[单项选择]A man has to make _________ for his old age by putting aside enough money to live on when old.
A. accommodations
B. provision
C. commitment
D. supply

[单项选择]A man has to make ______ for his old age by putting aside enough money to live on when old.
A. supply
B. assurance
C. provision
D. storage

[单项选择]A man has to make______for his old age by putting aside enough money to live when olD．
A. supply
B. assurance
C. provision
D. adjustment

[单项选择]A man has to make ____________for his old age by putting aside enough money to live on when old.
A. supply
B. assurance
C. provision
D. adjustment

[单项选择](Despite) his old (age), he is still (very) (healthful) and often works in the field.
A. Despite
B. age
C. very
D. healthful

[单项选择]My father has promised to put his car entirely at our ______ for the holiday.
A. disposal
B. usage
C. pleasure
D. disposition

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Text 3 Much of the American anxiety about old age is a flight from the reality of death. One of the striking qualities of the American character is the unwillingness to face either the fact or meaning of death. In the more somber tradition of American literature -- from Hawthorne and Melville and Poe to Faulkner and Hemingway -- one finds a tragic depth that disguises the surface thinness of the ordinary American death attitudes. By an effort of the imagination, the great writers faced problems that the culture in action is reluctant to face -- the fact of death, its mystery, and its place in the back-and-forth shuttling of the eternal recurrence. The unblinking confrontation of death in Greek time, the elaborate theological patterns woven around it in the Middle Ages, the ritual celebration of it in the rich, peasant cultures of Latin and Slavic Europe and in primitive cultures; these are difficult to find in American life. Whether through fear of the emotional depths, or
A. In American life, people hardly mention the death.
B. In the Middle Ages, death was surrounded by respect.
C. In primitive cultures, death was faced with awe.
D. In Greek times, people .were afraid of facing death.

[单项选择]Many old age pensioners have no other source of income and pension levels are not adequate______.
A. living on
B. to live on it
C. to live on
D. living on it

[单项选择]According to the writer, women in old age are most likely to enjoy an increase in status in one of the following societies:
A. Japanese society.
B. Chinese society.
C. American society.
D. British society.