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经过了长时间的努力，考验我们的时候终于来到了。明天我们要怀着轻松的心情走进考场，希望每个人都能发挥出超常水平，达到最佳状态!同样，即使我们这次没能通过，我们也没有必要气馁。因为真正重要的是我们在学习过程中学到的知识和获得的经验技巧。四六级并不是我们英语学习道路上的终点，恰恰相反――这是一个新的起点：让我们以更广阔的视野获取最快捷的咨询的途径。最后感谢大家长时间支持我们的节目，与我们共同分享学习中点点滴滴苦涩与清醇。 It doesnt matter if we win or lose. It only matters if we try as hard as we can. If we give every ounce of spirit weve got. What do we say? ---Say Yeah! I can!! loudly. ~~~:) In the United States, older people rarely live with their adult children. But in many other cultures children are expected to care their aged parents. In some parts of Italy, the percentage of adult children who with their parents 65 to 70 percent. In Thailand, too, children are expected to care for their elderly parents; few Thai elderly live . 21. about after for over 22. reside recite redeem rebel 23. amasses amounts attains reaches 24. lone alone lonesome lonely What explains these differences in living arrangements cultures? Modernization theory the extended family household to low levels of economic development. In traditional societies, the elderly live with their children in large extended family units for economic reasons. But with modernization, children move to urban areas, leaving old people in rural areas. Yet modernization theory cannot explain why extended family households were never common in the United States or England, or why families in Italy, which is fully modernized, a strong tradition of intergenerational living. Clearly, economic development alone cannot explain living arrangements. | 
