施心远听力教程第二版第四册unit8.pdf

Unit 8 Section 1 Listening and Translation 1. The oldest of American’s baby boomers are 60 years old this year. 2. The United States and many other industrialized countries have a growing retiree population and are expecting that growth to continue. 3. By the time this generation reaches the traditional retirement age of 65, they will represent 20 percent of the US population. 4. Baby boomers have a higher rate of home ownership than the national average and one out of four own more than one property. 5. Many boomers feel they are in good health and believe they will live longer and be happier if they continue to be active. 1. 年龄最大的一批在美国二战后生育高峰出生的人今年将满六十岁。 2. 美国和许多工业化国家的退休人口都在增长，而这种增长预计还将持续。 3. 当这一代人到达传统退休年龄——65 岁时，他们的人数将占美国人口的百分 之二十。 4. 战后生育高峰年代出生的人拥有住房的比例高于全国平均水平，其中四分之 一的人拥有一处以上的房产。 5. 很多战后生育高峰年代出生的人觉得自己现在还很健康，并且相信如果继续 保持积极的心态，他们将更加长寿，生活得更愉快。 Section 2 Part 1 Dialogue 1-6 T F T F F T 7-12 F T T T T Part 2 passage Ex C: 1-5 C C D B D Section 3 News Item 1 New research comparing the different ways that babies are reared (抚 养)suggests there is chemical evidence to support the view that those deprived of affection when young find later life much harder to cope with. The research was conducted by the US National Academy of Sciences ( 美 国国家科学院). The researchers say it was a very rare opportunity for them to have access to a group of young children who had been brought up very early in life in an orphanage (孤儿院) before being taken in by families. In the orphanage the children utterly lacked the kind of physical affection they should have experienced. By comparison with their family-raised peers, they had very depressed levels of the hormone arginine vasopressin*, which plays a key role in regulating stress and managing social interac- 1 / 3 tions (社会交往). And they reacted far less when cuddled (抚爱的拥抱)by their adoptive parents as indicated by le