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Moreover, it has not only come to stay but, especially in the developing countries, it will become more felt and acute with the passage of time. Its repercussions are so wide-ranging and manifold that they can only be ignored at a tremendous cost to society. <\/span><\/p>\n The growing rate of population aging poses many challenges which have to be faced realistically. A number of decisions have to be taken with the cooperation of every social institution, be it the State, Non-Governmental Organizations, the community, the family members and last but not least, the older persons themselves. Each has a very important role to play in ensuring a sustainable development for the elderly population.<\/span><\/p>\n Governments and civil society including organizations of older persons, academia, community-based organizations and the private sector need to help in capacity building on aging issues. As the Shanghai Implementation Strategy points out, \u201cA life-course and inter-sectoral approach to health and well-being is the best approach to ensure that both current and future generations of older persons remain healthy and active\u201d. <\/span><\/p>\n The gap between the projected increases of the older population and the consequently required services, combined with the parallel development of the personnel needed to carry out these services, creates a pressing and urgent need to train appropriate staff. Training programmes have to be tailored to the nature of the participants, the work they are doing and the needs entailed. Though the basic issues dealt with might often be the same, the approach differs. It will be important in the not too distant future to explore innovative ways of providing education and training in rural and remote areas and to apply, as much as possible, the new and emerging communication technologies to facilitate and enhance these programmes.<\/span><\/p>\n Every member of society should realize that aging is a process. Consequently, older persons are to be seen as equal citizens of any society, sharing the same rights like other citizens. 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Although she gives badly ____ titles to her musical compositions, they ____ unusual combinations of materials including classical music patterns and rhythms, electronic sounds, and bird songs. 04. When the author writes \u201cthe policies and strategies of international development agencies more or less mirrored the thinking of their colonial predecessors.\u201d\uff08para. 4\uff09, he implies all the following EXCEPT that the aid agencies did not ____. 05. When Kurt Opsahl says that \u201cThey should be able to take advantage of the Internet without worrying about Big Brother looking over their shoulders.\u201d\uff08para. 5\uff09, the expression \u201cBig Brother\u201d is used to refer to ____. Part 3: Answering Questions. \uff0820 P\uff09 Questions Passage B Part 4: Writing. \uff0830 P\uff09 \u771f\u9898\u6765\u6e90\uff1a\u4e92\u8054\u7f51\u00a0 MTIZT.COM\u6574\u7406<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I. Phrase Translation CPPCC \u4e2d\u56fd\u4eba\u6c11\u653f\u6cbb\u534f\u5546\u4f1a\u8bae(Chinese People&# … \u7ee7\u7eed\u9605\u8bfb \u5e7f\u4e1c\u5916\u8bed\u5916\u8d38\u5927\u5b662010\u5e74\u7ffb\u8bd1\u7855\u58ebMTI\u771f\u9898\u4e0e\u7b54\u6848<\/span> II. Passage translation<\/h3>\n
Section\u00a0A Chinese to English<\/strong><\/h4>\n
Section\u00a0B English to Chinese<\/strong><\/h4>\n
\nA. conventional \/ incorporate
\nB. eccentric \/ deploy
\nC. traditional \/ exclude
\nD. imaginative \/ disguise
\n02. Even though the folktales Perroult collected and retold were not solely French in origin, his versions of them were so decidedly French in style that later anthologies of French folktales have never ____ them.
\nA. excluded
\nB. admired
\nC. collected
\nD. comprehended
\n03. In arguing against assertions that environmental catastrophe is imminent, her book does not ridicule all predictions of doom but rather claims that the risks of harm have in many cases been ____.
\nA. exaggerated
\nB. ignored
\nC. scrutinized
\nD. derided
\n04. There seems to be no ____ the reading public\u2019s thirst for books about the 1960\u2019s: indeed, the normal level of interest has ____ recently because of a spate of popular television documentaries.
