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Children are a relatively modern invention. Until a few hundred years ago th

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问题     Children are a relatively modern invention. Until a few hundred years ago they look like adult, 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 over 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-aged. 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 situation has come to abort 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 at 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] The sentence " In Kids Country we do not permit middle-aged" underlined in Paragraph 2 means that middle-aged______.
选项 A、are not permitted to live in America
B、are not welcome in America
C、become old too quickly
D、have already been overtaken by children
答案 B
解析 语义题型见第二段第三至第六句：Our civilization is child-centered，child-obsessed．A kid’s body is our physical ideal．In kids Country we do not permit middle-aged．Thirty is promoted over 50，but 30 knows that soon his time to be overtaken will come．(我们的文明是以孩子为中心，为孩子们所着迷的。孩子们是我们心中的理想。在孩子们的王国中不允许有中年人。三十岁被升格为五十多岁，但三十多岁的人知道不久他被取代的时代就要到来了。)因此这句话的意思是说中年人在美国不受欢迎，B为答案。
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