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  3. It was curious how often sympathy for the old and infirm takes a form which

It was curious how often sympathy for the old and infirm takes a form which

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问题     It was curious how often sympathy for the old and infirm takes a form which actually【S1】______them. Their friends, or mere 【S2】______, wishing to show good will, paw them, sometimes leaning forward to rearrange their neckwear, pulling at their shawl, touching their hair or【S3】______their faces — things they would never presume to do, unasked, to one of their  【S4】______.
    An equally humiliating habit of many people who arc quite【S5】______of being rude is to talk about old people in front of them, as if they were not there, discussing their health, or making【S6】______remarks on the lines of "Well, nurse, has she been a good girl today?"
    It is now【S7】______accepted that children should be encouraged to do as much as they can for themselves in order to develop their brains and muscles, but so few people today seem to have time to allow the elderly the same means of keeping their minds and muscles active. With what they believe to be unselfish kindness they perform【S8】______services for them that they would be much better left to do, even with a struggle, for themselves.
    Convenient flats, well-run homes, "motherly" visitors, or organized【S9】______cannot make up for the fundamental need which must be satisfied— the need to【S10】______to the end of life human dignity and the respect of one’s fellows.

A) playful             B) retain             C) unconscious            D) installments
E) innumerable         F) naughty            G) contemporaries         H) patting
I) contain             J) entertainments     K) universally            L) clapping
M) colleagues          N) humiliates         O) acquaintances [br] 【S2】
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答案 O
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