\nA. quenching \/ moderated
\nB. whetting \/ mushroomed
\nC. slaking \/ increased
\nD. ignoring \/ transformed
\n05. Despite a tendency to be overtly ____, the poetry of the Middle Ages often sparks the imagination and provides lively entertainment, as well as pious sentiments.
\nA. diverting
\nB. emotional
\nC. didactic
\nD. romantic
\n06. One of the first ____ of reduced burning in Amazon rain forests was the chestnut industry: smoke tends to drive out the insect that, by pollinating chestnut tree, allow chestnuts to develop.
\nA. reformers
\nB. discoveries
\nC. casualties
\nD. beneficiaries
\n07. The research committee urged the archaeologist to ____ her claim that the tomb she has discovered was that of Alexander the Great, since her initial report has been based only on ____.
\nA. disseminate \/ supposition
\nB. withdraw \/ evidence
\nC. undercut \/ caprice
\nD. document \/ conjecture
\n08. Although Heron is well known for the broad comedy in the movies she has directed previously, her new film is less inclined to ____: the gags are fewer and subtler.
\nA. understatement
\nB. preciosity
\nC. symbolism
\nD. melodrama
\n09. Bebop\u2019s legacy is ____ one: bebop may have won jazz the right to be taken seriously as an art form, but it ____ jazz\u2019s mass audience, which turned to other forms of music such as rock and pop.
\nA. a mixed \/ alienated
\nB. a troubled \/ seduced
\nC. an ambiguous \/ aggrandized
\nD. a valuable \/ refined
\n10. The exhibition\u2019s importance lies in its ____: curators have gathered a diverse array of significant works from many different museums.
\nA. homogeneity
\nB. sophistry
\nC. scope
\nD. farsightedness
\n11. Despite the fact that the commission\u2019s report treats a vitally important topic, the report will be ____ read because its prose is so ____ that understanding it requires an enormous effort.
\nA. seldom \/ transparent
\nB. carefully \/ pellucid
\nC. little \/ turgid
\nD. eagerly \/ digressive
\n12. Carleton would still rank among the great ____ of nineteenth century American art even if the circumstance of her life and career were less ____ than they are.
\nA. celebrities \/ obscure
\nB. failures \/ illustrious
\nC. charlatans \/ impeccable
\nD. enigmas \/ mysterious
\n13. Although based on an actual event, the film lacks ____: the director shuffles events, simplifies the tangle of relationships, and ____ documentary truth for dramatic power.
\nA. conviction \/ embraces
\nB. expressiveness \/ exaggerates
\nC. verisimilitude \/ sacrifices
\nD. realism \/ substitutes
\n14. When Adolph Ochs became the publisher of The New York Times, he endowed the paper with a uniquely ____ tone, avoiding the ____ editorials that characterized other major papers of the time.
\nA. abstruse \/ scholarly
\nB. dispassionate \/ shrill
\nC. argumentative \/ tendentious
\nD. cosmopolitan \/ timely
\n15. There are as good fish in the sea ____ ever came out of it.
\nA. than
\nB. like
\nC. as
\nD. so
\n16. All the President\u2019s Men ____ one of the important books for historians who study the Watergate Scandal.
\nA. remain
\nB. remains
\nC. remained
\nD. is remaining
\n17. \u201cYou ____ borrow my notes provided you take care of them\u201d, I told my friend.
\nA. could
\nB. should
\nC. must
\nD. can
\n18. If only the patient ____ a different treatment instead of using the antibiotics, he might still be alive now.
\nA. had received
\nB. received
\nC. should receive
\nD. were receiving
\n19. Linda was ____ the experiment a month ago, but she changed her mind at the last minute.
\nA. to start
\nB. to have started
\nC. to be starting
\nD. to have been starting
\n20. She ____ fifty or so when I first met her at the conference.
\nA. must be
\nB. had been
\nC. could be
\nD. must have been
\n21. It is not ____ much the language as the background that makes the book difficult to understand.
\nA. that
\nB. as
\nC. so
\nD. very
\n22. The committee has anticipated the problems that ____ in the road construction project.
