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There are places in the world where people are alleged (被认为) to live much longer and remain more vigorous in old age than in mos

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问题     There are places in the world where people are alleged (被认为) to live much longer and remain more vigorous in old age than in most modern societies. I have visited the best known of these regions, all relatively remote and mountainous.
    A striking feature common to all three cultures is the high social status of the aged. Each of the very elderly persons I saw lived with family and close relatives—often an extensive household—and occupied a central and privileged position within this group. The sense of family continuity is strong.
    There is also a sense of usefulness. Even those well over 100 for the most part continue to perform essential duties and contribute to the economy of the community. These duties included weeding in the fields, feeding the poultry (家禽), tending flocks, picking tea, washing the laundry, cleaning house, or caring for grandchildren, all on a regular daily basis.
    In addition, the aged are esteemed for the wisdom that is thought to derive from long experience, and their word in the family group is generally law.
    In none of the three communities is there any forced retirement age, and the elderly are not shelved, as occurs in most of our industrialized society. Khfaf Lasuria, the former tea picker, had retired only two years before I met her. When I asked Seliac Butba, age 121, if he was helping in the construction of a new house springing up next to his own, he responded, "Of course, they can’t do without me. "
    Many of the centenarians emphasized the importance of being independent and free to do the things they enjoyed and wanted to do, and of maintaining a placid (平静的) state of mind free from worry or emotional strain.
    "Now everywhere people don’t live so long because they don’t live a free life," commented Sonia Kvedzenia of Atara, age 109. "They worry more and don’t do what they want. " Gabriel Chapnian, 117, of Gulripshi expressed a similar thought when told that few Americans attain his age. His response: "Hmm...too literate. "
    Expectation of longevity may also be important. In America the traditional life-span is three score and ten years. But when we asked the young people of Abkhazia how long they expected to live, they generally said, "To a hundred". Dr Georgi Kaprashvili of Gulripshi confirmed that the public has the notion that the normal life-span of man is 100 years. For exaggeration, when proposing toasts, they say 300 years, but everyone expects to be 100.
All the aged the author saw lived______.
选项 A、highly respected
B、with their families and relatives
C、with a sense of usefulness
D、all of the above
答案D
解析 本题问作者见到的老人都过着什么样的生活。通读一下文章中相关的部分，如文章第二段、第三段和第四段指出，这三个具有不同文化的地区的共同的鲜明的特点是：老年人都享有很高的社会地位。我所见到的每个老人都和家人及近亲生活在一起，通常是在一个大家庭中。这些老人在家庭中占据着中心的、特权的地位。这些家庭的辈分观念很强，这些老人觉得自己仍然有用、甚至那些一百好几十岁的人仍然还继续做必要的工作，为社区的经济做贡献。另外，老年人还因具有被认为是从长期经验中积累起来的智慧而受到尊敬，在家庭里，他们的话通常就像法律一样。因此，本题的正确答案应是D。
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