专项练****160; Dictation 1 Old Age Many people mistakenly believe that old age is a time of increased illness and loneliness./ In fact, people do not suddenly change /when they reach the age of 60 or 65. /Consequently, we should not expect more mental illness/ among the 60to 70 age group than among the50 to 60. /Furthermore, although more parents and their married children live in separate households than ever before,/ this is usually by choice. It is not because children now tend to neglect their parents /when they e old. /Itis also wrong to believe that old age seriously affects a person’s mental abilities. /There is clear proof that people who were eager to learn and who ed new experiences in their middle age,/ continue to do so in old age. /It is true that older people tend to take longer to learn something new than young people. /Nevertheless, if they are given sufficient time, /they learn as well as young people do. Dictation 2 Gardening Gardening is one of the oldest of the arts. /The Chinese with their deep sensitiveness to beauty /laid the foundation for a form of garden art /which was later to have great influences upon other lands. /The Greeks gave to the world a new concept of gardening. /Their homes were decorated with flowers/but it was in their civic design that they most skillfully applied their garden art. /Their temples were surrounded by rows oftrees, /and trees l
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