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My general principle in college and throughout my professional career has been to follow my interests. In college I was a psychology major. One of my advisors (1) ______ (advised, hoped, said, suggested) I change my major to English, (2) ______ (practically, preferably, primarily, probably) because I wanted to become a high school teacher. She (3) ______ (advised, asked, suggested, told) me I’d have much difficulty finding a job teaching high school psychology, (4) ______ (but, because, however, therefore) that English teachers were in demand. Well, I listened politely, but I (5) ______ (lingered, remained, persisted, stuck) in psychology because it was my passion. Sure enough, my first high school position (6) (consisted, contained, included, involved) of teaching English! After one year I was also teaching psychology -- and (7) ______ (eventually, ultimately, in the long run, sooner or later) I left high school teaching and moved on to community college.
I have never had any (8) ______ (disappointments, misgivings, regrets, sorrows) about focusing my energy in areas of keen interest. When I advise college students about (9) ______ (continuing, following, pursuing, searching) graduate study and a career path, I typically encourage them to discover (10) ______ (anything, something, what, whatever) excites them and make a decision based on this rather than focus on (11) ______ (how, what, where, which) they will make money or what is in fashion currently.
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(12) ______ (Although, As, Because, If) I work very hard, I love what I do and (13) ______ (derive, find, obtain, seek) meaning from my work. I’ve found that pursuing the path of my passions has been both productive and practical. In fact, I frequently ask myself if I am enjoying a given task. If I become aware that a project is (14) ______ (lacking, leaking, licking, locking) in fun or meaning, I think seriously about (15) ______ (considering, dropping, keeping, taking) it. Life is way too short to pursue meaningless activities. (Jerry Corey)
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2. Choose the best word or phrase in brackets for each blank.
When I was chosen to play Hans Andersen in the movie and went to Denmark to learn as much about him as I could, I found out two people whose grandparents had been Andersen’s neighbors that The Ugly Duckling was really Hans’ story. (1) ______ (This, What, Thus, Which) made me feel a great kinship for him and (2) ______ (contributed, gave, provided, supplied) his story special meaning.
In many ways his life was (3) ______ (as, just, like, such) a fairy tale. Out of the poverty of his boyhood, out of years of (4) ______ (happiness, hardship, struggle, success), loneliness, and ridicule he came to be one of the (5) ______ (accepted, envied, honored, welcomed) men of his time. He was a friend of all the great people of his (6) ______ (day, period, year, century) and a welcome guest in the palaces of princes and kings. Yet the (7) ______ (good, gold, soundness, purity) of his heart, his simplicity, his faith in God and man, (8) ______ (even, ever, forever, never) changed. Throughout his life he saw the world with the clear and (9) ______ (critical, innocent, intelligent, sharp) eyes of childhood. He understood children, and they loved to sit (10) ______ (around, at, near, on) his feet while he wove a spell of enchantment and wonder.
(11) ______ (And, Also, So, Yet) he was a man, not a child. He had (12) ______ (collected, known, seen, studied) and learned many things that became (13) ______ (experience, heart, part, theme) of his stories. He himself said, “I tell the story for
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young ones, (14) ______ (remember, remembering, to remember, to be remembering) all the time that father and mother are listening and we must give them (15) ______ (anything, everything, nothing, something) to think about too.” (Danny Kaye)
3. Choose the best word or phrase in brackets for each blank.
Internet auctions(拍卖) are held electronically on Internet Web sites. An auction (1) ______ (bidder, owner, guest, host) such an eBay (电子港湾，网上交易市场的创造者) provides the Web space and individuals “rent” a (2) ______ (fragment, piece, quantity, slice) of that space to auction their merchandise.
