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memories from the distant past.Sufferers are trapped forever in a bewildering past It is acutelyupsetting and tormenting.Many of the behavioral difficulties that I have seen in those withdementia relate to them feeling scared and confused that they are surrounded by strange people,even when they are surrounded by their family,because they have regressed back to decades ago.They look at their adult children confused and wonder who they could be because they think theirchildren are still toddlers.How does one deal with this?I have had countless families break down in tears in clinics,not knowing what to say or how to react as their loved one moves further and further away fromthem back into their distant past and they are left behind in the present The lies that doctors andnurses tel these patients are not big,elaborate lies-they are brief reassurances intended to comfortand allow the subject to be swiftly changed.It is,when done in the right way,kind andcompassionate.Sometimes,honesty is simply not the best policy.24.Why would the nurses lie to Mrs.Walton?A.To persuade her into taking medicine.B.To comfort her and change the subject.C.To stop her complaining about her husband.D.To bring her back to memories of old times.25.What can we infer from the passage?A.Mrs.Walton's husband suffered from dementia.B.Mrs.Walton's husband did not want to visit her.C.Mrs.Walton's husband had died when she was in the hospital.D.Mrs.Walton's husband was on a business trip so he could not make it26.Which of the following has the closest meaning to the underlined word in paragraph32A.Confusing.B.Frightening.C.Regretful.D.Painful27.What's the author's attitude towards doctors telling lies to patients?A.Supportive.B.NeutralC.Indifferent.D.CriticalCFifty years ago,astronauts traveled to space in rockets designed,built,and maintained byNASA and paid for by government funding.Today,the astronauts are often billionaires enjoying ajourney into low orbit on a rocket they paid for from their billion-dollar bank accounts.The change feels like a giant leap,but it makes sense,says Laura Seward Forczyk,founder ofAstralytical a space consulting company."More and more of modern civilization relies on space,"she says.Huge numbers of satellites orbit the planet connecting us to everything from cell phones toGPS to Netflix and there is big money in maintaining those systems."This doesn't get a lot ofheadlines typically,bur there are profit reasons why private companies want to go into space,"says Forczyk.And 85 private companies learn more about putting rockets and satellites into space,they reable to help the likes of NASA on their missions.That's important because NASA itself hasbecome financially constrained From its 1966 peak,where spending on the space race took up 4.4percent of the federal budget,that spending is now less than 0.5 percent of the country's totalbudget."NASA using commercial companies to build a lot of the hardware to do a lot of those