辽宁省大连市庄河市2017高考英语短文语法填空一轮练习：1（含解析）_高考复习指南

辽宁省大连市庄河市2017高考英语短文语法填空一轮练习：1（含解析）

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　　【2017高考英语广东省中山市华侨中学二模试题】

　　语法填空（共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分）

　　阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，在空格处填入一个适当的词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空，并将答案填在答题卡标号为16~25的相应位置上。

　　America is growing older. Fifty years ago, only 4 out of every 100 people in the United States were 65 or older. Today, 10 out of every 100 Americans are __16__________ 65. The aging of the population will affect American society in many ways -- education, medicine, __17__________ business. Quietly, the graying of America has made us a very different society -- one in which people have a quite different idea of __18________ kind of behavior is suitable at various ages. A person’s age no longer tells you anything about his / her position, __19__________ (marry) or health. There’s no longer a particular year __20__________ one goes to school or goes to work or gets married or starts a family. The social clock that __21__________ (keep) us on time and told us when to go to school, get a job, or stop working isn’t as strong as __22__________ used to be. It doesn’t surprise us to hear of a 25-year-old university president or a 35-year-old grandmother, or __23__________ 80-year-old man who has become a father for the first time. Public ideas are changing. Many people say, “I am much __24__________ (young) than my mother -- or my father -- was at my age.” No one says “Act your age” any more. We’ve stopped __25__________ (look) with surprise at older people who act in youthful ways.