\nA. arise
\nB. will arise
\nC. arose
\nD. have arisen
\n23. The student said there were a few points in the essay he ____ impossible to comprehend.
\nA. had found
\nB. finds
\nC. has found
\nD. would find
\n24. He would have finished his college education, but he ____ to quit and find a job to support his family.
\nA. had had
\nB. has
\nC. had
\nD. would have
\n25. The research requires more money than ____.
\nA. have been put in
\nB. has been put in
\nC. being put in
\nD. to be put in
\n26. Overpopulation poses a terrible threat to the human race. Yet it is probably ____ a threat to the human race than environmental destruction.
\nA. no more
\nB. not more
\nC. even more
\nD. much more
\n27. It is not uncommon for there ____ problems of communication between the old and the young.
\nA. being
\nB. would be
\nC. be
\nD. to be
\n28. ____ at in his way, the situation does not seem so desperate.
\nA. Looking
\nB. Looked
\nC. Being looked
\nD. To look
\n29. It is absolutely essential that William ____ his study in spite of some learning difficulties.
\nA. will continue
\nB. continued
\nC. continue
\nD. continues
\n30. The painting he bought at the street market the other day was a _____ forgery.
\nA. man-made
\nB. natural
\nC. crude
\nD. real
\nPart 2: Reading Comprehension. \uff0840 P\uff09
\nPassage A
\nOn New Year\u2019s Day, 50,000 inmates in Kenyan jails went without lunch. This was not some mass hunger strike to highlight poor living conditions. It was an extraordinary humanitarian gesture: the money that would have been spent on their lunches went to the charity Food Aid to help feed an estimated 3. 5 million Kenyans who, because of a severe drought, are threatened with starvation. The drought is big news in Africa, affecting huge areas of east Africa and the Horn. If you are reading this in the west, however, you may not be aware of it\u2014the media is not interested in old stories. Even if you do know about the drought, you may not be aware that it is devastating one group of people disproportionately: the pastoralists. There are 20 million nomadic or semi-nomadic herders in this region, and they are fast becoming some of the poorest people in the continent. Their plight encapsulates Africa\u2019s perennial problem with drought and famine.
\nHow so? It comes down to the reluctance of governments, aid agencies and foreign lenders to support the herders\u2019 traditional way of life. Instead they have tended to try to turn them into commercial ranchers or agriculturalists, even though it has been demonstrated time and again that pastoralists are well adapted to their harsh environments, and that moving livestock according to the seasons or climatic changes makes their methods far more viable than agriculture in sub-Saharan drylands.
\nFurthermore, African pastoralist systems are often more productive, in terms of protein and cash per hectare, than Australian, American and other African ranches in similar climatic conditions. They make a substantial contribution to their countries\u2019 national economies. In Kenya, for example, the turnover of the pastoralist sector is worth $800 million per year. In countries such as Burkina Faso, Eritrea and Ethiopia, hides from pastoralists\u2019 herds make up over 10 per cent of export earnings. Despite this productivity, pastoralists still starve and their animals perish when drought hits. One reason is that only a trickle of the profits goes to the herders themselves; the lion\u2019s share is pocketed by traders. This is partly because the herders only sell much of their stock during times of drought and famine, when they need the cash to buy food, and the terms of trade in this situation never work in their favour. Another reason is the lack of investment in herding areas.
\nFunding bodies such as the World Bank and-USAID tried to address some of the problems in the 1960s, investing millions of dollars in commercial beef and dairy production. It didn\u2019t work. Firstly, no one bothered to consult the pastoralists about what they wanted. Secondly, rearing livestock took precedence over human progress. The policies and strategies of international development agencies more or less mirrored the thinking of their colonial predecessors. They were based on two false assumptions: that pastoralism is primitive and inefficient, which led to numerous failed schemes aimed at converting herders to modern ranching models; and that Africa\u2019s drylands can support commercial ranching. They cannot. Most of Africa\u2019s herders live in areas with unpredictable weather systems that are totally unsuited to commercial ranching.
