2024年12月16日 China Daily时政类语篇型填空专项训练（子女面临应对父母老年抑郁症的现实）（上） Families face realities of dealing with old age depression Passage 1 1. the age of 74, Wang Youlin had never imagined he would suffer 2. depression. His life, once filled with laughter, 3. (adventurous) and the joy of watching his children grow 4. , began to unravel quietly in the months following his retirement. A formerly active man, he had been a basketball coach, shaping young minds and building 5. (last) friendships with his students. 6. over time, something changed. The first signs were subtle. Wang, who usually 7. (get) up at six in the morning, began to sleep later and later. His appetite dwindled, and the meals he once enjoyed now seemed like chewing sawdust. He would sit at the table, staring at his plate, too weak 8. (eat). Days blurred into each other, and the vibrant man who had once tackled the world with 9. (enthusiastic) now 10. (spend) hours in silence, his thoughts weighed down by a fog he couldn't shake. Passage 2 Wang's family began to notice the 1. (change). His daughter, Wang Lin, who lives and works in Beijing, recalls the transformation with a heavy heart. "It wasn't just the lack 2. energy. " My dad used 3. (tell) jokes, laugh at old movies, and even dance around the house 4. he was in a good mood. But one day, it all 5. (stop)." Her father, mother and 6. (old) brother live in her hometown of Jinan in Shandong province. "I usually go home once a month as Jinan and Beijing are close. I remember when I first 7. (see) my father staring 8. the window. His face was blank and his eyes 9. (lose) their sparkle. Once standing at an imposing 1.9 meters, he was a towering figure. But his frame seemed to have withered, leaving him unusually thin and fragile. And that's when I 10. (know) something was wrong," she recalled. Passage 3 Over time, her father had 1. (withdraw) from the activities he once loved. Reading, fishing, and cooking became 2. (burden). He refused 3. (invite) to family gatherings and would often sit alone in his favorite chair, a cup of tea 4. (grow) cold beside him. "He seemed lost," Wang Lin said. "It was like we 5. (watch) him disappear 6. front of our eyes," she said, adding the 7. (hard) part was not knowing how 8. (help) him. At first, the family blamed his lack of energy and sleep disturbances 9. the natural decline that accompanies aging. But when her father started to refuse food, and retreated into long periods of silence, Wang Lin became 10. (worry). His body grew frail, not because of physical illness, but because he had no interest in eating. Passage 4 After 1. (month) of watching her father deteriorate, she insisted 2. taking him to the hospital in Beijing. The diagnosis was a shock, he had a major depressive disorder. "I never 3. (expect) that my father would 4. (diagnose) with depression. Some of my colleagues suffer from the illness 5. they are young, in their 20s 6. 30s," said Wang Lin. At the hospital, she ... ...
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