[简答题]　Agree or disagree: personality changes as one grows older.

[单项选择]Most Americans would agree, one of the United States’ most pressing social problems is the breakdown of the two-parent family. Today, millions of American children grow up without fathers, often in poverty. Too often, these children lack the love and guidance they desperately need -- and which they would ordinarily receive from two responsible parents. Traditionally, American parents have placed the needs of their children above their own, often delaying their own gratification (享受) or sacrificing material comforts in the interests of their children’s future. At present, however, nearly one half of all new marriages end in divorce, with often troubling consequences for the children involved. Worse, every year, thousands of teenage, unmarried Americans become mothers outside the context of wedlock (婚姻) altogether, with generally disastrous results for the mothers and children alike and for American society more generally. In refreshing contrast, Chinese continue to val
A. The breakdown of the two-parent family in the United States
B. The Chinese marriage is a good example for Americans
C. The influence of divorce over children
D. The necessity for parents to place the needs of their children above their own

[单项选择]

How often one hears children wishing they were grown-ups and old people wishing they were young again. Each age has its pleasures and its pains, and the happiest person is the one who enjoys what each age gives him without wasting his time in useless regrets.
Childhood is a time when there are few responsibilities (责任) to make life difficult. If a child has good parents, he is fed, looked after and loved, whatever he may do. It is impossible that he will ever a gain in his life be given so much without having to do anything in re turn. What’s more, life is always giving new things to the child things that have lost their interest for older people because they are too well-known. But a child has his pains: he is not so free to do what he wishes to do; he is repeatedly (反复地) being told not to do some thing, or being punished for what he has wrongly done.
When a young man starts to earn his own living, he can no longer expect others to pay for his food,
A. only children are interested in life
B. a child is always loved whatever he does
C. life for a child is fairly easy
D. if much is given to a child, he must do something in return