The older your parents get, the less stable t...

The older your parents get, the less stable they are on their feet, so you need to make sure that their home is as easy to walk around as possible. One of the most important rooms that needs to be accessible is the bathroom.1. In this article, we are going to give you　 some tips on how you can make your bathroom more accessible.

One of the best ways to make your bathroom more accessible is to fix some rails or handles.2. Rails　 can also　 be added near　 the　 shower and　 in　 other　 places in　 the　 bathroom to make the whole room a lot more accessible.

It is hard to predict how much your parents are going to be able to walk when they are older, so you need to make sure that you are thinking about the future. 3.　 If they need　　 to use a wheelchair then they will find that with small entrances, they won’t be able to get　 the wheelchair through.

4.　 This is because as they get older, their eyesight can start to worsen and so　　 they need a little more light to be able to see things. Think about fixing some overhead lighting as well as lights beside important things in the bathroom. This will help to prevent any sort of trips or falls and they will be able to feel a lot safer when they are using your bathroom in the future.

Are you planning on making your parents’ home a lot more accessible in order to prepare for the future?5.

A.Get advice from the experts.

B.This room can be very slippery.

C.Don’t ignore the lighting in their bathroom.

D.Keep reading if you want your parents to be more accessible.

E.Try out some of the tips that we have given you in this article.

F.This is why you need to think about making the doors in their home a lot wider.

G.These give them something to hold onto when your parents get up and down from the toilet.

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Are people less or more happy when they get older? A study in 2018 found that people generally become happier and experience less worry after age 50. In fact, it found that by the age of 85, people are happier with their life than they were at 18.

Arthur Stone in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science at Stony Brook University in New York led the study. His team found that levels of stress were the highest among adults between the ages of 22 and 25. 1.

Happiness was the highest among the youngest adults and those in their early 70's. But the people least likely to report feeling negative emotions were those in their 70’s and 80’s. The survey also found that men and women have similar emotional patterns as they grow older. 2.The researchers also considered possible influences like, having young children being unemployed or being single. Bu, they found that influences like these did not affect the levels of happiness and well-being related to age.

3. One theory is that, as people get older, they become more than thankful for what they have and have better control of their emotions. They also spend less time thinking about bad experiences.

4.In another study, people in their 80’s reported the fewest problems with the quality of their sleep. The original goal was to confirm the popular belief that aging is connected with increased sleep problems. 5.But except for that, people reported that they felt their sleep quality improved as they got older.

A. So why will happiness increase with age?

B. Researchers surveyed more than 150, 000 American adults.

C. At that time, the people were between the ages of 18 and 85.

D. Stress levels dropped sharply after people reached their 50's.

E Happiness is not the only thing that apparently improves with age.

F. The survey did find an increase during middle age, especially in women.

G. However, women at all ages reported more sadness, stress and worry than men.

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On the whole, frequently ______ in a wide variety of activities and older adults are less likely to feel depressed.

A.participate B.to participate C.participating D.participated

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Most of us would say that the older we get, the less we look forward to celebrating another birthday. For children, though, a birthday is that one occasion each year when they are the center of attention all day long.

It’s not surprising, then, that children’s birthday parties have turned into big business in America. Kids—or more likely their parents—often try to outdo one another in putting on the most extravagant birthday party. In the past, you might have hired a man with a horse to come by and give everyone horse rides. Today, you can hire an entire petting zoo’s or a truck filled with animals from abroad.

Barb Hill, a mother of two girls, doesn’t hold extravagant (奢侈的) parties, but she says she does feel pressure to come up with new ideas each year. Her daughter Fiona celebrated her most recent birthday, her eighth, at a sporting-goods store. The kids enjoyed the climbing wall, as well as the pizza and cupcakes. “They always want to do something that nobody else has done yet,” Barb says. You also have to decide how many guests to invite, and if you’re celebrating at a place other than home, that means figuring out how to transport everyone.

William Doherty, a professor at the University of Minnesota, recently started a project called Birthdays without Pressure. Its website (www. birthdayswithoutpressure.org) gives parents the resources to make kids’ birthday parties less stressful and more fun for all. “Our goal was to start a local and national conversation about what’s happened to birthday parties,” Doherty told me. “We’ve succeeded beyond our expectations—tens of thousands of parents are viewing our website, contacting us and taking our online quizzes.”

In the end, most parents would agree that the best parties are usually the ones where the kids have time to hang out and play with each other. After all, isn’t what being a kid is all about?

1. The purpose of this passage is to tell us_________.

A.all the children look forward to celebrating their birthday

B.the children’s birthday parties have turned into big business in America

C.parents would like to make children’s birthday parties less stressful and more fun for all

D.parents don’t know how to hold children’s birthday parties

2. Which of the following sentences is TRUE ______.

A.The girl didn’t enjoy the party held by her mother.

B.The project called Birthdays without Pressure is popular with parents.

C.Children look forward to their birthday parties because they like extravagant parties.

D.Parents feel like hiring an entire petting zoo for their children.

