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A．excess
B．excursion
C．access
D．recreation
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In 2007, there were approximately 38 000 assisted living facilities nationwide, serving about 975000 residents. The overwhelming majority of assisted living residents in the United States are female, according to the National Center for Assisted Living. One of the most common types of facilities that provide assisted living are called continuing care retirement communities, which offer a stepwise approach to care, says Kerry Peck, an elder law attorney based in Chicago. "The concept is you age in place," meaning you never have to leave the grounds for housing, he says, "You buy an apartment or cottage, and then as your health declines, the facility agrees to provide continuing care. Some of the most successful centers have independent living, then assisted living, then a nursing home for acute care. "
But much like deciding whether a nursing home is necessary, the decision to move into an assisted living facility is not an easy one. So what factors should you consider when looking for a place to move to？ Mainly, you should think about what activities you or your loved one need help with. People residing in assisted living facilities may need assistance with any number of daily activities, such as bathing, dressing, using the bathroom, cooking or eating. About 87 percent of residents need help preparing meals, for example, and 81 percent need help with managing or taking their medications, reports the NCAL. Most residents come from living in private homes or apartments; fewer come from living with adult children or other family members, from nursing home facilities, retirement or independent living communities, or another assisted living or group home.
For some people, however, assisted living may not be an option, mostly for financial reasons. Assisted living facilities cost an average of $ 34 000 annually in 2009, compared to about $ 74 000 per year for a nursing home, according to research published in January in Health Affairs. How this expense is paid varies. Residents can buy into a facility by paying a large, upfront sum of money, followed by smaller monthly assessment fees. Or if the resident opts for a facility where he can rent instead, he would pay monthly for the cost of housing and care. The facilities are also mostly located in areas where home values are higher and people nearby have higher incomes.
From the first paragraph, we learn that ______.
A．elderly people living in assisted living facilities have to be accompanied all the time
B．fluctuation of economy can have no much effect on the construction of assisted living facilities
C．assisted living facilities have been always increasing rapidly
D．assisted living facilities have become more and more popular in the past 20 years
Instead, 30 months later, she died. Not because she was old. But because aides at her new home, Loretto Utica Center, one of the modern, hotel-style. facilities that have sprouted across the country over the past decade, mistakenly gave her another resident's prescription medication. That error led to her death, state inspectors concluded.
Neither the state nor Loretto told her nephew about the cause of death. Critelli, thinking his aunt had been properly cared for, only learned of the finding years later from USA TODAY. "When they find something blatant like that, you'd think they'd tell the family", the shaken nephew told a reporter after a long pause.
A USA TODAY investigation shows that Rinaldi's death represents the tragic extreme in a pattern of mistakes and violations that lead to scores of injuries and occasional deaths among the estimated 1 million elderly residents of assisted living facilities. The centers are the state regulated, largely private-pay residences that help seniors with medication and other activities of daily life.
In a wide ranging analysis, USA TODAY reviewed two years of inspection records within 2000-02 for more than 5,300 assisted living facilities in seven states: Alabama, Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Indiana, New York and Texas. The precise time period varied slightly from state to state. The analysis covered a broad range—from mom-and-pop facilities with just a few residents to corporate run centers with scores of beds and many levels of care. It is the first time such data have been gathered and analyzed across so many states. The review included less-detailed data from five other states and focused on broad quality-of-care categories to compensate for variations in regulations from state to state.
As affluent and middle-class Americans cope with the infirmities of age, many turn to assisted living as an alternative to a nursing home industry that has been periodically plagued by abuse or neglect scandals. Even though assisted living facilities generally don't provide 24-hour skilled medical care, they increasingly serve seniors who only a decade ago might have been in nursing homes.
The first paragraph implies that
A．life in the nursing homes is largely regulated by caregivers.
B．old people are very much unsatisfied with life cared by a home health aide.
C．Rinaldi knew better than to live in an efficiency unit with caregivers.
D．the nation's long-term care options for the elderly are limited.
For many years, Hawaiian customs were looked down on or【25】. Now there is new pride in the old ways. Children are learning the【26】language and the traditional songs and dances. At the University of Hawaii there is a great deal of interest in the history of the islands and the culture of the【27】.
Visitors to the islands【28】to see the island paradise as it【29】to be. Large numbers of tourists from the Mainland【30】in Hawaii daily. Signs of modem tourism are【31】. Honolulu and its suburbs, a quiet area of about 250,000 thirty years【32】, is now a crowded area of 800,000 residents and【33】.