For example, suppose you want to buy a (3) ______ (few, rare, superior, unfamiliar) Star Wars poster. You find it (4) ______ (listing, listed, to list, to be listing) on eBay at a starting price of only $1. Wow! (5) ______ (what, when, which, how) a bargain! You’ve seen the same the same poster sell for (6) ______ (less than, no less than, no more than, more than) $50. However, the starting price is (7) ______ (hardly, just, right, thus) the beginning of the auction. Once the poster is online, it (8) ______ (be seen, is seen, is being seen, ought to be seen) by millions of eBay shoppers. Since you’ve been looking for the poster, you open the bidding (拍卖时的出价) by placing a bid for $1. (9) ______ (Another, Any, Other, Every). Star Wars collector sees the poster, wants it, and bids $2. A third collector sees the poster and really wants it. He bids $10. Now you discover that you’ve been outbid, so you (10) ______ (lift, uplift, raise, rise) your bid to $12. Soon you have bidding war (11) ______ (breaking out, carrying through, going on, keeping up)! The bidding
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continues for the duration of the auction — usually seven days. (12) ______ (At, Before, By, In) the last hour the bids quickly go from $18 to $24 to $33 to $39. Just before time runs (13) ______ (away, down, off, out) you make a final bid of $48! The auction ends and you’ve won! You are the highest bidder. Now you and the seller (14) ______ (have to, must, ought to, would) contact each other by e-mail, arrange payment and shipping term, and (15) ______ (accomplish, conclude, end, finish) the transaction.
Once the seller receives payment, she ships the merchandise to the buyer and the transaction is completed. eBay sends the seller a bill by e-mail for hosing the auction. There are no additional fees collected by eBay from the buyer.
4. Choose the best word or phrase for each blank from the four supplied in brackets.
Whether you are a CEO, engineer, firefighter, teacher, or sales professional, the (1) ______ (ability, capacity, chance, opportunity) to persuade individuals to believe you, (2) ______ (otherwise, still, then, yet) act on what you are saying, is critical to your success and central to your economic well-being. No matter (3) ______ (how, when, who, whoever) you are, you have something to sell. Frequently, in the course of your career you will be (4) ______ (called upon, put upon, seized on, urged on) to sell either yourself or your ideas. (5) ______ (Either, Neither, Weather, Whether) you are selling yourself in an interview for a job, or selling a product, service, philosophy, or idea—everybody sells (6) ______ (anything, everything, nothing, something)!
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Perhaps engineers constitute (7) ______ (less, more, the least, the most) sales and promotion—oriented group I know. Engineers like to (8) ______ (live on, rely on, resort to, stick to) facts, number, and technology to lead people (9) ______ (backward, forward, sideward, toward) making the right decisions. Yet they still (10) ______ (have to, ought to, must, should) sell. If you need to convince a board of directors, company president, or your supervisor why a project needs more funding, additional support, or even more time, you have a (11) ______ (sale, saleable, sales, selling) job ahead of you.
The most common (12) ______ (form, pattern, shape, way) of selling today may be simply finding a job. Even firefighters have to (13) ______ (cut through, go through, enroll in, participate in) a series of in-depth interviews in which they are probed on why they should be selected over hundreds of other candidates (14) ______ (applied, applying, to apply, having applied) for the same position. These men and women have to explain why they would be assets to the department. (15) ______ (What, Whatever, Which, Whichever) position you are applying for, you have to know how to sell yourself and your ideas. Just getting in the door for an interview frequently requires you to justify why people should bother talking to you.
5. Choose the best word or phrase for each blank from the four supplied in brackets.
The lawyer is a person with a very special knowledge of the law—both civil and criminal. (1) ______ (According to, Because of, Regardless of, Thanks for) this
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knowledge the lawyer can help plan their (2) ______ (affairs, family, trial, situation) in accordance with the law. In other (3) ______ (expressions, phrases, terms, words) he or she helps people get out of trouble as well as helping those who are (4) ______ (already, ever, still, yet) in trouble. He/She helps to ensure freedom of (5) ______ (belief, idea, opinion, thought) and action and to bring about peace (6) ______ (about, among, between, of) person and person, and person and government. He/She prepares (7) ______ (agreements, documents, instruments, statements) and contracts by which one person makes sure that another person will carry (8) ______ (forward, on, out, through) his promises. He/She prepares wills and documents (9) ______ (changing, moving, shifting, transferring) property. He/She gives advice to people on domestic and family (10) ______ (associations, connection, links, relationships) and on business problems.