3. The aim of the project called Birthdays without Pressure is to______.

A.attract parents to view the website

B.provide resources for making kids’ birthday parties

C.release parents’ stress of organizing children’s birthday parties

D.hold conversation about what’s happened to birthday parties

4. The best title for this passage may probably be ______.

A project called Birthdays without Pressure

B.Children enjoy their birthday parties

C.  How to hold children’s birthday parties

D.  How children feel about their birthday parties

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The next time you get caught jumping on your bed you can tell your parents with a straight face that you are not playing, simply getting ready got a promising career in “Mattress Jumping”. Believe it or not, there are some people who actually get paid to do that! According to Reuben Reynoso, a professional mattress tester at San Francisco’s McRoskey Mattress Factory that still makes every mattress by hand, it is real work and needs some training. For a start, it’s not all about jumping to new heights or doing tricks like professional athletes, but rather about feeling each area of the mattress carefully to detect the filling. In order to do it right, every bit of the mattress has to be tested slowly and deliberately.

Over the years, Reynoso has figured out the perfect routine. He begins by placing a protective mat over the mattress so that it doesn’t get dirty or absorb the smell from his feet. Then begins the fun---he steps to the middle of an edge and then takes five steps back and five steps forward. In this way, he slowly but surely, covers the entire surface. The key according to him is to find the perfect number of jumps---Too many and he will end up destroying the mattress completely. Too few? And it will not fit into the giant machine for that final sewing! Who knew a job that sounds so simple could have so many skills!

While Reuben will not reveal how he got into this profession, he will admit that it is more fun than being a carpenter, roofer, construction worker and railroad engineer---all jobs he has tried previous to finding his true profession!

1.We learn from the text that the McRoskey Mattress Factory ______.

A. is the world’s oldest mattress factory

B. make mattresses for sports

C. produces mattresses by hand

D. hires athletes as mattress testers

2.The protective mat is used to ______.

A. prevent the tester getting hurt

B. keep the mattress as clean as possible

C. protect the mattress from being destroyed

D. make the mattress fit into the sewing machine

3.According to Reynoso, the most important thing in his work is ______.

A. the timing of his jumps

B. the height of his jumps

C. the number of his jumps

D. the frequency of his jumps

4.We can learn from the text that Reynoso ______.

A. has been injured several times in his work

B. liked mattress jumping in his childhood

C. didn’t choose mattress testing as his first job

D. dreamt about becoming a jumping athlete

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Children are getting so fat that they may be the first generation to die before their parents, an expert says.

Today's young people will be affected by potential (潜在的) killers such as heart disease because of their weight. Fatty fast－food diets combined with the lifestyles with televisions and computers could mean kids will die young, says Professor Andrew Prentice, from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. At the same time, the shape of the human body is going through a great change because adults are getting so fat.

Here in Britain, the latest research shows that the average waist size for a man is 36～38 inches and may be 42～44 inches by 2032.This compares with only 32.6 inches in 1972. Women's waists have grown from an average of 22 inches in the 1920s to 24 inches in the 1950s and 30 inches now. One of the major reasons why children now are at greater risk is that we are getting fatter younger. In the UK alone, more than one million under 16 years old are thought

to be overweight or fat—double the number in the 1980s. One in ten of four－year－olds are also medically said to be obese.

The obesity which started in the US, has now spread to Europe, Australia, Central America and the Middle East. Many nations now record more than 20 percent of their population as obese and well over half of the population as overweight.

Professor Prentice says the change in our shape has been caused by high－energy foods combined with a dramatic (急剧的) drop in the energy we use as a result of technology developments.

He is not alone in his concern. Only last week one medical magazine revealed how obesity was fuelling a rise in cancer cases. Obesity also increases the risk factor for heart disease and so on. An averagely obese person's lifespan (寿命) is shortened by around nine years while a seriously obese person by much more.

Professor Prentice says,

“So_will_parents_live_longer_than_their_children,_as_an_American_obesity_expert_said_recently？”

“The answer is yes—and no.” Yes, when most children become obese. No, because this is now becoming an alarmingly serious problem in the US. “Such children will have a greatly reduced quality of life on both body and mind.”

So say “No” to sandwiches and hamburgers.

1.From the second paragraph, we know that ________.

2.According to Professor Prentice, people become fatter because ________.

3.For the underlined question, the answer “no” suggests ________.

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Your parents have a deep affection for you. Even if they are 　 　　 , they can still keep out the wind and rain for you.

A. as cool as cucumbers　　 B. as strong as horses

C. as poor as church mice　　 D. as busy as bees

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Tears come out of my eyes when I talk to my parents on the phone．What are they doing when I call them? This is w__________1. I want to know most．I promise my mother to study hard in the university because I am her h___________2.．I just want her to promise me that she can take care of h______3.and my dad because they are just l　 _____4. the blood in my body.

In my family, everyone is equal．We are very happy to have meals together．Mum says that the h_________5.time for Dad and her is to see my sister and me come back home．We play cards in the room, watch TV and do anything we like, with Dad and Mum p _______6.delicious food in the kitchen．I forget all the difficulties and unhappiness at that t ____7.．The o________ 8.thing I would like to do is to enjoy the time with my parents.

Sometimes, love doesn’t n_______9. many words．Love your parents as they love us．G__________10.them a call, telling them you love them and miss them.

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________ little chicks remain in the nest, they are completely dependent on their parents for food.

A.Even though B.As long as C.Until D.Unless

高三英语单项填空简单题查看答案及解析

Prices____ all the time and no one knows when they ________ stable.

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