{{U}}Children are a relatively modem
invention{{/U}}. 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. {{U}}In Kids Country we do not permit middle-aged{{/U}}. 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. {{U}}In the Old Country{{/U}}, 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 tree. 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.
单选题
The sentence "Children are a relatively modem invention" underlined in Paragraph 1 means that children ______ .
【正确答案】
D
【答案解析】[分析] 义题型
见第一段第一、二句：Children are a relatively modem invention．Until a few hundred years ago they look like adult，wearing grown-up clothes and grown-up expressions，performing grown-up tasks．(“孩子”相对来讲是个现代的发明。直到几百年前，孩子们看上去还和成人一样：穿着成人的衣服，带着成人的表情，完成成人的任务。)因此作者在此表达的是：那时孩子和成人并不区别对待，D为答案。
单选题
The sentence "In Kids Country we do not permit middle-aged" underlined in Paragraph 2 means that middle-aged ______ .
【正确答案】
B
【答案解析】[分析] 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。
单选题
The young man was advised to Go West to ______ .
单选题
According to the passage, which of the following is true?
【正确答案】
D
【答案解析】[分析] 是非题型
参见第75题注释；因此只有选项D为答案。
单选题
By saying "condemning all of us to remain boys and girls forever, jogging and doing push-ups against eternity", the author means that ______ .
【正确答案】
D
【答案解析】[分析] 语义题型
见第五段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．(如果说过去孩子们不存在，那么如今是成人作为一个阶层也开始消失；宣告我们仍将永远只是男孩、女孩，做着慢跑、俯卧撑来应对未来)；因此本题表达的是：过去孩子们不存在(因为他们的一切都和成人一样)，现在成人作为一个阶层也将消失；D为答案。
单选题
It was suggested but not stated that the American West is the place where ______ .