问答题 Listen to the following passage. Altogether the passage will be read to you four times. During the first reading, which will be read at normal speed, listen and try to understand the meaning. For the second and third readings the passage will be read sentence by sentence, or phrase by phrase with intervals of 15 seconds. The last reading will be done at normal speed again and during this time you should check your work. You will then be given 2 minutes to check through your work once more.
Please write the whole passage.

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The Best Age to Be

What is age? /Age can be described as that period of time /that a person has lived or is expected to live. /It can be thought of in three main periods. /Childhood is a time when there are few responsibilities to make life difficult. /Adulthood is when the young person has reached maturity, /having fully grown, both physically and mentally. /Old age to some is the worst age to be, /especially to those who feel that they are useless and unwanted. /With old age should come wisdom and the ability to give wise advice to help others. /How often one hears children wishing they were grown up, /and old people wishing they were young again. /Each age has its pleasure and its pains, /and the happiest person is the one who enjoys what each age gives him /without wasting his time in useless regrets.