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. 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 t child-obsessed. A kid’s body is our physical ideal. In Kids Country we do not permit middle- aged. Thirty is fffomoted 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.
1.[单选题]It was suggested but not stated that the American West is the place where____- A.young people are reluctant to go
- B.people may possibly get wealthy
- C.it is more interesting to settle
- D.the old people’s dream can be realized
2.[单选题]Going to the moon is an example of____- A.America’s dreams and creativity
- B.America’s childish and queer behavior
- C.why America hasn’t grown up
- D.why America is considered as the greatest country in the world
3.[单选题]The sentence “In Kids Country we do not permit middle-aged” underlined in Paragraph 2 means that middle-aged____.- 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
4.[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____.- A.she thinks people shouldn’t be so concerned about physical fitness
- B.she feels too old and tired to do such hard exercise
- C.American society is overemphasizing youth and physical appearance
- D.what happened to children centuries ago may occur to adults in America soon
5.[单选题]The young man was advised to Go West to____.- A.find and accumulate more wealth
- B.get more free land for the family
- C.be the pioneers of the West
- D.expand the country’s territory
6.[单选题]In Paragraph 3, “the Old Country” is contrasted with America to show____- A.differences in family size
- B.differences in attitudes towards family relations
- C.two kinds of geography
- D.two different kinds of economic relations between generations
7.[单选题]Which of the following statements is true?- A.In America, 30 is equal to 50.
- B.Thirty is no linger a young age and might soon be replaced by the younger people.
- C.Thirty is already too old to survive in America.
- D.Thirty becomes fifty too soon.
8.[单选题]Which of the following sentences is the main idea of this passage?- A.Children in the Old Country are not as happy as their counterparts in America.
- B.America is a country in which the concept of children is more emphasized than any other countries in the world.
- C.Adults in America are becoming increasingly useless.
- D.Adults should learn from their children because they are more energetic.
9.[单选题]The sentence “Children are a relatively modem invention” underlined in Paragraph 1 means that children.- A.were exactly the same as adults a few hundred years ago
- B.did not exist at that time because there were no families yet
- C.were not different from adults in physical appearance
- D.were not different from adults
10.[单选题]According to the passage, which of the following is true?- A.It is very difficult for the middle-aged to live in America.
- B.America is Kids Country because the majority of the American population is children.
- C.Kids Country was taking shape in America when immigrants poured into the country.
- D.America is more of Kids Country than any other countries in the world.
参考答案： B,A,B,D,A,D,B,B,D,D