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写作
The best preparation for tomorrow is doing
your best today
对明天做好的准备就是今天做到最好
范文:
There is a famous saying that the best
preparation for tomorrow is to do good
work
today. Simple as the saying is, it informs us that
one doesn’t need to worry
about the future if
he can seize the moment.
It is
generally believed that taking immediate action is
of great importance. Doing
good work today
enables people to achieve their great goals step
by step. Assume
a college student who is
indulged in his wishful thinking of passing the
CET-6 exam
with a high score without any
efforts and hardwork,and he will be devastated to
accept the reality when he fails. The same
thing may be said of some grown-ups who
aspire
to gain fame and fortune but never bother to put
their splendid plans into
practice
immediately.
Therefore, by some
means or other we must take action to pursue our
goals.
It is necessary for us to aim high but
our behaviors should also deserve our dreams.
We are supposed to put our efforts into every
single day and never look down upon
those
little tasks. Only in this way can we fulfill our
dreams.
听力
Section A
Conversation One
Questions 1 to 4 are
based on the conversation you have just heard.
1. What do we learn about Anna Sanchez?
定位句:(1) Mrs. Anna Sanchez is a three-time
Olympic champion and author of the
new book To
the Edge Mrs. Sanchez,
2. What is the
woman’s book mainly about?
定位句:(2) The
book is about how science and technology has
helped to push humans
to the edge of their
physical abilities.
3. What has changed
in the past thousands of years?
定位句:(3) I
believe that while our bodies have not changed in
thousands of years,
what has changed is the
scientific knowledge.
4. What is
the man’s concern about the use of technology in
sports competitions?
定位句:(4) Is there any
concern that technology is giving some athletes an
unfair
advantage over others.
Conversation Two
Questions 5 to 8
are based on the conversation you have just heard.
5. What does the woman think is required
to be successful in international trade?
定位句:(5) Trends and demand come and go. So one
needs to be very flexible to succeed
in this
industry.
6. What does the woman say is
special about her way of doing trade?
定位句:(6) I even use the same container. It's a
very efficient way of conducting
trade.
7. What does the woman have in both Italy and
China?
定位句:(7) I have a warehouse in
Genova Italy and another in Shanghai.
8. What does the woman say makes furniture
marginally more profitable?
定位句:(8)
Furniture is marginally more profitable, mostly
because it enjoys lower
customs duties.
Section B
Passage One
Questions 9 to
11 are based on the passage you have just heard.
8. What does the passage say about humor
in the work place?
定位句:(9)Humor unlocks
the office prison because it lets adults bring
some of their
child-like spirit to the job.
9. What does the study by Howard Poleo
show?
定位句:(10)Poleo conducted the study
that proved humor can help workers excel at
routine production tasks.
11. What
can ask employees do in the humor room?
定位句:(11)Employees can take the doll
apart, as long as they put arms and legs
back
in place.
Passage two.
Questions 12
to 15 are based on the passage you have just
heard.
12. What does the speaker say has
aroused public interest?
定位句:(12)Public
interest was aroused by the latest discovery of a
changed gene
in an obese mice.
13.
What do we learn about the changed gene?
定位句:(13)Those with the changed gene may not
sense when they have eaten enough
or if they
have sufficient fatty tissue. And thus can't tell
when to stop eating.
14. What does
university of Vermont psychologist Esther off burn
say?
定位句:(14) This research indicates
that people really are born with a tendency
to
have a certain weight, just as they are to have a
particular skin color or height.
15. What
accounts for Americans obesity according to a
survey by the center for
disease
control?
定位句:(15)Such rapid change
underlines the role of environmental factors, like
the abundance of rich foods in Americans
overeating.
Section C
Recording One
Questions 16 to18 are based on the recording
you have just heard.
16. What quality do
men value most concerning friendship according to
a
questionnaire response?
定位句: (16)
Asked to consider the ingredients of close
friendship, women rated
these qualities above
all others, men assigned a lower priority to them
in favor
of similarity and interests (selected
by 77% of men),
17. What do women refer
to when speaking of close friendships?
定位句:(17) It is evident by their selections
that when women speak of close
friendships,
they're referring to emotional factors,
18. What may threaten a friendship for both
men and women?
定位句:(18) As for the
hazards of friendship, more than a few
relationships have
been shattered because of
cutthroat competition and feelings of betrayal.
