A. dream of getting an easy job
B. set out to do the same job
C. compare two different things
D. change the former cours

     People in China are among the  most fearful of getting old, a new global survey suggests.
     According to Bupa, a British healthcare organization, which asked 12262 people in 12
countries about their attitudes toward aging, 28  percent of the Chinese polled said they feel
depressed when they think about getting old.
     And although 72 percent of all respondents aged 65 and over  said they do not feel old,
the survey conducted in June and July this year found more than half of those aged 45 to 54
in China already consider themselves to be elderly. About 30 percent  of Chinese respondents
said they worry about who will look after them in later years, while 91 percent agreed the
government of the world's most populous nation  should improve care for the elderly.
     However, because people in China think about their future earlier, research suggests the
country could be one of the best prepared for addressing the aging problem. About one third
of Chinese respondents--more than double the global average-said they have put money aside
for retirement, while 46 percent have taken out insurance, the poll showed. Despite being one
of the best prepared nations, three fifths of those surveyed in China expect their family to care
for them when they can no longer do so themselves.
     A Bupa-sponsored report,however, revealed that the "informal care network"  (the traditional
pattern of families looking after the elderly) is disintegrating. This is due to a number of factors,
said the report, including structural changes to the population, the increase of women in employment,
the increase of one-person households and the rise in divorce rates.
     The first batch of Chinese couples with only one child are largely in their 50s or 60s because the
country's family planning policy was adopted in the late 1970s.
     Li Yinping, 55, a retired accountant, said she thinks only people in their 70s can be called old.
She said her pension is enough to support her in later years and that her only hope is that her son
can visit regularly. "I don't worry about my later years at all," said Li. "When I'm old, I can turn to a
rest home. The local hospital can deliver the medicine I need with just a phone call."
     Xiao Zhe, a 26-year-old computer engineer in Beijing, is an only child whose parents live in his
hometown of Chongqing. "I'm so busy with my work that I can't go back to visit them often," he said.
"When they're not able to care for themselves, I will hire a nurse to look after them."
     China will become the oldest society in the world by 2030, according to a recent report by a
Beijing-based government think tank. The United Nations also forecasts that people aged 60 and
over will account for 28 percent of the country's total population by 2040.

A. Chinese government put forward family planning policy in the late 1970s.
B. Senior citizens will account for a high percentage of the country's total population by 2040.
C. The local hospital can deliver the medicine to senior citizens in need.
D. There is a trend that grown-up children live apart from parents

                                                                     A Gift of God
     One fine summer morning-it was the beginning of harvest, I remember-Mr. Earnshaw came
down stairs, dressed for a journey; after he had told Joseph what was to be done during the day,
he turned to Hindley and Cathy, and me-for I sat eating my porridge with them-and speaking to
his son, he said:
    "Now, I'm going to Liverpool today. What shall I bring you? You may choose what you like;
only small things, for I shall walk there and back; sixty miles each way, that is a long time!"
     Hindley named a fiddle (a kind of violin), and then he asked Miss Cathy. She was hardly six
years old, but she could ride any horse in the stable. She chose a whip(鞭子).He did not forget
me; for he had a kind heart, though he was rather serious sometimes. He promised to bring me
a pocketful of apples and pears. Then he kissed his children good-bye and set off.
     The three days of his absence seemed a long while to us all. Mrs. Earnshaw expected him by
supper-time on the third evening. She put off the meal hour after hour. There were no signs of his
coming, however. About eleven o'clock the door opened and in stepped the master. He threw
himself into a chair, laughing and groaning, and told them all to stand off, for he was nearly killed.
He would never again have another such walk for whatever reasons.
     Opening his great coat, which he held bundled up in his arms, he said: "See here, wife. I was
never so beaten with anything in my life. But you must take it as a gift of God though it's as dark
almost as if it came from the devil."
     We crowded round him. And over Miss Cathy's head, I had a look at a dirty, ragged, black-haired
child-big enough both to walk and talk-yet, when it was set on its feet, it only stared round, and
repeated over and over again some strange words that nobody could understand. I was frightened,
and Mrs. Earnshaw was ready to throw it out of doors. She did get angry, asking why he should have
brought that gipsy child into the house when they had their own kids to feed and look after? What he
meant to do with it?
   The master tried to explain the matter though he was really half dead with tiredness. All that I could
make out, among her scolding, was a story of his seeing it starving, and homeless, and almost dumb
(哑的) in the streets of Liverpool where he picked it up and inquired for its owner. But not a person
knew to whom it belonged. He said that as both his money and time was limited, he thought it better
to take it home with him at once than run into vain expenses there. Anyway he was determined he
would not leave it as he found it.
   Well, finally Mrs. Earnshaw calmed down, and Mr. Earnshaw told me to wash it, give it clean things,
and let it sleep with the children.
    Hindley and Cathy then began searching their father's pockets for the presents he had promised
them. But when Hindley drew out what had been a fiddle, crushed (压坏) to pieces in the great coat,
he cried loudly. And Cathy, when she learned her father had lost her whip in attending on the stranger,
showed her feeling by spitting at the gipsy child, earning herself a sound blow from Mr. Earnshaw to
 teach her cleaner manners.
                                                               (Adapted from Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte) 

     We all need physical exercise. Exercise uses up food we eat and keeps the body full of energy.
It works your muscles and makes your heart work hard so as to send blood to your muscles. So,
exercise makes your heart and muscles strong. Exercise also makes you feel refreshed. If you exercise
a couple of times a week, you will stay happy and healthy.
     Some Western countries, such as the United States, have problems with exercise. In the US, many
people don't have enough exercise because it is hard for them. People have to work from dawn till dusk,
so they don't have time to take exercise. They work in office buildings sitting in chairs all day long in
front of computers. They cannot get much exercise sitting at desk passively.
     Some Westerners can get exercise walking from their homes to work. However, the majority of
people cannot do this. It is too far from their homes to their offices. They have no choice but to drive
to work. In fact, some have to drive one or two hours to their offices. This is unfavorable in two ways.
First, these people don't have a chance to exercise because they are sitting in their cars for two to four
hours each day. Second, driving is challenging especially in rush hours and calls for too much attention.
It makes a person worn out. So, when these people arrive home at night, they don't have the desire to
take exercise after work.
     Today, many people in the West are overweight, which causes health problems for them. Doctors
say exercise can help people both lose weight and improve their health. So many people are trying to
get more exercise. But it takes time to change, and when people don't see a difference right away, they
will lose heart and stop exercising.

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