Question

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阅读下面短文，并做后面的题目。从四个选项中，选出能回答所提问题或完成所给句子的最佳答案。

Some of the older people in the United States face a number of serious problems. For one thing, more than ten per cent of all “senior citizens” in the United States are extremely poor. As a matter of fact, recent reports suggest that about one-seventh of the people over the age of sixty-five live below the poverty level. Aged people also have more health problems than younger people. A third area for concern comes from the fart that the public transportation has not been designed with old people in mind; their activities are often limited to whatever is within walking distance. And finally, there is the separation from family, which causes loneliness. Many older people live by themselves (this is particularly true of widows(寡妇) and divorced(离婚的) women . And then there are the “forgotten five percent”, the older people who have been sent to “old age homes” (sometimes called “nursing homes”) by families who either cannot or will not take care of them.

1．The purpose of writing this passage is probably ________.

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A．to let its readers know the problems of old people

B．to show that old people in the U. S. are not happy

C．to show that no one really cares for old people in the U.S.

D．to make known the wisdom of the author of finding the problems

2．What percentage of the Americans above the age of 65 live in poverty?

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A．About one per cent.

B．About five per cent.

C．About fourteen per cent.

D．About thirty per cent.

3．According to the passage, the designers of the American public transportation ________.

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A．did not think of the special needs of old people

B．paid much attention to the old people

C．wanted to separate old people from others

D．asked old people not to walk too far

Answer 1

答案：A;C;A