This
applies to both men and women, but
unequally.
Recording Two
Questions 19 to 21 are based on the recording
you have just heard.
19. Where can many
of the best dinosaur specimens be found in North
America?
定位句:(19)Many of the best
specimens may be seen today at museums of natural
history
in the larger cities of the United
States and Canada.
20. What occurs to
many people when they see the massive bones in the
pit wall?
定位句: (20)Many people get the
idea from the massive bones in the pit wall that
some disaster such as a volcanic explosion or
a sudden flood killed a whole herd
of
dinosaurs in this area.
21. What does the
speaker suggest about the large number of dinosaur
bones found
in the pit?
定位句:
(21)The pit area is the large dinosaur graveyard,
not a place where they
died. Most of the
remains probably floated down on eastward flowing
river until they
were left on a shallow
sandbar.
Recording Three
Questions 22 to 25 are based on recording you
have just heard.
21. What have young
Americans been accused of?
定位句(22)Young
people in this country have been accused of not
caring for their
parents the way they would
have in the old country.
22. What does
the speakers say about old people in the United
States?
定位句:(23)old people have been
influenced by an American ideal of independence
and autonomy. So we live alone, perhaps on the
verge of starvation in time without
friends.
But we are independent.
23. What is
astonishing to the young mothers interviewed by
the speaker?
定位句:(24)They were
astonished to hear that in most of the world,
throughout most
of its history, families have
been three or four generation families living
under
the same roof.
25. What does
the speakers say older people try their best to
do?
定位句:(25)So in the end, older people
have to devote all their energies to not
being
a burden.
阅读
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36.C
piaget Believed that small children
37. J
The author and his colleagues
38.B
In the latter half of the
last century
39.A
Research conducted by Jane.
40.K
Our improved understanding of babies.
41. E
It has been found in recent
research
42.M
Scientists are
still debating.
43.H
the newer
research methods focus on
44.D
With the progress in psychology
45.L
Even though marked advances have
been made.
46.B.
They hold a
different view on stress from the popular one.
47.D
They apply extreme tactics.
48.A
They help him combat stress
from work.
49.C
It is something
everybody has to live with.
50.C
Its effect varies considerably
from person to person.
51.B
Hunting may also be asolution.
52.A
It keeps him pollution under control.
53.A
Over pollution is not an
issue.
54.C
Many birds and small
animals are being.
55.C
Coordinated efforts of hunter.
翻译
《三国演义》写于14世纪,是中国著名的历史小说。这部文学作品以三国时期的
历史为基
础,描写了从二世纪下半叶到三世纪下半叶魏、蜀、吴之间的战争。小说描写了近千个人物和无数的历史事件。虽然这些人物和事件大多是基于真实的历史,但它们都不同程度地被浪
漫化和戏
剧化了。《三国演义》是一部公认的文学巨著。自出版以来,这部小说吸引了一代
又一代的读者,对中国
文化产生了广泛而持久的影响。
The Romance of the Three
Kingdoms, which was written in the fourteenth
century,
is a famous historical novel in
China. Based on the history of the Three Kingdoms
period, this literary work describes the war
between Wei, Shu and Wu from the second
half
of the second century to the second half of the
third century. The novel depicts
nearly a
thousand characters and countless historical
events. Although most of these
characters and
events are based on the real history, they are
dramatized and
exaggerated to varying degrees.
The Romance of the Three Kingdoms is recognized as
a literary masterpiece. Since its publication,
this novel has attracted and deeply
influenced generations of readers. It also has
a widespread and lasting impact on
Chinese
history.
【对呀英语版】
六级写作解析
◆【题目】
主题:the best preparation for tomorrow is
doing best today
As we all know, the best
preparation for tomorrow is doing best today.
Since yesterday
was all history and tomorrow
is a mystery, today is all we actually have.
However,
there is a prevalent phenomenon that
a host of people are now paying less attention
to it. From my perspective, it is sensible for
everyone to give priority to doing
best today.
There are various reasons that can
account for this, and the following ones are the
most typical. In the first place, it is worth
mentioning that no individual can easily
get
access to success without taking immediate action.
When devoting ourselves to
the present task,
we can achieve our goals more efficiently. What is
more, we should
always bear in mind that it is
today’s efforts that contribute to our
put it
another way, our chance to go ahead will be slim
if we fail to live in the
present.
