle or the wearing-out of a pair of shoes. They have also assumed that all animals, and probably other organisms such as trees, or even the univer itlf, must in the nature of things “wear out”.
Most animals we commonly obrve do in fact age as we do, if given the chance to live long enough; and mechanical systems like a wound (上发条的) watch, or the sun, do in fa
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ct an out of energy in accordance with the cond law of thermodynamics (热力学). But the are not similar or equivalent to what happens when man ages. A run-down watch is still a watch and can be rewound. An old watch, by contrast, becomes so worn and unreliable that it eventually is not worth mending. But a watch could never repair itlf — it does not consist of living parts, only of metal, which wears away by friction (摩擦). We could, at one time, repair ourlves — well enough, at least, to overcome all but the most instantly fatal illness and accidents. Between twelve and eighty years we gradually lo this power, an illness which at twelve would knock us over, at eighty can knock us out, and into our grave. If we could stay as vigorous as we are at twelve, it would take about 700 years for half of us to die, and another 700 for the survivors to be reduced by half again.
74. What can be learned from this passage is that ______.
A. people usually are unhappy when they are reminded of ageing
B. children reach their full intelligence at the age of twelve years
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C. people are usually more likely to die at the age of twelve years
D. our first twelve years reprent the peak of human development
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75. The underlined word “it” in the last ntence of Paragraph Two refers to ______.dermabrasion>poj
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A. remaining alive until 65 B. dying before 65 or after 80
C. remaining alive after 80 D. dying between 65 and 80
76. What does “ageing” mean according to the passage?
A. It is a fact that people cannot live any longer.
B. It refers to a gradual loss of vigor and resistance.
C. It is usually a phenomenon of dying at an old age.
D. It is a period when people are easily attacked by illness.
77. What do the examples of the watch refer to in the last paragraph?
A. Normally people are quite familiar with the ageing process.
B. The law of thermodynamics functions in the ageing process.
C. All animals and other organisms undergo the ageing process.
D. Human's ageing process is different from that of mechanisms.
Section C
Directions: Read the passage carefully. Then answer the questions or complete the statements in the fewest possible words.
Proxemics (空间关系学) is the study of what governs how cloly one person stands to another. People who feel clo will be clo, though the actual distances will vary between cultures. For Americans we can detect four main categories of distance: intimate (亲密的), personal, social and public. Intimate ranges from direct contact to about 45 centimeters. This is for the clost relationships such as tho between husband and wif
e. Beyond this comes personal distance. This stands at between 45 and 80 centimeters. It is the most usual distance maintained for conversations between friends and relatives. Social distance covers people who work together or are meeting at social gatherings. Distances here tend to be kept between 1.30 to 2 meters. Beyond this comes public distance, such as that between a lecturer and his audience.
All cultures draw lines between what is an appropriate and what is an inappropriate social distance for different types of relationship. They differ, however, in where they draw the lines. Look at an international reception with reprentatives from the US and Arabic countries talking and you will e the Americans pirouetting (快速旋转) backwards around the hall pursued by their Arab partners. The Americans will be trying to keep the distance between themlves and their partners which they have grown ud to regarding as “normal”. They probably will not even notice themlves trying to adjust the distance between themlves and their partners, though they may have vague feeling that their Arab neighbors are being a bit “pushy”. The Arab, on the other hand, coming from a culture where much clor distance is the pattern, may be feeling that the Americans are
being “stand-offish”. Finding themlves happier standing clo to and even touching tho they are in conversation with they will persistently pursue the Americans round the room trying to clo the distance between them.
