評論
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Conversation One
對話一
M: Today, we have Professor McKay on our morning talk show. Good morning, Professor McKay. I've heard that you and your team have just completed a report on old age.
男：今天我們的訪談節目請來了麥凱教授。早上好，麥凱教授。我了解到您和您的團隊剛剛完成了一份關于年老的報告。
W: That's right. Well, the report basically looks into the various beliefs that people hold about old age and tries to verify them.
女：是的。這份報告主要調查了人們對老齡期的不同觀點，以并試圖加以驗證。
M: And what do you think your report can achieve?
男：那么，您對這份報告的預期成果是什么呢？
W: We hope that it will somehow help people to change their feelings about old age. The problem is that far too many of us believe that most old people are poor, lonely, and unhappy. As a result, we tend to find old people, as a group, unattractive. And this is very dangerous for our society.
女：我們希望它可以幫助人們改變對老齡期的看法。現在存在的問題是，很多人認為老年人很窮、很孤單，而且不幸福。因此，我們開始討厭整個的老年人群體。這對于我們社會而言是很危險的。
M: But surely we cannot escape the fact that many old people are lonely and many are sick.
男：但是我們的確不能否認很多老年人孤單、體弱多病的事實啊。
W: No, we can't. But we must also remember that the proportion of such people is no greater among the 60-70 age group than among the 50-60 age group.
女：是的，這一點不可否認。但是我們也應該記得，六七十歲的孤獨、患病的老年人的比例并不比五六十歲的孤獨、患病的人群的比例大。
M: In other words, there is no more mental illness, for example, among the 60s-70s than among the 50s-60s.
男：我舉個例子，你的意思是說六七十歲的老人當中精神出現問題的人數不比五六十歲人數多嗎？
W: Right!
女：對！
M: Are people's mental abilities affected by old age?
男：那人們的精神問題會受到年老的影響嗎？
W: Certain changes do take place as we grow older, but this happens throughout life. These changes are very gradual and happen at different times with different people, but, in general, if you know a person well in his middle age and have seen how he deals with events and problems, you will easily recognize him in an old age.
女：隨著年齡增長的確會發生一些變化，但是這應該放到整個人生階段來考慮。這些變化發生的非常緩慢，而且不同的人發生這些變化的時間不同，但是如果你在一個人中年時期就了解他，知道他的行為處事，即使他上了年齡后你仍然能辨認出他來。
M: So that someone who enjoys new experiences, travel, education, and so on in his middle years will usually continue to do so into old age?
男：也就是說，如果一個人中年時喜歡體驗新鮮事物、旅行、學習，晚年后他還會繼續這樣，是這樣嗎？
W: Exactly.
女：完全正確。
Questions 1 to 4 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
問題1至問題4是基于剛才你所聽到的這段對話
Question 1.According to the conversation, what do we know about the report?
問題1 根據對話，我們對報告了解了什么？
Question 2.What does Professor McKay think the report can achieve?
問題2 麥凱教授對報告的預期成果是什么？
Question 3.What do we know about old people who are lonely and sick?
問題3 我們對孤單、多病的老人的了解是什么？
Question 4.What do we know about the changes that happen on old people?
問題4 關于老年人發生的變化我們了解什么？
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