英语四级阅读考试训练(五)

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　　文中人物的观点或态度
　　解题技巧：
+ R5 v. C' y" {# m/ E3 ~　　文章中涉及的个人或组织的态度也是一个常考点。解答这类题目时，应该用这些个人的姓名或组织的名称作为线索词急性定位，找到原文中相应的段落或句子，再根据文中的用词和句式进行判断
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　　…Ofen, older parents hear the ticking of another kind of biological clock. Therapists who work with middle-aged and aged parents say fears about aging are nothing to laugh at. “ They worry they’ll be mistaken for grandparents, or that they’ll need help getting up out of those little chairs in nursery school,” says Joann Galst, a New York psychologist. But at the core of those little fears there is often a muchi bigger one: “that they won’t be alive enough to support and protect their child,” she says….
7 k( c4 P  g- A! {　　Q: What’s the biggest fear of older parents according to New York psychologist Joann Galst?
　　A . Being laughed at by other people.
; e3 i* G  T. W2 ~! X# O& ^　　B. Slowing down of their paces of life.
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& K! m- R" ~6 G: A0 f! e　　D. Approaching of death
　　【解析】
0 b! f2 ^- n& I0 C6 \　　选D。根据题干中New York psychologist Joann Galst回到原文迅速定位，题干中的biggest对应原文中的core和muchi bigger one。答案应在冒号后面的引文部分：“担心不能活到足够大的年岁一直抚养和保护孩子”。所以选D，death对应原文中的won’t be alive.