When you are small, all ambitions fall into one grand category: when I’ m grown up. When I’ m grown up, you say, I’ ll go up in space. I’ m going to be an author. I’ ll kill them all and then they’ ll be sorry. I’ ll be married in a cathedral with sixteen bridesmaids in pink lace. I’ ll have a puppy of my own and no one will be able to take him away.
None of it ever happens, of course--or darn little, but the fantasies give you the idea that there is something to grow up for. Indeed one of the saddest things about gilded adolescence is the feeling that from eighteen on, it’ s all downhill; I read with horror of an American hip pie wedding where someone said to the groom( aged twenty) "you seem so kind a grown up somehow", and the lad had to go round seeking assurance that he wasn’ t. No, really he wasn’t. A determination to be better adults than the present incumbents is fine, but to refuse to gro
A. have so many unselfish ambitions
B. don’ t want to be a spaceman
C. all long for adult comforts
D. have such long term ambitions
When you are small, all ambitions fall into one grand category: when I’ m grown up. When I’ m grown up, you say, I’ ll go up in space. I’ m going to be an author. I’ ll kill them all and then they’ ll be sorry. I’ ll be married in a cathedral with sixteen bridesmaids in pink lace. I’ ll have a puppy of my own and no one will be able to take him away.
None of it ever happens, of course--or darn little, but the fantasies give you the idea that there is something to grow up for. Indeed one of the saddest things about gilded adolescence is the feeling that from eighteen on, it’ s all downhill; I read with horror of an American hip pie wedding where someone said to the groom( aged twenty) "you seem so kind a grown up somehow", and the lad had to go round seeking assurance that he wasn’ t. No, really he wasn’t. A determination to be better adults than the present incumbents is fine, but to refuse to gro
A. satisfy ambitions
B. lessen ambitions
C. stimulate ambitions
D. frustrate ambitions
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