答案：Michael Soupios suggests that we should stop and think carefully about our priorities in life.

A、According to recent reports and data analyses, boomers suffer most from the weak economy.

B、Michael Soupios suggests that we should stop and think carefully about our priorities in life.

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Cet-4-1.7-Exercise 02

1.J) “This is Hesiod, of course, a younger contemporary poet, we believe, with Homer,” Soupios says. “Hesiod offers an idea — which you very often find in some of the world’s great religions, in the Judeo-Christian tradition and in Islam and others — that in some sense, when you hurt another human being, you hurt yourself. That damaging other people in your community and in your life, trashing relationships, results in a kind of self-inflicted spiritual wound.”

答案：A

A、Do harm to others and you do harm to yourself.

B、Unemployed boomers are at a disadvantage in job-hunting because employers tend to hire younger workers.

长篇阅读：简单转换+重要逻辑（转折）

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Cet-4-1.8-Exercise 01

1.J) As I was considering all this, a press release from a respected research firm crossed my desk, announcing that the five-star rating system that Medicare developed in 2008 to help families compare nursing home quality also has little relationship to how satisfied its residents or their family members are. As a matter of fact, consumers expressed higher satisfaction with the one-star facilities, the lowest rated, than with the five-star ones. (More on this study and the star ratings will appear in a subsequent post.)

答案：The system Medicare developed to rate nursing home quality is of little help to finding a satisfactory place.

A、The author has come to agree that food shortages could ultimately lead to the collapse of world civilization.

B、The system Medicare developed to rate nursing home quality is of little help to finding a satisfactory place.

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Cet-4-1.8-Exercise 02

1.C) As demand for food rises faster than supplies are growing, the resulting food-price inflation puts severe stress on the governments of many countries. Unable to buy grain or grow their own, hungry people take to the streets. Indeed, even before the steep climb in grain prices in 2008, the number of failing states was expanding. If the food situation continues to worsen, entire nations will break down at an ever increasing rate. In the 20th century the main threat to international security was superpower conflict; today it is failing states.