Passage Three
It is natural for young people to be critical of their parents at times and to blame them for most of the misunderstandings between them. They have always complained, more or less justly, that their parents are out of touch with modem ways; that they are possessive and dominant; that they do not trust their children to deal with crises; that they talk too much about certain problems; and that they have no sense of humor, at least in parent-child relationships.
I think it is true that parents often underestimate their teenage children and also forget how they themselves felt when young.
Young people often irritate their parents with their choices in clothes and hairstyles, in entertainments and music. This is not their motive. They feel cut off from the adult world into which they have not yet been accepted. So they create a culture and society of their own. Then, if it turns out that their music or entertainments or vocabulary or cloth
A. parents of teenagers
B. newspapers readers
C. those who give advice to teenagers
D. teenagers
Most young people enjoy some forms of physical activity. It may be walking, bicycling, or swimming, or in winter, skating or skiing. It may be a game of some (36) -- football, hockey, golf or tennis. It may be mountaineering.
Those who have a passion for (37) high and difficult mountains are often (38) with astonishment. Why are men and women willing to (39) cold and hardship, and to take risks on high mountains This astonishment is caused, (40) , by the difference between mountaineering and other forms of activity to (41) men give their leisure. Mountaineering is a sport and (42) a game. There are no man-made roles, (43) there are for such games as golf and football. There are, (44) rules of a different kind which it would be dangerous to (45) , but it is this freedom from man-made rules that makes mountaineering (46) to many people. Those who climb mountains are (47) to use their own met
A. climbing
B. going
C. rising
D. enjoying
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