1. Seniors today are better educated, healthier, and more vivacious than at any time in our nation's history.
2. They are active, energetic, and willing and can meet many program needs through their volunteer efforts.
3. Because they are living longer than ever before, seniors can anticipate up to 30 years of productive activity after retirement.
4. When choosing where and how to volunteer, seniors should pick the type of activity that best suits their personal goals as well as the needs of the recipients. 5. We want to help them embrace the world with their numerous gifts and talents, instead of the world embracing them with handcuffs and incarceration.
Mention the word retirement, and you'll likely invoke a range of reactions. Some think of retirement as a rite of passage（人生大事）, others as a time to relax. The cynical * may view it as a point beyond which one can no longer contribute to society. This is far from the truth! Seniors today are better educated, healthier, and more vivacious than at any time in our nation's history. They are active, energetic, and willing and can meet many program needs through their volunteer efforts. Seniors are a valuable resource with many gifts to offer - among them, experience, patience, skills, time, and wealth - that are unique to them.
The senior population, and its proportion relative to the rest of the population, is increasing rapidly. The Corporation for National and Community Service (CNS) estimates that, in 2000, some 35 million people aged 65 or older were living in the
United States, accounting for 13% of the total population. The aging baby boom generation is expected to double the senior population over the next 30 years. And because they are living longer than ever before, seniors can anticipate* up to 30 years of productive activity after retirement.
Seniors share their gifts and life experiences to address issues in school systems, public safety, the environment, and other human needs.
Many seniors do not volunteer through formal programs. Some are one-time volunteers; others volunteer for a seasonal or special event. When choosing where and how to volunteer, seniors should pick the type of activity that best suits their personal goals as well as the needs of the recipients. Most importantly, be creative, selective, and have fun -like the volunteers featured here.
Like many Americans, Eloise Bowers and Joan Gross recognized the need for additional support for juveniles as they develop and mature into adults. These seniors, however, decided to give back to their community and develop positive relationships with juveniles through FGP.
The \50 of the most at-risk youth in the District of Columbia turn their lives around. \our job to help youth link with their peers and the community, as well as help their community and their peers link with them,\must be mutual.\
Some youth in the program have children of their own and need child-rearing tips. Others use inappropriate language and need to expand their vocabulary. Many
respond with violence and need avenues to vent* anger, whereas others dress inappropriately and need fashion tips（时尚锦囊，小贴士）. \helping these youth help themselves,\Bowers explains. \want to help them embrace the world with their numerous gifts and talents, instead of the world embracing them with handcuffs and incarceration.\
Bowers and Gross say their goals as foster grandparents are to serve as role models; make appropriate referrals for resources; teach respect with language and dress; share ways to manage anger, conflict, and anxiety; support successful transitions to mainstream schools, job training, and employment; and provide sincere love and understanding.
A：Pre-listening Question
Governmental provision for social security is slow to develop in the US, though there are now some elements of a comprehensive system, with some serious gaps, as well as variations between the states.
For both old age and illness, provision is now partly private, partly public. Most Americans when at work make some provision for their retirement, through savings, investment and insurance policies, company or union pension funds. Federal government social security provides pensions for retired people, and also unemployment benefit for six months, based on compulsory contributions by people at work. The rate of the pension gives an income above the official poverty line, and sufficient for minimal comfort, but only about a quarter of median earnings from
employment. It is not related to a person's income from private pensions or other sources.
B：Sentence Dictation
Directions: Listen to some sentences and write them down. You will hear each sentence three times.
C：Detailed Listening
Directions: Listen to the passage and choose the best answer to complete each of the following sentences.
1.C 2.C 3.A 4.C 5.A 6.D 7.D 8. D
D：After-listening Discussion
Directions: Listen to the passage again and discuss the following questions. 1. Bowers and Gross say their goals as foster grandparents are to serve as role models; make appropriate referrals for resources; teach respect with language and dress; share ways to manage anger, conflict, and anxiety; support successful transitions to mainstream schools, job training, and employment; and provide sincere love and understanding.
\their community and their peers link with them.\world with their numerous gifts and talents, instead of the world embracing them with
handcuffs and incarceration. \ 2. (Open)
Section Three News
News Item 1
A research team led by Dr. Carle Pieters of Brown University announced the results at a NASA news conference on Thursday.
Using data from an American instrument flying on Indian satellite - and confirming data from two other spacecraft - they found water pretty much all over the moon, though more toward the poles and concentrated at the lunar surface.
Carle Pieters spoke of water, as did the other scientists, and certainly the news reports have headlined \found on the moon.\But another member of the research team, Jack Mustard, also of Brown, said it's unclear whether they're seeing water - a molecule with two atoms of hydrogen and one of oxygen - H20 - or hydroxyl, a chemical with only one hydrogen atom - OH.
That data comes not from examining the rocks on the moon directly, but from analyzing spectrographs of the light reflected from the moon. Different chemicals have different spectrographic signatures, but those of water and hydroxyl are very similar.
Finding water, if that's what it is, probably won't be of much use to any future human visitors to the Moon. But it may be an additional clue as scientists try to work out how the moon and the planets were formed.
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