Most of a lawyer’s work, is carried on outside the courtroom, although the cases the (11) ______ (people, population, prosecution, public) hears or reads about are those (12) ______ (that, what, which, who) come to court. In court, the lawyer (13) ______ (describes, examines, introduces, presents) or defends claimed violations of right, or disputes (14) ______ (arising, rising, rose, arises) out of differences as to what has happened or what is (15) ______ (fair, legal, permissible, right) and just. In a civil action the court hears claims between private persons about private matters, family matters, and negligence or accident cases. In criminal cases lawyers either prosecute or defend public wrongs against the community, state, or nation, such as murder, robbery, and other crimes or offenses.
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During the whole of a dark, cloudy day near the end of the year, I had been riding my horse along country roads with little life or beauty. When evening fell, I found myself (1) ______ (at, on, with, within) view of the House of Usher. I do not know (2) ______ (how, what, when, why) but my first sight of it made my heart (3) ______ (cheerful, heavy, light, sorrowful). I stopped my horse at the (4) ______ (edge, ledge, ridge, sledge) of the black and quiet lake that (5) ______ (lie, lying, laid, lay) beside the building. Looking down into the water I saw a reflection of the (6) ______ (brand new, new brand, dark old, old dark) house and the dying tress around it. There was (7) ______ (nothing, something, the figure of a man, the shape of a fish) in that reflection that bought fear to my heart, (8) ______ (even, if, though, while) I could not tell what it was.
I looked up at the house itself, (9) ______ (when, why, what, which) was made of stone. None of the walls (10) ______ (were falling, were fallen, fell, had fallen) but many stones appeared to be loose. There seemed to be a break (11) ______ (in front of, in the front, on front of, on the front of) the building, going down the wall from the top (12) ______ (as, before, when, until) it became lost in the dark waters of the lake.
I had come to visit a childhood friend, Roderick Usher. I had not seen him for many years, and I knew very little about him. But he had written me a little, (13) ______ (asking, calling, demanding, requiring) me to come. He was sick in body and in (14) ______ (emotion, heart, mind, thought) and he wanted to see me, his best
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and old friend. I could not refuse. But now, something (15) ______ (about, as to, concerning, in) the house frightened me. (Adapted from Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Fall of the House of Usher”)
7. Choose the best word or phrase for each blank from the four supplied in brackets.
Eye contact is important, because too little or too much eye contact may cause communication problems. It is important in relationships because it (1) ______ (assist, promoted, serves, tends) to show intimacy, attention, and influence. (2) ______ (As, As if, Like, Likewise）with facial expressions, there are no specific rules concerning eye behavior (3) ______ (but, except, now, so) that it is considered rude to (4) ______ (gaze, glance, look, stare) especially at strangers. It is, however, (5) ______ (common, general, ordinary, usual) for two strangers to walk toward each other, (6) ______ (do, have, make, pass) eye contact, smile and perhaps (7) ______ (even, nonetheless, still, yet) say “Hi!” The strangers may immediately look (8) ______ (above, away, off, sideways) and forget that they even had any contact. This (9) ______ (form, type, shape, way) of expression does not mean much: it is (10) ______ (absolutely, plainly, purely, simply) a way of acknowledging another person’s (11) ______ (appearance, attendance, existence, presence). In a conversation too little eye contact (12) ______ (may, need, must, should) be looked at negatively because it (13) ______ (conveys, holds, includes, transfers) lack of interest, inattention, or even mistrust. The relationship between mistrust and lack of eye contact is (14) ______ (discovered, hidden, implied, seen) directly in the expression, “never trust a person who can’t look you in (15) ______ (an, his,
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one’s, the) eye”.
8. Choose the best word or phrase for each blank from the four supplied in brackets.
Bernard James was a scientist. To be (1) ______ (accurate, correct, exact, precise) he was an ornithologist: he studied birds. Several years ago he was (2) ______ (arranging, commanding, leading, planning) an expedition through the forests of Brazil. The expedition was (3) ______ (searching, seeking, shooting, studying) for a rare type of silver-winged bird, which only lived in certain parts of the forests.