\nWhat the pastoralists need is support for their traditional lifestyle. Over the past few years, funders and policy-makers have been starting to get the message. One example is intervention by governments to ensure that pastoralists get fair prices for their cattle when they sell them in times of drought, so that they can afford to buy fodder for their remaining livestock and cereals to keep themselves and their families alive\uff08the problem in African famines is not so much a lack of food as a lack of money to buy it\uff09. Another example is a drought early-warning system run by the Kenyan government and the World Bank that has helped avert livestock deaths.
\nThis is all promising, but more needs to be done. Some African governments still favour forcing pastoralists to settle. They should heed the latest scientific research demonstrating the productivity of traditional cattle-herding. Ultimately, sustainable rural development in pastoralist areas will depend on increasing trade, so one thing going for them is the growing demand for livestock products: there will likely be an additional 2 billion consumers worldwide by 2020, the vast majority in developing countries. To ensure that pastoralists benefit, it will be crucial to give them a greater say in local policies. Other key tasks include giving a greater say to women, who play critical roles in livestock production. The rich world should pay proper attention to the plight of the pastoralists. Leaving them dependent on foreign food aid is unsustainable and will lead to more resentment, conflict, environmental degradation and malnutrition. It is in the rich world\u2019s interests to help out.
\n01. Which of the following CANNOT be concluded from the passage?
\nA. Forcing Africa\u2019s nomadic herders to become ranchers will save them from drought.
\nB. The difference between pastoralist and agriculturalist is vital to the African people.
\nC. The rich world should give more support to the African people to overcome drought.
\nD. Environmental degradation should be the major concern in developing Africa\u2019s pastoralism.
\n02. The word \u201cencapsulates\u201d in the sentence \u201cTheir plight encapsulates Africa\u2019s perennial problem with drought and famine.\u201d\uff08para. l\uff09 can be replaced by ____.
\nA. concludes.
\nB. involves.
\nC. represents.
\nD. aggravates.
\n03. What is the author\u2019s attitude toward African drought and traditional lifestyle of pastoralism?
\nA. Neutral and indifferent.
\nB. Sympathetic and understanding.
\nC. Critical and vehement.
\nD. Subjective and fatalistic.<\/p>\n
\nA. have an objective view of the situation in Africa
\nB. understand the unpredictable weather systems there
\nC. feel themselves superior in decision making
\nD. care about the development of the local people
\n05. The author\u2019s main purpose in writing this article is ____.
\nA. to evaluate the living conditions of Kenyan pastoralists
\nB. to give suggestions on the support of the traditional pastoralism in Africa
\nC. to illustrate the difference between commercial ranching and pastoralism
\nD. to criticize the colonial thinking of western aid agencies
\nPassage B
\nCivil-Liberties advocates reeling from the recent revelations on surveillance had something else to worry about last week: the privacy of the billions of search queries made on sites like Google, AOL, Yahoo and Microsoft. As part of a long-running court case, the government has asked those companies to turn over information on its users\u2019 search behavior. All but Google have handed over data, and now the Department of Justice\uff08DOJ\uff09 has moved to compel the search giant to turn over the goods.
\nWhat makes this case different is that the intended use of the information is not related to national security, but the government\u2019s continuing attempt to police Internet pornography. In 1998, Congress passed the Child Online Protection Act\uff08COPA\uff09, but courts have blocked its implementation due to First Amendment concerns. In its appeal, the DOJ wants to prove how easy it is to inadvertently stumble upon pore. In order to conduct a controlled experiment\u2014to be performed by a UC Berkeley professor of statistics\u2014the DOJ wants to use a large sample of actual search terms from the different search engines. It would then use those terms to do its own searches, employing the different kinds of filters each search engine offers, in an attempt to quantify how often \u201cmaterial that is harmful to minors\u201d might appear. Google contends that since it is not a party to the case, the government has not right to demand its proprietary information to perform its test. \u201cWe intend to resist their motion vigorously,\u201d said Google attorney Nicole Wong.
