2009年12月英语四级考试阅读理解训练(六)

　　解题技巧：

　　文章中涉及的个人或组织的态度也是一个常考点。解答这类题目时，应该用这些个人的姓名或组织的名称作为线索词急性定位，找到原文中相应的段落或句子，再根据文中的用词和句式进行判断

　　…Ofen, older parents hear the ticking of another kind of biological clock. Therapists who work with middle-aged and aged parents say fears about aging are nothing to laugh at. “ They worry they’ll be mistaken for grandparents, or that they’ll need help getting up out of those little chairs in nursery school,” says Joann Galst, a New York psychologist. But at the core of those little fears there is often a muchi bigger one: “that they won’t be alive enough to support and protect their child,” she says….

　　Q: What’s the biggest fear of older parents according to New York psychologist Joann Galst?

　　A . Being laughed at by other people.

　　B. Slowing down of their paces of life.

　　C. Being mistaken for grandparents.

　　D. Approaching of death

　　【解析】

　　选D。根据题干中New York psychologist Joann Galst回到原文迅速定位，题干中的biggest对应原文中的core和muchi bigger one。答案应在冒号后面的引文部分：“担心不能活到足够大的年岁一直抚养和保护孩子”。所以选D，death对应原文中的won’t be alive.