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大学英语6级考试预测试题4 Part ⅠWriting Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay entitled On Remedial Examinations. You should write at least 150 words following the outline given below. 1．补考是大学教育的一部分 2．补考的利与弊 3．如何发挥补考的作用 On Remedial Examinations ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ Part Ⅱ Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning) When Mom and Dad Grow Old The prospect of talking to increasingly fragile parents about their future can be one of the most difficult challenges adult children will ever face, says Clarissa Green, a Vancouver therapist. People often tell me they dont want to raise sensitive issues with their parents about bringing in caregivers or moving, she says. Theyll say, I dont want to see Dad cry. But Green usually responds, Whats wrong with that? Adult children, she says, need to try to join their parents in grieving their decline, acknowledge their living arrangements may on longer work and, if necessary, help them say goodbye to their beloved home. Its sad. And its supposed to be. Its about death itself. There are almost four million men and women over age 65 in Canada. Nearly two thirds of them manage to patch together enough support—from family, friends, private anti government ser vices-to live independently until virtually the day they die, according to Statistics Canada. Of the Canadian seniors who live to 85 and over, almost one iii three end up being moved?sometimes kicking梩o group livingan for the last years of their lives. Even in the best-case scenarios (可能出现的情况), such dislocations can bring sorrow. Often the family feels guilty, and the senior feels abandoned, says Charmaine Spencer, a professor in the geront