From what have been illustrated above we can
draw a safe conclusion that we should
not aim
too high, and we’d better try our best to do what
we are doing now, only
in this way can we have
a bright future.
◆【翻译】
我们都知道,为明天做好的准备就是把今
天做得最好。昨天是历史,明天是个谜,今天其实
就是我们的全部。然而,有一个普遍的现象是,现在很
多人对它的关注度降低了。在我看来,
今天每个人都应该优先做好当下的事情。
造成这种情况的原因是多方面的,以下是最主要的原因典型。首先,值得一提的是,没有人
能不通过立
即采取行动而轻易获得成功。当我们全身心投入到当前的任务中时,我们可以更
有效地实现我们的目标。
更重要的是,我们应该时刻牢记,今天的努力有助于我们未来。换
言之,如果我们不能活在当下,我们前
进的机会就很渺茫了。
从上面的阐述我们可以得出一个安全的结论:我们不应该目标太高,我们最好尽
我们所能去
做我们现在正在做的事情,只有这样我们才能有一个光明的未来。
六级阅读答案
第一套阅读
◆【选词填空】
26. grabbed
27. disaster
28. stake
29.
overwhelming
30. eroding
31. deteriorating
32. stagnation
33. determined
34.
urgent
35. capacity9
◆【快速阅读】
36. C
Piaget believed that small
children...
37. J
The author and his
colleagues...
38. B
In the latter half of
the last century,...
39. A
Research
conducted by Jane...
40. K
Our improved
understanding of babies...
41. E
It has
been found in recent research...
42. M
Scientists are still debating...
43. H
The newer research methods focus on...
44.
D
With the progress in psychology...
45. l
Even though marked advances have been made.
◆【仔细阅读1】
46.B
They hold a
different view on stress from the popular one.
47.D
They apply extreme tactics.
48. A
They help him combat stress from work.
49.
C
It is something everybody has to live with.
50. C
Its effect varies considerably form
person to person.
◆【仔细阅读2】
51. B
Hunting may also be a solution.
52. A
It keeps his pollution under control.
53.
A
Overpollution is not an issue.
54. C
Many birds and small animals are being...
55. C
Coordinated efforts of hunters.
六级翻译答案
◆【题目】
《三国演义》写于14世纪,是中国著
名的历史小说。这部小说以三国时期的历史为基础,
描述了从二世纪下半叶到三世纪下半叶魏蜀吴之间的
战争。小说描写了近千个人物和无数的
历史事件。虽然这些人物和时间大多是基于真实的历史,但它们都
不同程度地被浪漫化和戏
剧化了。《三国演义》是公认的文学名著。自出版以来,这部小说吸引了一代又
一代的读者,
对中国文化产生了广泛而持久的影响。
◆【参考范文】
Written in the fourteenth century, The Romance
of the Three Kingdoms is a well-known
historical novel in China. This literary work,
which is based on the history of the
Three
Kingdoms period, describes the war between Wei,
Shu and Wu from the second
half of the second
century to the second half of the third century.
The novel depicts
nearly a thousand
personalities and countless historical events.
Most of these
characters and events are on the
basis of real historical events, but they are
romanticized and dramatized to varying
degrees. The Romance of the Three Kingdoms
is
recognized as a literary classic. This novel has
attracted readers from
generations to
generation since its publication, and has a wide
and profound impact
on Chinese culture.
六级听力原文+答案
Conversation One
M: Tonight, we
have a very special guest. (1) Mrs. Anna Sanchez
is a three time Olympic
champion and author of
the new book To the Edge. Mrs. Sanchez, thank you
for joining
us.
W: Thank you for having
me.
M: Let's start with your book. What
does the title To the Edge mean? What are you
referring to?
W: (2) The book is about how
science and technology has helped push humans to
the
edge of their physical abilities. I argue
that in the past 20 years, we have had
the
best athletes the world has ever seen.
M: But
is this a fair comparison? How do you know how,
say, a football player from
50 years ago would
compare to one today?
W: Well, you are right.
That comparison would be perhaps impossible to
make. But
the point is more about our
knowledge today of human biochemistry, nutrition,
and
mechanics. (3) I believe that while our
bodies have not changed in thousands of years,
what has changed is the scientific knowledge.
This has allowed athletes to push the
limits
of what was previously thought possible.
M:
That's interesting. Please tell us more about
these perceived limits.
