大学英语四级长篇阅读专项强化真题试卷9
长篇阅读
Finding the Right Home—and Contentment, Too
A)When your elderly relative needs to enter some sort of long-term care facility—a moment few parents or children approach without fear—what you would like is to have everything made clear.
B)Does assisted living really mark a great improvement over a nursing home, or has the industry simply hired better interior designers? Are nursing homes as bad as people fear, or is that an outmoded stereotype(固定看法)? Can doing one\’s homework really steer families to the best places? It is genuinely hard to know.
C)I am about to make things more complicated by suggesting that what kind of facility an older person lives in may matter less than we have assumed. And that the characteristics adult children look for when they begin the search are not necessarily the things that make a difference to the people who are going to move in. I am not talking about the quality of care, let me hastily add. Nobody flourishes in a gloomy environment with irresponsible staff and a poor safety record. But an accumulating body of research indicates that some distinctions between one type of elder care and another have little real bearing on how well residents do.
D)The most recent of these studies, published in The Journal of Applied Gerontology, surveyed 150 Connecticut residents of assisted living, nursing homes and smaller residential care homes(known in some states as board and care homes or adult care homes). Researchers from the University of Connecticut Health Center asked the residents a large number of questions about their quality of life, emotional well-being and social interaction, as well as about the quality of the facilities.
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1.Many people feel guilty when they cannot find a place other than a nursing home for their parents.
E
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2.Though it helps for children to investigate care facilities, involving their parents in the decisionmaking process may prove very important.
L
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3.It is really difficult to tell if assisted living is better than a nursing home.
B
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4.How a resident feels depends on an interaction between themselves and the care facility they live in.
H
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5.The author thinks her friend made a rational decision in choosing a more hospitable place over an apparently elegant assisted living home.
N
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6.The system Medicare developed to rate nursing home quality is of little help to finding a satisfactory place.
J
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7.At first the researchers of the most recent study found residents in assisted living facilities gave higher scores on social interaction.
F
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8.What kind of care facility old people live in may be less important than we think.
C
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9.The findings of the latest research were similar to an earlier multi-state study of assisted living.
I
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10.A resident’s satisfaction with a care facility has much to do with whether they had participated in the decision to move in and how long they had stayed there.
G
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