Very old people do raise moral problem for almost everyone who comes into touch with them. Their values—this can’t be repeated t

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问题     Very old people do raise moral problem for almost everyone who comes into touch with them. Their values—this can’t be repeated too often—are not necessarily our values. Physical comfort, cleanness and order are not necessarily the most important for them. The social services from time to time find themselves faced with a flat with going-bad food covered with dust on the table, and an old person lying alone on bed, taking no notice of anything. Is it doing harm to personal freedom to insist that they go to live with some of their relatives so that they might be taken better care of? Some social workers are the ones who clean up the dust, thinking we are in danger of carrying this idea of personal freedom to the point where serious risks are being taken with the health and safety of the old.
    Indeed, the old can be easily hurt or harmed. The body is like a car: it needs more care as it gets older. You can carry this comparison right through to the provision of spare parts. But never forget that such operations are painful experiences, however good the results are. And at what point should you stop treating the old body? Is it right to try to push off death by using drugs to excite the forgetful old mind and to activate the old body, knowing that there is little hope? You cannot ask doctors or scientists to decide, because so long as they can see the technical opportunities, they will feel sure to have a try on the belief that while there’ s life, there’ s hope.
    When you talk to the old people, however, you are forced to the conclusion that whether age is happy or unpleasant depends less on money or on health than it does on your ability to have fun.
From Paragraph 1, we can infer that______.

选项 A、very old people enjoy living with their relatives
B、social services could have nothing to do with very old people
C、very old people prefer to live alone so that they can have more personal freedom
D、very old people are able to keep their rooms clean

答案C

解析 本题为推断题。利用排除法。第一段提到社会服务人员经常看到老人一个人躺在床上,桌上变质的食物布满灰尘。由此可以排除A、B和D。接着提出问题:如果坚持让他们和亲戚住在一起以便得到更好的照顾,这样做是否又在干涉他们的人身自由呢?由此可以推断老人更愿意一个人住,认为和亲戚住在一起失去了自由。故选C。
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