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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
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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] Which of the following is true according to the passage?
选项
A、America is more of Kids’ Country than the other countries in the world.
B、Kids’ Country was taking shape in America.
C、America is a Kids’ Country.
D、It is not easy for the adults to live in America.
答案
A
解析
从第二段第一句话可以知道,孩子们不仅存在,而且美国比其他任何地方,现在比以往任何时候都重视孩子的存在。因此A是正确答案。选项B在文章中没有具体体现。选项C太绝对,其不正确的另一个依据是在文章最后一段作者表明了这样的观点“…it seems equally true today that adults,as a class,have begun to disappear,…”。也就是说,现在还不能把美国称作是孩子王国。
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