His group were exhausted. They (4) ______ (had been marching, had marched, marched, was marched) through very difficult country for several days, without seeing the bird once. Bernard looked up at the sky through the branches (5) ______ (about, beside, from, over) his head. The sun was sinking, and he decided that it was too late to (6) ______ (approach, arrive, rash, reach) the next village before nightfall, the group soon decided to find a clearing in the forest (7) ______ (then, there, where, wherein) they could make camp for the night. It took them longer than usual to fix the tents, because they were (8) ______ (all, anyway, each, somewhat) feeling so tired. Bernard had had a strange (9) ______ (awareness, idea, feeling, sense) all that day: it was impossible to explain why, but (10) ______ (after, since, though, when) they, marched through the forest he had felt that they were (11) ______ (to be, been, being, had been) followed. After setting up camp that evening, however, he was so exhausted that he (12)
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______ (almost, already, still, yet) forgot about it. No sooner had he finished eating (13) ______ (than, that, then, when) he fell asleep. In the middle of the night, a strange sound woke him up. It was (14) ______ (as, as if, alike, like) leaves moving in the wind — but here in the forest there was no wind. He sat (15) ______ (around, back, down, up) and listened more carefully. It was not leaves -- it was wings, thousands of birds’ wings moving in the night sky. Sliver wings, thousands of sliver wings!
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Mike took up the story. “ I got married when I was a young man of 22, but my wife was killed a year later in a car accident. I was completely (1) ______ (broken, damaged, destroyed, shattered). I put all my energies (2) ______ (for, into, on, with) my work and spent many years abroad with my firm. Then I came back to England to work at Head Office and (3) ______ (know, realized, saw, understood) how empty my life had become. I didn't (4) ______ (completely, exactly, just, quite) want work; I wanted a wife and children. I needed someone to make my house into a (5) ______ (family, home, paradise, shelter). I wasn't interested in young girls, but (6) ______ (how, what, when, whether) could I find a mature, (7) ______ (lovable, loving, lovely, lover) woman to share my life? I think my sister and brother-in-law (8) ______ (could, must, ought to, should) have guessed how I was feeling. They (9) ______ (arranged, introduced, recommended, suggested) me to a charming older couple one evening. After they'd. gone home I remarked how (10) ______ (well-combined, well-married, well-paired, well-suited) they seemed and my sister told me why --
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they'd met (11) ______ (at, by, from, through) a Marriage Bureau. ‘You should give it a try,' she said. So I did.”
Mike phoned a bureau the very next day and went for an interview the following week. He was given three names, including (12) ______ (one, none, this, that) of a schoolteacher. He wrote to her first because he thought a school-teacher would (13) ______ (definitely, hopefully, possibly, probably) like children. Within a month of their first meeting he (14) ______ (advised, proposed, requested, suggested) and they got engaged. The wedding took place a year later. “Speaking as a businessman” said Mike, “this is the best deal I've ever (15) ______ (conducted, made, produced, worked)!”
10. Choose the best word or phrase for each blank from the four supplied in brackets.
Most researchers agree that the loneliest people are between the ages of 18 and 25, so a group of psychologists decided to (1) ______ (observe, research, study, watch) a group of college freshmen. Then found that more than 50 percent of the freshmen were lonely at the beginning of the semester (2) ______ (as, because of, for, upon) a result of their new circumstances but had (3) ______ (adapted, adjusted, changed, transformed) after a few months. Thirteen percent were still lonely after seven months. (4) ______ (Thanks, Due, As, Driven) to shyness and fear, they felt very (5) ______ (ill, restless, uncomfortable, weak) meeting new people, even though they understood that their fear was not (6) ______ (conventional, national, rational, situational). The situationally lonely freshmen (7) ______ (bear, held,
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mastered, overcame) their loneliness by making new friends, but the chronically lonely (8) ______ (remained, retained, restrained, reversed) unhappy because they were afraid to do (9) ______ (it, so, such, that).