W: The world is seen
sports records being broken that could only be
broken with the
aid of technology. Whether
this be the speed of a tennis serve or the fastest
time
in a hundred meter dash or 200 meter
swimming race.
M: (4) Is there any concern
that technology is giving some athletes an unfair
advantage over others?
W: That is an
interesting question. And one that has to be
considered very carefully.
Skis, for example,
went from being made of wood to a metal alloy
which allows for
better control and faster
speed. There is no stopping technological
progress. But,
as I said, each situation
should be considered carefully on a case by case
basis.
Question 1: What do we learn
about Anna Sanchez?
Question 2: What is the
woman's book mainly about?
Question 3: What
has changed in the past thousands of years?
Question 4: What is the man's concern about
the use of technology in sports
competitions?
Conversation two
W:I've worked in
international trade all my life. My father did so
to be for me.
So I guess you could say it runs
in the family.
M:What products have you worked
with?
W:All sorts, really. I've imported
textiles, machinery, toys, solar panels, all
kinds of things over the years. Trends and
demand come and go. (5) So one needs to
be
very flexible to succeed in this industry.
M:I
see what goods are you trading now?
W:I now
import furniture from China into Italy and foods
from Italy into China.(6)
I even use the same
container. It's a very efficient way of conducting
trade.
M:The same container. You mean you
own a 40 foot cargo container?
W:Yeah, that's
right. (7)I have a warehouse in Genoa over Italy
and another in
Shanghai. I source mid century
modern furniture from different factories in
China.
It's very good value for money. I
collect it all in my warehouse and then dispatch
it to my other warehouse in Italy. Over there
I do the same, but with Italian foods
instead
of furniture, things like pasta, cheese, wine,
chocolates. And I send all
that to my
warehouse in China in the same freight container I
use for the furniture.
M:So I presume you sell
both lines of products wholesale in each
respective country.
W:Of course. I possess a
network of clients and partners in both countries.
That's
the main benefit of having done this
for so long. I've made great business contacts
over time.
M:How many times do you ship?
W: I did 12 shipments last year, 18 this year,
and I hope to grow to around 25 next
year.
That's both ways there and back again. Demand for
authentic Italian food in
China is growing
rapidly. And similarly, sales of affordable, yet
stylish wooden
furniture are also increasing
in Italy. (8)Furniture is marginally more
profitable,
mostly because it enjoys lower
customs duties.
Question 5: What does the
woman think is required to be successful in
international
trade?
Question 6: What does
the woman say is special about her way of doing
trade?
Question 7: What does the
woman have in both Italy and China?
Question
8: What does the woman say makes furniture
marginally more profitable?
Passage one
Too many people view their jobs as a 5 day
prison, which they are paroled every Friday,
says Joel Goodman, founder of the humor
project, a humor consulting group in Saratoga
springs, New York. (9) Humor unlocks the
office prison because it lets adults bring
some of their childlike spirit to the
job, according to Howard Pollio, professor
of
psychology at the university of Tennessee
Knoxville. And office with humor breaks
is an
office with satisfied and productive
employees.(10) Polio conducted a study
that
proved humor can help workers Excel at routine
production tasks. Employees
perform better
when they have fun. In large corporations with a
hierarchy of power,
there is often no outlet
for stress. Every company needs underground ways
of poking
fun at the organization, says Lynn
and Mark, a speaker on workplace humor for saint
Mary's health center in saint Louis.
Kodak
Rochester, New York branch, discovered a way for
its 20000 employees to uncork
their bottled up
resentments. There 1000 square foot humor room
features a toy store.
Among the rooms, many
stress reducing gadgets, the main attraction is a
boss doll
with detachable arms and legs. (11)
Employees can take the doll apart as long as
they put its arms and legs back in place.
Sandy Cohan, owner of a graphic print
production business, created the quote board
to document the bizarre phrases people say
when under strict deadlines, when you're
on
distress, you say stupid things, says Cohen. Now
we just look at each other and
say that's one
for the quote board.
Questions9 to 11 are
based on the passage you have just heard.
Question 9. What does the passage say about
humor in the workplace?
Question 10. What does
the study by Howard Polio show?
Question 11.
What can codex employees do in the humor room?
Passage Two
(12)Public interest was
aroused by the latest discovery of a changed gene
in obese
mice. The news was made known by
Rockefeller university geneticist Jeffrey
Friedman.