As you drive around the island of Oahu, you can find some of the beaches are closed【34】the public, and more and more tourist resorts are being built in areas that were unspoiled. Hawaiians【35】about what will happen to the old way of life.
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A．local
B．original
C．folk
D．migratory
These proportions vary somewhat from one area of the nation to another. In all areas, however, families are the fastest-growing sector of the homeless population, and in the Northeast they are by far the largest sector already. In Massachusetts, three-fourths of the homeless now are families with children; in certain parts of Massachusetts—Attleboro and Northampton, for example—the proportion reaches 90 percent. Two thirds of the homeless children studied recently in Boston were less than five years old.
Of the estimated two to three million homeless people nationwide, about 500,000 are dependent children, according to Robert Hayes, counsel to the National Coalition for the homeless. Including their parents, at least 750,000 homeless people in America are family members.
What is to be made, then, of the supposition that the homeless are primarily the former residents of mental hospitals, persons who were carelessly released during the 1970s？ Many of them are, to be sure. Among the older men and women in the streets and shelters, as many as one-third (some believe as many as one-half) may be chronically disturbed, and a number of these people left mental hospitals during the 1970s. But in a city like New York, where nearly half the homeless are small children with an average of six, to operate on the basis of such a supposition makes no sense. Their parents, with an average age of twenty-seven, are not likely to have been hospitalized in the 1970s, either.
According to the statistics, among the homeless in New York there were ______.
A．more people in a families than single persons
B．about six thousand families
C．3 children in a family
D．more families with two parents than one
Travel around Japan today, and one sees foreign residents holding a wide ______ of jobs.
A．range
B．field
C．scale
D．area
The residents, ______ had been damaged by the flood, were given help by the Red Cross.
A．all their homes
B．all whose homes
C．all of whose homes
D．all of their homes
The residents, ______had been damaged by the flood, were given help by the Red Cross.
A．all their homes
B．all of whose homes
C．all whose homes
D．all of their homes
Part A
Directions: Read the following four texts. Answer the questions below each text by choosing A, B, C or D. (40 points)
In spite of "endless talk of difference", American society is an amazing machine for homogenizing people. This is "the democratizing uniformity of dress and discourse, and the casualness and absence of consumption "launched by the 19th-century department stores that offered ' vast arrays of goods in an elegant atmosphere'" Instead of intimate shops catering to a knowledgeable elite, these were stores "anyone could enter, regardless of class or background". This turned shopping into a public anti democratic act". The mass media, advertising and sports are other forces for homogenization.
Immigrants are quickly fitting into this common culture, which may not be altogether elevating but is hardly poisonous. Writing for the National Immigration Forum, Gregory-Rodriguez reports that today's immigration is neither at unprecedented level nor resistant to assimilation. In 1998 immigrants were 9.8 percent of population; in 1900, 13.6 percent. In the 10 years prior to 1990, 3.1 immigrants arrived for every 1,000 residents; in the 10 years prior to 1890, 9.2 for every 1,000. Now, consider three indices of assimilation—language, home ownership and intermarriage.
The 1990 Census revealed that "a majority of immigrants from each of the fifteen most common countries of origin spoke English 'well' or 'very well' after ten years of residence". The children of immigrants tend to be bilingual and proficient in English. "By the third generation, the original language is lost in the majority of immigrant families". Hence the description of America as a graveyard for language. By 1996 foreign born immigrants who had arrive before 1970 had a home ownership rate of 75.6 percent, higher than the 69.8 percent rate among native born Americans.
Foreign-born Asians and Hispanics "have higher rates of intermarriage than do U.S.-born whites and blacks". By the third generation, one third of Hispanic women are married to non-Hispanics, and 41 percent of Asian-American women are married to non-Asians.
Rodriguez notes that children in remote villages around world are fans of superstars like Arnold Schwarzenegger and Garth Brooks, yet some Americans fear that immigrant living within, the United States remain somehow immune to the nation's assimilative power.
Are there divisive issues and pockets of seething anger in America？ Indeed. It is big enough to have a bit of every thing. But particularly when viewed against America's turbulent past, today's social induces suggest a dark and deteriorating social environment.
The word "homogenizing" (Line 1, Paragraph 1) most probably means ______.
A．identifying
B．associating
C．assimilating
D．monopolizing
A．Denial.
B．Affirmative.
C．Partial affirmative.
D．No opinion.
