选词填空：Contrary to popular belief, older people generally do not want to live with their children. Moreover, most adult children

Section A(2016年6月英语四级卷2真题及答案)

Directions: In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage.

Contrary to popular belief, older people generally do not want to live with their children. Moreover, most adult children _provide____(27)every bit as much care and support to their aging parents as was the case in the "good old days", and roost older people do not feel __abandoned___(28).

About 80% of people 65 years and older have living children, and about 90% of them have _frequent____(29)contact with their children. About 75% of elderly parents who don't go to nursing homes live within 30 minutes of at least one of their children.

However, __merely___(30)having contact with children does not guarantee happiness in old age. In fact, some research has found that people who are most involved with their families have the lowest spirits. This research may be __ biased___(31), however, as ill health often makes older people more _dependent____(32)and thereby increases contact with family members. So it is more likely that poor health, not just family involvement, __dampens___(33)spirits.

Increasingly, researchers have begun to look at the quality of relationships, rather than at the frequency of contact, between the elderly and their children. If parents and children share interests and values and agree on childrearing practices and religious ___commitment __(34)they are likely to enjoy each other's company. Disagreements on such matters can ___understandably__(35)cause problems. If parents are angered by their daughter's divorce, dislike her new husband, and disapprove of how she is raising their grandchildren, ___chances _(36)are that they are not going to enjoy her visits.

A.abandoned

B.advanced 年老的;先进的

C.biased 有偏见的

D.chances 机会;偶然

E.commitment 承诺，保证

F.dampens 潮湿;丧气

G.dependent 依赖人的

H.distant 遥远的，冷漠的

I.frequent 频繁的

J.fulfillment 履行，实行

K.grant 同意

L.merely 仅仅

M.provide 提供

N.understandably 可理解地

O.unrealistically 不切实际地