Psychologists are trying to find (10) ______ (drugs, means, remedies, ways) to help habitually lonely people (11) ______ (for, out of, owing to, with) two reasons. First of all, they are unhappy and (12) ______ (feasible, impossible, incapable, unable) to socialize. Secondly, researchers have found a (13) ______ (connection, distinction, gap, similarity) between chronic loneliness and serious illnesses such as heart disease. (14) ______ (As, If, Since, While) temporary and situational loneliness can be a (15) ______ (common, good, favorable, normal) healthy part of life, chronic loneliness can be a very sad, and sometimes dangerous condition.
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11. Choose the best word or phrase for each blank from the four supplied in brackets.
The amateur administrators who run international sporting events often complain that sportsmanship is a thing of the past, and they put the blame on the growth of professionalism.
They claim that when the modern Olympic Games began athletes felt that it was sufficient (1) ______ (award, honor, praise, reward) for them to compete. They are (2) ______ (amused, horrified, pleased, saddened) that some athletes today regard running as work and expect (3) ______ (being paid, paying, paid, to be paid) for what they do.
The truth is that (4) ______ (such, these, this, those) high ideals were always an aspiration and (5) ______ (ever, often, seldom, never) had much to do with reality. The Olympic Games of 1900 and 1904 were tied up with business, because they were organized as a (6) ______ (chief, primary, secondary, unimportant) attraction to international trade fairs.
The love of amateurism and the (7) ______ (belief, conclusion, idea, impression) that what is important is how you (8) ______ (act, behave, perform, play) on the field, not whether you win or (9) ______ (fail, gain, lose, succeed), comes from a time when the only people who played games (10) ______ (intelligently, masterly,
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seriously, skillfully) did not need to earn their living. (11) ______ (At that time, Even then, In those days, Even so) it was common for rich men and universities in some countries to subsidize “amateurs” by paying their bills or tuition fees.
Whatever the idealists may say, it is obvious that what (12) ______ (differs, matters, signifies, weighs) to the public is success. Even the organizers of the Olympic Games admit this. (13) ______ (Anybody, Any one, Who, Whoever) comes first wins a gold medal but (14) ______ (anyone, everyone, each one, someone) who comes fourth gets nothing. What the administrators sometimes ignore is that anyone who wants to become an Olympic champion must do (15) ______ (at, in, with, without) spare time and possibly break off his studies. It is not surprising that athletes want some tangible reward.
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Historically, a great variety of commodities has served at one time or another as a medium of exchanges: cattle, tobacco, olive oil, beer or wines, copper, iron, gold, silver, rings, diamonds, and cigarettes.
(1) ______ (Each, Every, Everyone, Some) of the above has some advantages and disadvantages. Cattle are not (2) ______ (breakable, convertible, divisible, separable) into small change. Beer does not improve with (3) ______ (keeping, maintaining, preserving, protecting) although wine may.
By the nineteenth century, commodity money was almost exclusively (4) ______ (confined, limited, restrained, restricted) to metals. Silver has luster but tarnishes. Gold’s high specific gravity makes (5) ______ (detection, discovery, exposure, observation) of counterfeiting easy. But through most of history, gold’s scarcity value has been so great per ounce (6) ______ (as, in order, so, so as) to require inordinately minute coins for (7) ______ (average, common, ordinary, regular) purchases.
Most kinds of money tended once to be (8) ______ (among, by, of, with) some value or use for their own sake. Thus, gold has been used in teeth and jewelry. But the intrinsic usefulness of money is now the least important thing about it.
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The age of commodity money gave (9) ______ (birth, in, up, way) to the age of paper money. The essence of money is now laid bare. Money, as money (10) ______ (better, other, rather, worse) than as a commodity, is wanted (11) ______ (neither, nor, never, not) for its own sake but for the things it will buy. We do not wish to use up money (12) ______ (directly, immediately, presently, straightaway) – rather we use it by getting rid of it. (13) ______ (But, Even, Still, Yet) when we choose to use it by keeping it, its value comes from the fact that we can spend it (14) ______ (after, lately, latter, later on).
