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ll that outlines instructions for endoflife care. (For example, parents can say if they want to be kept alive by artificial measures.) “It’ s invaluable for the kids, because it’ s hard to make those decisions for a parent,” says Jennifer Cona, an elder law attorney at Genser Dubow Genser amp。 ) Directions: In this section, you are going to read a passage with ten statements attached to it. Each statement contains information given in one of the paragraphs. Identify the paragraph from which the information is derived. You may choose a paragraph more than once. Each paragraph is marked with a letter. Answer the questions by marking the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2. Caring for elderly parents catches many unprepared [A ] Last July, Julie Baldocchi, s mother had a massive stroke and was paralyzed. Baldocchi suddenly had to bee a family caregiver, something that she wasnt prepared for. “I was flying by the seat of my pants,” says Baldocchi, an employment specialist in San Francisco. Both of her parents are 83, and she knew her father couldn’ t handle her mother’ s care. The hospital remended putting her mother in a nursing home. Baldocchi wasn’ t willing to do that. But moving her back into her parents’ home created other problems. Baldocchi, 48, is married and lives about a mile away from her parents. She has a fulltime job and has back problems that make it difficult for her to lift her mother. “I couldn’ t do it all,” she says. “But I didn’ t even know how to find help.” [B] With help from the Family Caregiver Alliance, she eventually hired a livein caregiver. “But even if you plan intellectually and legally, you’ re never ready for the emotional impact,” Baldocchi says. In the first two months after her mother’ s stroke, she lost about 30 pounds as stress mounted. More than 42 million Americans provide family caregiving for an adult who needs help with daily activities, according to a 2022 survey by the AARP. An additional million provided at least some care during the year. And many are unprepared. [C] While many parents lack an advance care directive, it’ s the most basic and important step they can take. The directive includes several parts, including: a durable power of attorney, which gives someone legal authority to make financial decisions on another’ s behalf。篇章后附有 10 個(gè)句子,每句一題。2022 年 12 月英語四級(jí)改革新題型模擬題(一) Part Ⅱ Listening Comprehension (30 minutes) Section C(復(fù)合式聽寫調(diào)整為單詞及 詞組聽寫,短文長度及難度不變。 ) Directions: In this section, you will hear a passage three times. When the passage is read for the first time, you should listen carefully for its general idea. When the passage is read for the second time, you are required to fill in the blanks with the exact words you have just heard. Finally, when t