We always want what we cannot have. When we're young, we want to stay out late, have romantic relationships, and be ____. However, when we're ____, we want to go back to being young and we ___ the days when we didn't have to worry about complex love affairs, ___ pressure, and money problems.
Young people believe adulthood ____ freedom from parents and schoolwork. When they get older, they feel that ____ is freedom from work pressure and family responsibilities. To ____ this feeling, people say, “The grass is always ____ on the other side of the fence.”
As ____, we like to be like adults but as young adults, we ____ to be young again. We think about staying out late and ____ our own money to spend. Suddenly, they see that love can result in ____ hearts; staying out late makes it hard to get ready for ____ the next morning. They find out that adult life is not as ____ as they thought it would be and suddenly, ___ becomes very scary.
Life is ____. It gives us time to ____ but also requires us to work. The time will come when we must grow up and we will always look back wishing we ____ being young a bit longer. That time will not come back. It is normal to want what we cannot have but the ____ is that to be happy is to appreciate what we have. That is the first step to grow up. ____ life becomes more complex, we will not regret the time we wasted wishing we were adults.
| 【小题1】 | | A.comfortable | B.dependent | | C.independent | D.polite |
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| 【小题2】 | | A.older | B.defeated | C.married | D.confident |
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| 【小题3】 | | A.like | B.forget | C.regret | D.miss |
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| 【小题4】 | | A.study | B.job | C.age | D.health |
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| 【小题5】 | | A.creates | B.shows | C.means | D.limits |
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| 【小题6】 | | A.childhood | B.adulthood | | C.parenthood | D.neighborhood |
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| 【小题7】 | | A.reduce | B.describe | | C.experience | D.understand |
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| 【小题8】 | | A.greener | B.thinner | C.yellow | D.colorful |
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| 【小题9】 | | A.researchers | B.teenagers | | C.adults | D.elders |
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| 【小题10】 | | A.wish | B.decide | C.return | D.stop |
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| 【小题11】 | | A.making | B.having | | C.worrying about | D.showing off |
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| 【小题12】 | | A.healthy | B.ambitious | C.broken | D.excited |
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| 【小题13】 | | A.breakfast | B.school | C.exercise | D.work |
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【小题14】.
| 【小题15】 | | A.life | B.love | C.career | D.future |
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| 【小题16】 | | A.long | B.short | C.fair | D.beautiful |
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| 【小题17】 | | A.study | B.think | C.play | D.live |
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| 【小题18】 | | A.stopped | B.enjoyed | C.imagined | D.tried |
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| 【小题19】 | | A.reason | B.result | C.dream | D.truth |
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| 【小题20】 | | A.If | B.When | C.Unless | D.Before |
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试题答案
【小题1】C
【小题2】A
【小题3】D
【小题4】B
【小题5】C
【小题6】A
【小题7】B
【小题8】A
【小题9】B
【小题10】A
【小题11】B
【小题12】C
【小题13】D
【小题14】D
【小题15】A
【小题16】C
【小题17】C
【小题18】B
【小题19】D
【小题20】B
解析