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Unit Nine: How to Grow Old TEXT COMPREHENSION IV. Explain in your own words the following sentences taken from the text. The other thing one should avoid is being emotionally attached to young people, from whom one hopes to draw energy and vigor. … and it is in this area of impersonal interests (such as academic and artistic interests) that the wisdom you have accumulated in your life can be practiced without putting any pressure on your children and grandchildren. LANGUAGE WORK I. Explain the underlined parts in each sentence in your own words. 1). Although both my parents died young, I have done well in this respect as regards my other ancestors ( with reference to/relating to 2). Of remoter ancestors I can only discover one who did not live to a great age, and he died of a disease which is now rare, namely, having his head cut off. ( ancestors who lived a long time ago; specifically 3). She used to relate how she met in Italy an elderly gentleman who was looking very sad. ( tell 4). I have seventy-two grandchildren, and if I were sad each time I parted from one of them, I should have a dismal existence! ( bid farewell to/were separated from; a miserable life 5). I never do anything whatever on the ground that it is good for health, though in actual fact the things I like doing are mostly wholesome. ( for the reason that; healthful 6). Psychologically there are two dangers to be guarded against in old age. ( we should prevent from happening/we should watch out for 7). ... you are likely to become a burden to them, unless they are unusually callous. ( heartless/indifferent 8). In the young there is a justification for this feeling. ( good reason 9). And if, with the decay of vitality, weariness increases, the thought of rest will not be unwelcome. ( tiredness 10). The best way to overcome it ... is to make your interests gradually wider and more impersonal, until bit by bit the walls of the ego recede, and your life becomes increasingly merged in the universa