The researchers believe this gene
influences development of a hormone that tells
organism how fat or full it is. (13)Those with
the changed gene may not sense when
they have
eaten enough or if they have sufficient fatty
tissue, and thus can't tell
when to stop
eating.
The researchers also reported finding
a gene nearly identical to the mouse obesity
gene in humans. The operation of this gene in
humans has not yet been demonstrated,
however.
(14)Still, professionals like university of
Vermont psychologist Eyster
Ross Bloom reacted
enthusiastically. This research indicates that
people really are
born with a tendency to have
a certain weight, just as they are to have a
particular
skin color or height. Actually,
behavioral geneticists believe that less than half
of the total weight variation is programmed in
the genes, while height is almost
entirely
genetically determined. Whatever role genes play
Americans are getting
fatter.
A
survey by the center for disease control found
that obesity has increased greatly
over the
last 10 years. (15)Such rapid change underlines
the role of environmental
factors like the
abundance of rich foods in Americans overeating.
The center for
disease control has also found
that teens are far less physically active than
they
were even a decade ago. Excepting that
weight is predetermined, can relieve guilt
for
overweight people. But people's belief that they
cannot control their weight
can itself
contribute to obesity.
Questions 12 to 15 are
based on the passage you have just heard.
Question 12. What does the speaker say has
aroused public interest?
Question 13. What do
we learn about the changed gene?
Question 14.
What does university of Vermont psychologist
Eyster Ross Bloom say?
Question 15. What
accounts for Americans obesity according to a
survey by the center
for disease control?
Recording One
Qualities of a relationship
such as openness, compassion and mental
stimulation,
or of concern to most of us
regardless of sex. But judging from the
questionnaire
response, they are more
important to women than to men. Asked to consider
the
ingredients of close friendship, women
rated these qualities above all others. (16)
Men assigned a lower priority to them in favor
of similarity and interest. Selected
by 77% of
men and responsiveness in a crisis, chosen by 61%
of male respondents,
mental stimulation ranked
3rd in popularity by men as well as women was the
only
area of overlap. Among men, only 28%
named openness as an important quality.
Caring
was picked by just 23%. (17) It is evident by
their selections that when women
speak of
close friendships, they are referring to emotional
factors. While men
emphasized the pleasure
they find in a friend's company, that is, when a
man speaks
of a friend, he is likely to be
talking about someone he does things with, a
teammate,
a fellow hobbyist, a drinking buddy.
These activities are the fabric of the
friendship. It is a doing relationships in
which similarity in interests is the key
bond. This factor was a consideration
of less than 11% of women. Women opt for a
warm emotional atmosphere where communication
flows freely. Activity is mere
background.
Lastly, men, as we have seen, have serious
questions about each other’s loyalty.
Perhaps
this is why they placed such strong emphasis on
responsiveness in a crisis.
Someone I can call
on for help. Women, as their testimonies indicate,
are generally
more secure with each other and
consequently are more likely to treat this issue
lightly. In follow up interviews, this was
confirmed numerous times. As woman after
woman
indicated that being there when needed was taken
for granted. (18) As for the
hazards of
friendship, more than a few relationships have
been shattered because
of cutthroat
competition and feelings of betrayal. This applies
to both men and women,
but unequally. in
comparison, nearly twice as many men complained
about these issues
as women. Further, while
competition and betrayal are the main thorns to
female
friendship, men are plagued in almost
equal amounts by two additional issues lack
of
frankness and a fear of appearing unmanly.
Obviously, for a man, a good friendship
is
hard to find.
Question 16: What quality do men
value most concerning friendship according to a
questionnaire response?
Question 17: What
do women refer to when speaking of close
friendships?
Question 18: What may threaten a
friendship for both men and women?
16:解析:similarity and interest
选项中预测大致会出现以下两组词语
1)openness,
compassion, mental stimulation
2)similarity
and interest,这两组词的区别就在于对应的人称不同。因此这道题可以通
过听问题确定人
称的方式进行选择。
17:解析:emotional factors
跟上一题一致,预测选项至少会出现两组词1)emotional
factors2)pleasure,依然与人
称相关,分别对应男性和女性的选择。
18:解析:cutthroat competition and feelings of
betrayal
整篇文章的结构前面都属于分别叙述男性女性的区别,后半部分开始说明了男性女性
共同认
同的部分,所以也是符合出题和文章的机构的。
Recording Two
(19) The partial skeletons of more than 20
dinosaurs and scattered bones of about
300
more have been discovered in Utah and Colorado at
what is now the Dinosaur
National Monument.
