首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
A、Peaceful. B、Regretful. C、Ordinary. D、Satisfactory. D说话者在短文最后表达了自己对50年来生活的看法:most of my first fifty years have been golden ones
A、Peaceful. B、Regretful. C、Ordinary. D、Satisfactory. D说话者在短文最后表达了自己对50年来生活的看法:most of my first fifty years have been golden ones
admin
2013-07-30
62
问题
I recently turned fifty, which is young for a tree, midlife for an elephant, and ancient for a sportsman. Fifty is a nice number for the states in the US or for a national speed limit but it is not a number that I was prepared to have hung on me. Fifty is supposed to be my father’s age, but now I am stuck with this number and everything it means.
A few days ago, a friend tried to cheer me up by saying, "Fifty is what forty used to be." He had made an inspirational point. Am I over the hill? People keep telling me that the hill has been moved, and I keep telling them that the high-jump bar has dropped from the six feet I once easily cleared to the four feet that is impossible for me now.
"You are not getting older, you are getting better," says Dr. Joyce Brothers. This, however, is the kind of doctor who inspires a second opinion.
And so as I approach the day when I cannot even jump over the tennis net, I am moved to share some thoughts on aging with you. I am moved to show how aging feels for me physically and mentally. Getting older of course, is obviously a better change than the one that brings you eulogies. In fact, a poet named Robert Browning considered it the best change of all:
Grow old along with me!
The best is yet to be.
Whether or not Browning was right, most of my first fifty years have been golden ones, so I will settle for what is ahead being as good as what has gone by. I find myself moving toward what is ahead with a curious blend of both fighting and accepting my aging, hoping that the philosopher was right when he said, "Old is always fifteen years from now."
Questions 26 to 28 are based on the passage you have just heard.
26. What does the speaker seem to tell us in the beginning of the passage?
27. How does the speaker consider his fifty years of life?
28. What can we infer from the passage?
选项
A、Peaceful.
B、Regretful.
C、Ordinary.
D、Satisfactory.
答案
D
解析
说话者在短文最后表达了自己对50年来生活的看法:most of my first fifty years have been golden ones,显然说话者对过去的50年是很满意的,故答案为[D]。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/qQ97777K
0
大学英语六级
相关试题推荐
PartⅡReadingComprehension(SkimmingandScanning)Directions:Inthispart,youwillhave15minutestogooverthepassageq
HowBirdsFindWayHome?Theabilityofbirdstoreturntoafamiliarplacefromanydistanceisaremarkablefeatofnature
OnDecember25,2000,manypeopleacrossNorthAmericareceivedarareChristmastreatwhenthemoonpassedinfrontofthesun
A、Anallergytoanimals.B、Areactiontotoxicchemicals.C、Anallergytofood.D、Contactwithanoxiousplant.D细节题。男士反问女士Yout
A、Expensive.B、Muchlower.C、Everyonecouldachievescholarship.D、Students’parentsdon’thavetoberich.D男士没有提A、B、C所提到的内容,但说
Highereducationhasaresponsibilitytoprovideaworkforcewiththedesigncapabilityandhigh-leveltechnicaldesignskillst
Highereducationhasaresponsibilitytoprovideaworkforcewiththedesigncapabilityandhigh-leveltechnicaldesignskillst
I’mafraidthat’sit______(实际上,这场比赛我们已经输了).
A、Shedoesn’tknowhowtoswim.B、Thewaterwastoodeep.C、Thewaterwastoocold.D、Shedidn’thaveenoughtime.C
A、SouthAfrica.B、EasternRussia.C、India.D、Congo.C短文说,最早的已知钻石于几个世纪前在印度被发现。所以C正确。
随机试题
有“马头蛇尾瓦楞身”之称的药材是()。
X线照射到直接FPD上时,X线光子使非晶硒激发出
A.金匮肾气丸合五子衍宗丸B.十全大补汤C.右归丸D.柴胡疏肝散合五子衍宗丸E.左归丸肝郁气滞型男性不育症,治应首选
下列哪种嵌缝材料为热施工材料?[1999年第047题]
()isonestandardformofbareboatcharterpartyusedtoanygreatextentdesignedbyBIMCO.
对该案例特点不正确的描述是()。求助者心理行为问题的改善应归功于()。
下列哪一项不属于中央银行的负债()。
20世纪新中国在尖端科学技术领域取得了一系列重要的成就,主要表现在
Thecloserelationshipbetweenpoetryandmusicscarcelyneedstobeargued.Bothareauralmodeswhichemployrhythm,rime,and
A、IthasthestrongesteconomyinAfrica.B、ItisthemostfamouscountryinAfrica.C、IthasthemoststabledemocracyinAfric
最新回复
(
0
)