Money is an artificial social convention. If for any reason a substance begins to be used as money, people will begin to value it. A (15) ______ (collector, dealer, nonsmoker, smoker) will value cigarettes if they are money in a prisoner of war camp.
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13. Choose the best word or phrase for each blank from the four supplied in brackets.
(This story is based on an actual incident.)
It was pitch dark when hospital patient Paul Williams woke up and groped around for his blanket. He had (1) ______ (ever, never, often, seldom) felt so cold in his life. When he touched his body, he was (2) ______ (bewildered, puzzled, irritated, shocked) to find that he was naked. For a moment, he (3) ______ (asked, doubted, suspected, wondered) if he had died and passed over to some mysterious world. He (4) ______ (developed, dismissed, gained, removed) the idea and felt around in the darkness. He was on a shelf, not in a bed. Cautiously, Williams (5) ______ (got, jumped, sat, stood) up and put his feet down to find (6) ______ (his shoes, his cap, the floor, the ground). When he found it, he slid down off the shelf. As he did so, he touched somebody’s head. It was as cold as ice. Then the grim (7) ______ (fact, reality, situation, truth) flashed into his mind; he was in a mortuary(太平间) with dead bodies. Williams pinched himself and was relieved when it (8) ______ (ached, hurt, pained, stung). After he found the door of the mortuary, he hammered on it with his fists and shouted for help. It was locked on the (9) ______ (inside, outside, one side, the other side). Panic-stricken at the thought that he would soon (10) ______ (frighten, freeze, starve, worry) to death, Williams screamed and shouted. In an adjacent(隔壁的) room, a nurse heard strange noises and thought that the mortuary might be haunted. She ran to fetch a doctor. He guessed (11) ______ (it,
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that, what, whatever) had happened, and opened the door. When Williams (12) ______ (strode, strolled, sailed, staggered) out, the nurse fainted and fell to the floor. The doctor summoned (13) ______ (assistance, assistant, attendance, attendant) and led Williams back to his bed in the hospital. Then he started an (14) ______ (interview, interrogation, investigation, intervention). He discovered that Williams had gone into a coma(昏迷) at about the same time as a patient in the next bed had died. Two hospital attendants had (15) ______ (confused, disarranged, mixed, mistaken) the beds and had taken the wrong body to the mortuary.
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14. Choose the best word or phrase for each blank from the four supplied in brackets.
Because Americans are living longer than ever, more psychologists and social workers have begun to study caregiving to improve care of the elderly. They have found that all caregivers share a (1) ______ (common, general, ordinary, widespread) characteristic: they all believe that they are the best people (2) ______ (at, for, in, on) the job, for different reasons. One caregiver said that she had (3) ______ always, often, never, usually) been close to her mother. Another was the oldest child. (4) ______ (But, Even, Still, Yet) another was the youngest child. In other (5) ______ (cases, respects, terms, words), they all felt that they could do the job better than (6) ______ (anyone, everyone, no one, someone) else. Social workers interviewed caregivers to find out (7) ______ (how, what, when, why) they took on the responsibility of caring for an elderly, (8) ______ (dependable, dependent, helpless, reliable) relative. They discovered three basic reasons. Many caregivers believed that they had a(n) (9) ______ (affection, burden, charge, responsibility) to help their relative. Some stated that helping others made them feel more (10) ______ (delightful, meaningful, respectful, useful). Others hoped that by helping someone now, they (11) ______ (deserve, observe, preserve, reserve) care when they became old and dependent.
In the U.S. family members provide over 80 percent of the care that elderly people need. The average middle-aged couple can look forward (12) ______ (cared, caring, to care, to caring) for elderly parents some time after children have grown
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up. (13) ______ (But, Moreover, So, Therefore) because people today live longer (14) ______ (after, because of, before, in spite of) an illness than people did years ago, family members must provide long-term care. These facts also (15) ______ (mean, prove, show, suggest) that after caregivers provide for their elderly parents, who will eventually die, they will be old and may require care too.
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