\nDOJ spokesperson Charles Miller says that the government is requesting only the actual search terms, and not anything that would link the queries to those who made them. \uff08The DOJ is also demanding a list of a million Web sites that Google indexes to determine the degree to which objectionable sites are searched. \uff09 Originally, the government asked for a treasure trove of all searches made in June and July 2005; the request has been scaled back to one week\u2019s worth of search queries.
\nOne oddity about the DOJ\u2019s strategy is that the experiment could conceivably sink its own case. If the built-in filters that each search engine provides are effective in blocking porn sites, the government will have wound up proving what the opposition has said all along\u2014you don\u2019t need to suppress speech to protect minors on the Net. \u201cWe think that our filtering technology does a good job protecting minors from inadvertently seeing adult content,\u201d says Ramez Naam, group program manager of MSN Search.
\nThough the government intends to use these data specifically for its COPA-related test, it\u2019s possible that the information could lead to further investigations and, perhaps, subpoenas to find out who was doing the searching. \u201cWhat if certain search terms indicated that people were contemplating terrorist actions or other criminal activities?\u201d Says the DOJ\u2019s Miller, \u201cI\u2019m assuming that if something raised alarms, we would hand it over to the proper authorities.\u201d Privacy advocates fear that if the government request is upheld, it will open the door to further government examination of search behavior. One solution would be for Google to stop storing the information, but the company hopes to eventually use the personal information of consenting customers to improve search performance. \u201cSearch is a window into people\u2019s personalities,\u201d says Kurt Opsahl, an Electronic Frontier Foundation attorney. \u201cThey should be able to take advantage of the Internet without worrying about Big Brother looking over their shoulders.\u201d
\n01. When the American government asked Google, AOL, Yahoo and Microsoft to turn over information on its users\u2019 search behavior, the major intention is ____.
\nA. to protect national security
\nB. to help protect personal freedom
\nC. to monitor Internet pornography
\nD. to implement the Child Online Protection Act
\n02. Google refused to turn over \u201cits proprietary information\u201d\uff08para. 2\uff09 required by DOJ as it believes that ____.
\nA. it is not involved in the court case
\nB. users\u2019 privacy is most important
\nC. the government has violated the First Amendment
\nD. search terms is the company\u2019s business secret
\n03. The phrase \u201cscaled back to\u201d in the sentence \u201cthe request has been scaled back to one week\u2019s worth of search queries\u201d\uff08para. 3\uff09 can be replaced by ____.
\nA. maximized to
\nB. minimized to
\nC. returned to
\nD. reduced to
\n04. In the sentence \u201cOne oddity about the DOJ\u2019s strategy is that the experiment could conceivably sink its own case.\u201d\uff08para. 4\uff09, the expression \u201csink its own case\u201d most probably means that ____.
\nA. counterattack the opposition
\nB. lead to blocking of porn sites
\nC. provide evidence to disprove the case
\nD. give full ground to support the case<\/p>\n
\nA. a friend or relative showing much concern
\nB. a colleague who is much more experienced
\nC. a dominating and all-powerful ruling power
\nD. a benevolent and democratic organization<\/p>\n
\nPassage A
\nMillions of elderly Germans received a notice from the Health & Social Security Ministry earlier this month that struck a damaging blow to the welfare state. The statement informed them that their pensions were being cut. The reductions come as a stop-gap measure to control Germany\u2019s ballooning pension crisis. Not surprisingly, it was an unwelcome change for senior citizens such as Sabine Wetzel, a 67-year-old retired bank teller, who was told her state pension would be cut by $12. 30, or 1% to $1,156. 20 a month. \u201cIt was a real shock,\u201d she says. \u201cMy pension had always gone up in the past.\u201d
\nThere\u2019s more bad news on the way. On Mar. 11, Germany\u2019s lower house of Parliament passed a bill gradually cutting state pensions\u2014which have been rising steadily since World War II\u2014from 53% of average wages now to 46% by 2020. And Germany is not alone. Governments across Western Europe are racing to curb pension benefits. In Italy, the government plans to raise the minimum retirement age from 57 to 60, while France will require that civil servants put in 40 years rather than 37. 5 to qualify for a full pension. The reforms are coming despite tough opposition from unions, leftist politicians, and pensioners\u2019 groups.
