For an increasing number of students at American universities, old is suddenly in. The reason is obvious: The graying of America means jobs. Coupled with the aging of the baby-boom （生育高峰） generation, a long life span means that the nation’s elderly population is sure to increase greatly over the next 50 years. By 2050, 25 percent of all Americans will be older than 65, up from 14 percent in 1995.

The change brings big problems for government and society, of course. But it also creates career opportunities in medicine and health professions, and in law and business as well. “In addition to the doctors, we’re going to need more sociologists, biologists, urban planners and specialized lawyers,” says Professor Edward Schneider of the University of Southern California’s （USC） School of Gerontology （老年學(xué)）.

Lawyers can specialize in “Elder Law”, which covers everything from trusts and estates to  nursing-home abuse and age discrimination. Businessmen see huge opportunities in the elder market. “Any student who combines an expert knowledge in gerontology with an MBA or law degree will have a license to print money,” one professor says.

Margarine Santos is a 21-year-old senior at USC. She began college as a biology major but found she was “really bored with bacteria”. So she took a class in gerontology and discovered that she liked it. She says, “I did volunteer work in retirement homes and it was very satisfying.”

1．The best title for the passage should be _________.

A. The Graying of America                                B. Gerontology

C. Aging and Job Opportunities                          D. Elder Law

2．The underlined sentence in Paragraph 1 most probably means _________.

A. America has suddenly become a nation of old people

B. gerontology has suddenly become popular

C. more elderly professors are found on American campuses

D. American colleges have realized the need of admitting older students

3．With the aging of America, lawyers can benefit _________.

A. from building nursing homes for the elderly

B. from providing special services to the elderly

C. by enriching their professional knowledge

D. by winning the trust of the elderly

4．It can be seen from the passage that the increasing of America’s elderly population ________.

A. will bring good chances to people in many areas

B. will put an unbearable burden on society

C. may lead to nursing-home abuse and age discrimination

D. will create new fields of study in universities

閱讀下列各小題，根據(jù)括號內(nèi)的漢語提示，用句末括號內(nèi)的英語單詞完成句子。

1．He was arrested without knowing_______________（他犯什么罪而被指控）.（accuse）

2．In front of the Ninghui Building ____________________（是一個廣場）. （lie）

3．The car ____________________ （陷入泥濘） and we had to walk home. （stuck）

4．Today there are more opportunities for us ___________________________ （發(fā)揮我們在藝術(shù)上的潛能）. （potential）

5．________________________ （還有待觀察） whether some Taiwanese will abandon the “Taiwan Independence” theory. （remain）

6．When referring to the money, the official avoided ________________ （將人們的注意力集中在） on how to use it. （attention）

7．Nicolas listened to us and nodded, with __________________ （他的胳臂交叉著）. （cross）

8．When I returned, mother ______________________ （碰巧在做飯） in the kitchen. （happen）

9．Michael Jackson, the pop king _____________________________（據(jù)報道已去世） in Los Angeles on June 25, 2009. （report）

10．_________________________ （考慮到他的年齡），his work was done satisfactorily. （allow）

假如你叫李毅，現(xiàn)在上高二，你的叔叔現(xiàn)在美國工作。你覺得父母管得太嚴(yán)了，自己解決不了這個問題，于是發(fā)郵件給叔叔，希望他跟你父母談?wù)? 勸說他們改變教育方式。要點(diǎn)如下：

1．學(xué)習(xí)上要求太高，自己達(dá)不到他們的期望值，并且經(jīng)常拿自己和鄰居家孩子比, 讓自己很沮喪；

2．不準(zhǔn)看電視，上網(wǎng)；

3．不準(zhǔn)自己跟女生交朋友；

4．覺得跟父母有代溝, 不能很好地溝通

注意；1．字?jǐn)?shù):100左右；

2．電子郵件的開頭結(jié)尾已經(jīng)寫好,不計入總詞數(shù)；

3．參考詞匯：代溝—generation gap

Dear Uncle,

How are you these days? I’m writing to tell you my trouble with my parents.

______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Best wishes,

Yours,

Li Yi

—It’s worrying that they are doing things without training, isn’t it?

—________．

A．Exactly                   B．Great               C．All right                D．No wonder

The Amazon, ________ river with the greatest water flow, is in ________ South America．

A．the ; the                  B．a(chǎn) ; the              C．the ; /                   D．/ ; /

I think ________ best that you should do more exercise．

A．that         B．it          C．its           D．this

The president was on a tight ________ so he didn’t visit the Forbidden City entirely．

A．schedule                 B．plan                 C．budget               D．deadline

Measures must be taken now because time ________．

A．has been run out         B．runs out          C．is run out          D．is running out

It was ________ she had done ________ angered her husband．

A．that; what         B．which; that             C．what; which        D．what; that

Without enough evidence, the jury couldn’t find him ________ of the crime, so he was set free．

A．sceptical           B．a(chǎn)shamed          C．innocent            D．guilty