Many of the best specimens may be seen today at
museums of natural
history in the larger
cities of the United States, and Canada. This
dinosaur pit
is the largest and best preserved
deposit of dinosaurs known today. (20) Many people
get the idea from the mass of bones in the pit
wall that some disaster, such as a
volcanic
explosion or a sudden flood, killed a whole herd
of dinosaurs in this area.
This could have
happened, but it probably did not.
The main
reasons for thinking otherwise, other scattered
bones and the thickness
of the deposit in
other deposits where the animals were thought to
have died together,
the skeletons were usually
complete and often all the bones were in their
proper
places. Rounded pieces of fossil bone
have been found here. These fragments got their
smooth, round shape by rolling along
the stream bottom. In a mass killing, the bones
would have been left on the stream or lake
bottom together at the same level. But
in this
deposit, the bones occur throughout a zone of
sandstone about 12 feet thick.
The mixture of
swamp dwellers and dry land types also seems to
indicate that the
deposit is a mixture from
different places. The pit area is a large dinosaur
graveyard-not a place where they died. (21)
Most of the remains probably floated
down
eastward flowing river until they were left on a
shallow sandbar. Some of them
may have come
from faraway dry land areas to the west. Perhaps
they drowned trying
to cross a small stream,
all washed away during floods. Some of the swamp
dwellers
may have got stuck in the very
sandbar that became their grave. Others may have
floated for miles before being stranded.
Even today, similar events take place: When
floods come in the spring, sheep, cattle,
and
deer are often trapped by rising waters and often
drown. Their dead bodies float
downstream
until the flood recedes, and leaves them stranded
on a bar or shore where
they lie, half buried
in the sand until they decay. Early travelers on
the Missouri
River reported that shores and
bars often lined with the decaying bodies of
buffalo
that had died during spring floods.
Question 19: Where can many of the best
dinosaur specimens be found in North America?
Question 20: What occurs to many people when
they see the massive bones in the pit
wall?
Question 21: What does the speaker suggest
about the large number of dinosaur bones
found
in the pit?
Recording Three
I would
like particularly to talk about the need to
develop a new style of aging
in our own
society. (22)Young people in this country have
been accused of not caring
for their parents
the way they would have in the old country. And
this is true. (23)
But it is also true that
old people have been influenced by an American
ideal of
independence and autonomy. So we live
alone, perhaps on the verge of starvation,
in
time without friends. But we are independent. This
standard American style has
been forced on
every ethnic group. Although there are many groups
for whom the ideal
is not practical, it is a
poor ideal and pursuing it does a great deal of
harm. This
ideal of independence also contains
a tremendous amount of unselfishness.
In
talking to today’s young mothers, I have asked
them what kind of grandmothers
they think they
are going to be. I hear devoted loving mothers say
that when they
are through raising their
children, they have no intention of becoming
grandmothers.
(24) They are astonished to hear
that in most of the world, throughout most of its
history, families have been three or four
generation-families, living under the same
roof. We have over-emphasized the small family
unit—father, mother, small children.
We think
it is wonderful if grandma and grandpa, if they’re
still alive, can live
alone. We have reached
the point where we think the only thing we can do
for our
children is to stay out of their way.
The only thing we can do for our daughter in
law is to see as little of her as possible.
(25) Old people’s nursing homes, even
the best
one, are filled with older people who believe the
only thing they can do
for their children is
to look cheerful when they come to visit. So in
the end, older
people have to devote
all their energies to not being a burden.
We
are beginning to see what a tremendous price we’ve
paid for our emphasis on
independence and
autonomy. We’ve isolated old people and we’ve cut
off the children
from their grandparents. One
of the reasons we have as bad a generation gap
today
as we do is that grandparents have
stepped out. Young people are being deprived of
the thing they need most: perspective to know
why their parents behave so peculiarly
and why
their grandparents say the things they do.
Question 22: What have young Americans been
accused of?
Question 23: What does the speaker
say about old people in the United States?
Question 24: What is astonishing to the young
mothers interviewed by the speaker?
Question
25: What does the speakers say older people try
their best to do?