I’m afraid to grow old—we’re all afraid. In fact, the fear of growing old is so great that every aged person is an insult and a threat to the society. They remind us of our own death, that our body won’t always remain smooth and responsive, but will someday betray(背叛) us by aging. The ideal way to age would be to grow slowly invisible, gradually disappearing, without causing worry or discomfort to the young. In some ways that does happen. Sitting in a small park across from a nursing home one day, I noticed that the young mothers and their children gathered on one side, and the old people from the home on the other.
Whenever a youngster would run over to the “wrong” side, chasing a ball or just trying to cover all the available space, the old people would lean forward and smile. But before any communication could be established, the mother would come over, murmuring embarrassed apologies, and take her child back to the “young” side.
Now, it seemed to me that the children didn’t feel any particular fear and the old people didn’t seem to be threatened by the children. The division of space was drawn by the mothers. And the mothers never looked at the old people who lined the other side of the park. These well-dressed young women had a way of sliding their eyes over, around, through the old people; they never looked at them directly. The old people may as well have been invisible; they offended the aesthetic eye of the mothers.
My early experiences were somewhat different; since I grew up in a small town, my children had more of a nineteenth-century flavor. I knew a lot of old people, and considered some of them friends.
【小題1】People are afraid of growing old because it is usually associated with ______.

A．insult B．threat C．death D．betrayal 
【小題2】In the author’s opinion, it is a perfect way to ______.
A．grow old slowly and then die unnoticed 
B．grow old suddenly and then die 
C．shut oneself up from others when growing old 
D．remain young all one’s life and then die suddenly 
【小題3】It can be inferred that young mothers would try to keep their children away from the old because ______.
A．they feared their children might hurt the old 
B．they didn’t like their children to take up the space belonging to the old 
C．they felt it was wrong to play balls near where the old stayed 
D．they didn’t want their children to have anything to do with the old 
【小題4】The author believes the division between the old and the young is _____.
A．made by people B．understandable 
C．formed naturally D．traditional 
【小題5】From the passage, we learn that the author ______.
A．used to have the same experience as the young have today 
B．has never been afraid of getting old 
C．was quite free to know and befriend old people in his childhood 
D．both B and C 


【小題1】C
【小題2】A
【小題3】D
【小題4】A
【小題5】C 

解析試題分析：文章介紹了人們都害怕變老，因?yàn)槔夏旰退劳鲇嘘P(guān)，為此，很多年輕的媽媽不愿意讓自己的孩子和老人有關(guān)系，而作者認(rèn)為老年和青年的區(qū)別是認(rèn)為造成的。
【小題1】細(xì)節(jié)題：從文章第一段的句子：They remind us of our own death, that our body won’t always remain smooth and responsive, but will someday betray(背叛) us by aging.可知人們害怕變老，因?yàn)檫@和死亡有關(guān)，選C
【小題2】細(xì)節(jié)題：從文章第一段的句子：The ideal way to age would be to grow slowly invisible, gradually disappearing, without causing worry or discomfort to the young.可知在作者看來(lái)一個(gè)完美的方式是慢慢變老，在不經(jīng)意中死去，選A
【小題3】細(xì)節(jié)題：從文章第三段的句子：The division of space was drawn by the mothers. And the mothers never looked at the old people who lined the other side of the park. These well-dressed young women had a way of sliding their eyes over, around, through the old people; they never looked at them directly可知年輕媽媽會(huì)讓孩子遠(yuǎn)離老人，因?yàn)樗齻儾幌胱尯⒆雍屠先擞腥魏侮P(guān)系，選D
【小題4】細(xì)節(jié)題：從文章第三段的句子：The division of space was drawn by the mothers.可知老年和青年的區(qū)別是由人造成的，選A
【小題5】細(xì)節(jié)題：從文章最后一段的句子：I knew a lot of old people, and considered some of them friends.
可知作者在年輕的時(shí)候，自由的了解老人和老人交朋友。選C 
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