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Directions：In this section，there is a passage with ten blanks.You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage.Read the passage through carefully before making your choices.Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter.Please mark the corresponding letter for each item on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre.You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.

Contrary to popular belief，older people generally do not want to live with their children.Moreover，most adult children 26 every bit as much care and support to their aging parents as was the case in the“good old days”，and most older people do not feel 27 .

About 80%of people 65 years and older have living children，and about 90%of them have 28 contact with their children.About 75%of elderly parents who don’t go to nursing homes live within 30 minutes of at least one of their children.

However， 29 having contact with children does not guarantee happiness in old age.In fact，some research has found that people who are most involved with their families have the lowest spirits.This research may be 30 ，however，as ill health often makes older people more 31 and thereby increases contact with family members.So it is more likely that poor health，not just family involvement， 32 spirits.

Increasingly，researchers have begun to look at the quality of relationships，rather than at the frequency of contact，between the elderly and their children.If parents and children share interests and values and agree on childrearing practices and religious 33 ，they are likely to enjoy each other’s company.Disagreements on such matters can 34 cause problems.If parents are angered by their daughter’s divorce，dislike her new husband，and disapprove of how she is raising their grandchildren， 35 are that they are not going to enjoy her visits.

A）abandoned I）frequent

B）advanced J）fulfillment

C）biased K）grant

D）chances L）merely

E）commitment M）provide

F）dampens N）understandably

G）dependent O）unrealistically

H）distant