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American Youth Issues For years now, we’ve heard the
American Youth Issues For years now, we’ve heard the
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American Youth Issues
For years now, we’ve heard the
gripes
by and about millennials. Their plight seems so very 21st century: the unstable careers, the confusion of technologies, the delayed romance, parenthood and maturity.
Many of the same concerns and challenges faced the children of the industrial revolution, as the booms and busts of America’s wild 19th century tore apart the accepted order. These Americans were born into an earthquake. During the 1800s America’s population exploded from 5 million to 75 million. The nation went from a rural backwater to an industrial behemoth — producing more than Britain, Germany and France combined — but every decade the economy crashed.
For rootless 20-somethings, each national shock felt intimate, rattling their love lives and careers. Many young adults could not accept that their personal struggles were just ripples of a large-scale social dislocation. So each New Year’s, they blamed themselves.
Romance worried them above all. Today some fret about the changing institution of marriage, but we are used to such adjustments; 19th-century Americans were blind-sided when the average age of marriage rose precipitously to 26 — a level America didn’t return to until 1990. In a world where life expectancy hovered below age 50, delaying marriage until 26 was revolutionary.
While some looked for love, others looked for jobs. Before the modern era, young people found work within family networks, laboring at home or on a farm. The industrial economy changed that.
The good news was that there were more jobs; the bad news was that they were isolating and temporary. Work now meant small factories or lumber camps or railroad crews of strangers. For young people this meant
chronic
instability. A young man might brag about his new job one week and find himself begging for money from his father the next.
While 19th-century young adults faced many of the anxieties that trouble 23-year-olds today, they found novel solutions. The first was to move. Young men and women were notoriously transient, heading out on "wander years" when life at home seemed stalled. Another solution was to find like-minded young adults to share their baffling discouragements and buoyant hopes. Nineteenth-century young people were compulsive joiners. Political movements, literary societies, religious organizations, dancing clubs and even gangs proliferated. The men and women who joined cared about the stated cause, but also craved the community these groups created. They realized that while instability was inevitable, isolation was voluntary.
Today’s young adults are constantly rebuked for not following the life cycle popular in 1960. But a quick look at earlier eras shows just how unusual mid-20th-century young people were. A society in which people married out of high school and held the same job for 50 years is the historical outlier.
Americans considered young adulthood the most dangerous part of life, and struggled to find a path to maturity. Those who did best tended to accept change, not to berate themselves for breaking with tradition. Young adults might do the same today. Stop worrying about how they appear from the skewed perspective of the mid-20 th century and find a new home, a new stability and a new community in the new year. [br] Nineteenth-century young people joined societies and organizations for the following reasons EXCEPT______.
选项
A、they wanted to achieve their political or aesthetical goals
B、they wanted to be part of a community
C、they wanted to escape loneliness
D、they wanted to unite and fight for more stable jobs
答案
D
解析
是非排除题型,答案是D。本题考查19世纪年轻人加入社团组织的原因。需把握第八段信息。从cared about the stated cause一句可知,A选项陈述正确。从craved the community these groups created一句可知,“他们融入某个群体”陈述正确。从while instability was inevitable,isolation was voluntary一句可知,“他们想逃避孤独感”陈述正确。D选项“他们想联合起来为获得更稳定的工作机会而斗争”为原文没有的内容。本题核心:根据题干中joined societies and organizations这一线索词锁定文中信息点,逐项排除得出选择项。
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