首页
登录
职称英语
Children are a relatively modem invention. Until a few hundred years ago the
Children are a relatively modem invention. Until a few hundred years ago the
游客
2023-07-29
21
管理
问题
Children are a relatively modem invention. Until a few hundred years ago they did not exist. In medieval and Renaissance painting you see pint-sized men and women, wearing grown-up clothes and grown-up expressions, performing grown-up tasks. Children did not exist because the family as we know it had not evolved.
Children today not only exist; they have taken more attention, in no place more than in America, and at no time more than now. It is always Kids’ Country here. Our civilization is child-centered, child-obsessed. A kid’s body is our physical ideal. In Kids’ Country we do not permit middle age. Thirty is promoted over 50, but 30 knows that soon his time to be overtaken will come.
We are the first society in which parents expect to learn from their children. Such a topsy-turvy (颠倒)situation has come about at least in part because, unlike the rest of the world, ours is an immigrant society, and for immigrants the only hope is in the kids. In the Old Country, that is Europe, hope was in the father, and how much wealth he could accumulate and pass along to his children. In the growth pattern of America and its ever-expanding frontier, the young man was ever advised to go west; the father was ever inheriting from his son. Kids’ Country may be the inevitable result.
Kids’ Country is not all bad. America is the greatest country in the world to grow up in because it is Kids’ Country. We not only wear kids’ clothes and eat kids’ food, we dream kids’ dreams and make them come true. It was, after all, a boys’ game to go to the moon.
If in the old days children did not exist, it seems equally true today that adults, as a class, have begun to disappear, condemning all of us to remain boys and girls forever, jogging and doing push-ups against eternity. [br] In the third paragraph, "the Old Country" refers to ______.
选项
A、the Europe
B、the America
C、the original part of America
D、the Kids’ Country
答案
A
解析
从第三段第二句话“In the Old Country, that is Europe,…”可以,知道正确答案是A。句中的“that is…”,是对前面“Old Country”的解释。
转载请注明原文地址:https://tihaiku.com/zcyy/2878579.html
相关试题推荐
Childrenhavebeensaidtohavebrain-injuredchildsyndrome,hyperactive(极度活跃的)
Thereasonsomechildrenarebackwardinspeakingtodayisthat______.[br]Whi
MorethanfortywomenhavebeenkilledinthewarinIraq.Hundredsofothersha
[originaltext]TheAmericantraditionofsendingchildrentosummercampbega
[originaltext]TheAmericantraditionofsendingchildrentosummercampbega
CarcrashesaretheleadingcauseofinjuryanddeathamongU.S.children,andt
CarcrashesaretheleadingcauseofinjuryanddeathamongU.S.children,andt
CarcrashesaretheleadingcauseofinjuryanddeathamongU.S.children,andt
WithmoreChinesechildrencomingtostudyinSingapore,auniquecommunityofw
WithmoreChinesechildrencomingtostudyinSingapore,auniquecommunityofw
随机试题
Withallthetoolsavailabletomodernmedicine--thebloodtestsandM.R.I.’
Classifiedadvertisingisthatadvertisingwhichisgroupedincertainsecti
甲汽车专卖店购入小汽车12辆,根据车辆购置税法律制度的规定,下行为中,应当由甲汽
弱小生命之间往往是相互同情的,相互依存的;强大生命之间则是另一种景象,他们之间彼
一般情况下借款人年龄越大,个人住房贷款期限( )。A.越长 B.越短 C.
教学智慧的生成要素不包括()。A.教学经验的积累 B.教学经历 C.教学
有关孕激素的作用,下列叙述正确的是()。A.促进子宫发育 B.促使乳糜管增生
简述新课程改革中教师角色将发生哪些变化?
期货公司应当缴纳期货投资者保障基金,但在特定情况下经批准可以暂停缴纳。这些特定情
张某向杨某借款30万元,并以自有的汽车设定了抵押。同时,张某还委托赵某以其汽车设
最新回复
(
0
)