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A few years ago it was fashionable to speak of a generation gap, a division

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问题     A few years ago it was fashionable to speak of a generation gap, a division between young people and their elders. Parents complained that children did not show them proper respect and (47)______, while children complained that their parents did not understand them at all. What had gone wrong? Why had the generation gap suddenly appeared? Actually, the generation gap has been around for a long time. Many critics argue that it is built into the (48)______ of our society.
    One important cause of the generation gap is the opportunity that young people have to choose their own (49)______ In more traditional societies, when children grow up, they are expected to live in the same area as their parents, to marry people that their parents know and (50)  of, and often to continue the family (51)______. In our society, young people often travel great distances for their educations, move out of the family home at an early age, marry or live with people whom their parents have never met, and choose occupations different from those of their parents.
    In our upwardly (52)______ society, parents often expect their children to do better than they did: to find better jobs, to make more money, and to do all the things that they were unable to do. Often, how-ever, the (53)______ that parents have for their children are another cause of the (54)______ between them. Often, they discover that they have very little in common with each other.
    Finally, the speed at which changes take place in our society is another cause of the (55)______ between the generations. In a traditional culture, elderly people are valued for their (56)______, but in our society the knowledge of a lifetime may become obsolete overnight.

                  Word Bank:
A) gap                             I) ambitions
B) mobile                          J) fabric
C) reap                            K) approve
D) justification                   L) predominant
E) division                        M) occupation
F) equality                        N) dreadful
G) wisdom                          O) life-styles
H) obedience
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答案 O
解析 根据上下文，此处应填life-styles一词。这里意为：代沟产生的原因之一是孩子们有机会选择他们自己的生活方式。life-styles意为：“生活方式”。
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