\nThe explanation is simple: Europeans are living longer and having fewer children. By 2030 there will only be two workers per pensioner, compared with four in 2000. With fewer young workers paying into the system, cuts are being made to cover a growing shortfall. The gap between money coming in and payments going out could top $10 billion this year in Germany alone. \u201cIn the future, a state pension alone will no longer be enough to maintain the living standards employees had before they retired,\u201d says German Health & Social Security Minister Ulla Schmidt. Says Italian Finance Minister Giulio Tremonti: \u201cThe welfare state is producing too few cradles and too few graves.\u201d
\nOf course, those population trends have been forecast for years. Some countries, such as Britain and the Netherlands, have responded by making individuals and their employers assume more of the responsibility for pensions. But many Continental governments dragged their feet. Now, the rapid runup in costs is finally forcing them to act. State-funded pension payments make up around 12% of gross domestic product in Germany and France and 15% in Italy\u2014two percentage points more than 20 years ago. Pensions account for an average 21% of government spending across the European Union. The U. S. Social Security system, by contrast, consumes just 4.8% of GDP. The rising cost is having serious repercussions on key European nations\u2019 commitments to fiscal restraint. \u201cGovernments have no choice but to make pension reform a priority,\u201d says Antonio Cabral, deputy director of the European Commission\u2019s Directorate General for Economic & Financial Affairs.
\nJust as worrisome is the toll being exacted on the private sector, corporate contributions to state pension systems\u2014which make up 19. 5% of total gross pay in Germany\u2014add to Europe\u2019s already bloated labor costs. That, in turn, blunts manufacturers\u2019 competitiveness and keeps unemployment rates high. According to the Institute of German Economics in Cologne, benefit costs reached a record 41. 7% of gross wages in Germany last year, compared with 37.4% a decade before. French cement manufacturer Lafarge says pension cost of $121 million contributed to a 9% fall in operating profits last year.
\nTo cope, Germany and most of its EU partners are using tax breaks to encourage employees to put money into private pension schemes. But even if private pensions become more popular, European governments will have to increase minimum retirement ages and reduce public pensions. While today\u2019s seniors complain about reduced benefits, the next generation of retirees may look back on their parents\u2019 pension checks with envy.<\/p>\n
\nParaphrase Italian Finance Minister Giulio Tremonti\u2019s statement \u201cThe welfare state is producing too few cradles and too few graves\u201d? What is implied by the last sentence of the passage \u201cWhile today\u2019s seniors complain about reduced benefits, the next generation of retirees may look back on their parents\u2019 pension checks with envy\u201d?<\/p>\n
\nIn the old days, it was all done with cakes. For Marcel Proust, it was a visit to Mother\u2019s for tea and madeleines that provided the access to \u201cthe vast structure of recollection\u201d that was to become his masterpiece on memory and nostalgia, \u201cRemembrance of Past Things.\u201d These days, it\u2019s not necessary to evoke the past: you can\u2019t move without tripping over it.
