王强口语 第二册 Read Text 016
时间：2018-12-26 作者：英语课 分类：王强口语 第二册
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Old Age Crisis 1
Old people nowadays don't live with their adult children if they can afford some other option. Those who do live with other family members are usually poor or recent immigrants 2 who still have old world ideas.
The "problem of old age in America" is a big concern these days. The sheer 3 number of old people in the country, and the way this number will mushroom in the next twenty years, is one part of the problem. Another part is that, with people living longer in general, you wind up with seniors in their 60's taking care of their even older parents who are in their 80's. Modern medicine can prolong 4 people's lives, but there is no guarantee that those lives will be healthy or active. The majority of medical resources in this country are spent on people who are in their last years of life. Most Americans die in hospitals under the care of doctors and nurses who spare no expense trying to keep them alive.
- He had proved that he could be relied on in a crisis.他已表明，在紧要关头他是可以信赖的。
- The topic today centers about the crisis in the Middle East.今天课题的中心是中东危机。
- Illegal immigrants were given the opportunity to regularize their position. 非法移民得到了使其身份合法化的机会。
- Immigrants from all over the world populate this city. 这个城市里生活着来自世界各地的移民。 来自《简明英汉词典》