[A] By contrast, somewhat more than 25 per cent of the earth’s population can be found in the industrialized societies. They lead modern lives. They are products of the first half of the twentieth century, molded by mechanization and mass education, brought up with lingering memories of their own country’s agricultural past. They are, in effect, the people of the present.
[B] The remaining 2 or 3 per cent of the world’s population, however, are no longer people of either the past or the present. For within the main centers of technological and cultural change, in Santa Monica, California and Cambridge, Massachusetts, in New York and London, and Tokyo, are millions of men and women who can already be said to be living the way of life of the future. Trend-makers often without being aware of it, live today as millions will live tomorrow. And while they account for only a few percent of the global population today, they are already from an international nati
| For more than six million American
children, coming home after school means coming home to an empty house. They
spend part of each day alone. They are called "latchkey children".
They’re children who look after themselves while their parents work. And
their bad conditions have become a social problem. Lyne Brown was once the headmaster of an elementary school. She said, "A lot of kids had chains around their necks with keys attached.! was constantly telling them to put them inside shirts. There were so many keys, it never came to my mind what they meant. ",slowly, she learned they were house keys. Lyne learned of the impact working couples and single parents were having on their children. She found that Fear is the biggest problem faced by children at home alone. Many had nightmares and were worried about their own safe A. Lyne was a headmaster. B. A lot of kids had chains around their necks. C. I was constantly telling them to put inside their shirts. D. They were house keys. 我来回答: 提交
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