\nIn an age zooming forward technologically, why are all the backward glances? The Oxford English Dictionary\u2019s first definition of nostalgia reads: \u201cacute longing for familiar surroundings; severe homesickness.\u201d With the speed of computers doubling every 18 months, and the net doubling in size in about half that, no wonder we\u2019re aching for familiar surroundings. Since the cornerstone of the Information Age is change, anything enduring becomes precious. \u201cPeople are looking for something authentic,\u201d says McLaren. Trouble is, nostalgia has succumbed to trends in marketing, demographics and technology. \u201cNostalgia ain\u2019t what it used to be,\u201d says Michael J. Wolf, senior partner at Booz-Allen & Hamilton in New York. \u201cThese are the new good old days.\u201d
\nBaby boomers form the core of the nostalgia market. The boomers, defined by American demographers as those born between 1946 and 1964, are living long and prosperous lives. In both Europe and America, they remain the Holy Grail for admen, and their past has become everyone\u2019s present. In a study on \u201centertainment imprinting,\u201d two American marketing professors, Robert Schindler and Morris Holbrook, asked people ranging in age from 16 to 86 which popular music from the past they liked best. People\u2019s favorite songs, they found, tended to be those that were popular when they were about 24, with their affection for pop songs diminishing on either side of that age. Doubtless Microsoft knows about entertainment imprinting, or at least nostalgia. The company hawks its latest Explorer to the strains of Simon and Garfunkel\u2019s \u201cHomeward Bound,\u201d just as it launched Windows 98 to the tune of \u201cStart Me up\u201d by the Rolling Stones. Boomers remember both tunes from their 20s.
\nIf boomers are one market that values memories, exiles are another. According to the International Organization of Migration, more than 150 million people live today in a country other than the one where they were born\u2014double the number that did so in 1965. This mass movement has sources as dire as tyranny and as luxurious as the freedoms of an EU passport. But exiles and refugees share one thing: homes left behind. Type in \u201cnostalgia\u201d on the search engine Google, and one of the first sites that pop up is the nostalgia page of The Iranian, an online site for Iran\u2019s exiles, most of whom fled after 1978\u2019s Islamic revolution. Perhaps the savviest exploitation of nostalgia has been the secondhand-book site alibris. com, which features stories of clients\u2019 rediscovering long-lost books on it. One John Mason Mings writes of the glories of finding a book with information on \u201cKickapoo Joy Juice,\u201d ad dreaded medicine of his youth. A Pennsylvanian waxes over alibris\u2019s recovery of his first-grade primer\u201d Down cherry Street.\u201d The Net doesn\u2019t merely facilitate nostalgia\u2014it promotes it. Web-based auction houses have helped jump-start markets for vintage items, form marbles to Apple Macintoshes.
\nCutting-edge technology, designed to be transient, has even bred its own instanostalgia. Last year a $666 Apple I went for $18,000 to a British collector at a San Francisco auction. \u201cHistoric! Microsoft Multiplan for Macintosh\u201d crows one item on eBay\u2019s vintage Apple section. Surf to The Net Nostalgia Quiz to puzzle over questions like \u201cIn the old days, Altavista used to have which one of these URLs?\u201d
\nThose who don\u2019t remember their history are condemned to repeat it. Or so entertainment moguls hope, as they market \u201c70s TV hits like \u201cCharlie\u2019s Angels\u201d and \u201cScooby Doo,\u201d out next year, to a generation that can\u2019t remember them the first time round. If you\u2019ve missed a Puff Daddy track or a \u201cSopranos\u201d episode, panic not. The megahits of today are destined to be the golden oldies of 2020, says Christopher Nurko of the branding consultant FutureBrand. \u201cI guarantee you, Madonna\u2019s music will be used to sell everything,\u201d he says. \u201cGod help me, I hope it\u2019s not selling insurance.\u201d It could be. When we traffic in the past, nothing\u2019s sacred.
\nQuestions
\nExplain the beginning sentence \u201cIn the old days, it was all done with cakes.\u201d What is the other big group besides baby boomers which values memories? What do these people share? What is \u201cnostalgia market\u201d? What do they sell in the nostalgia market?<\/p>\n
\nPlease reflect on the following opinion and write an essay of about 400 words elaborating your view with a well-defined title.
\nSome people believe the key of the reform in the education system is a well-shared awareness that educations is there, instead of simply offering the knowledge important to the students, to improve the students in an all-round way, and especially to guide them to a careful pondering over such fundamental issues as life itself and social responsibility. An undue emphasis on knowledge-education and the resultant ignorance over the guidance to the students to a proper understanding of life will bring us nothing but a large number of \u201cmemorizing machines\u201d. We can never expect a group of young people well prepared for the real social life.<\/p>\n