1 . What is an Adult?

How do you know when a person is an adult? Does the person’s age tell you? Or is an adult a person who takes on responsibility for work and family? There are different ways to define (定义) an adult.

Age

One way to define an adult is by age, but countries have very different ideas about the legal age of an adult. In India, a man can’t marry without his parents’ permission until age 21, and a woman can’t marry until age 18. However, in Jordan, the legal ages are 16 for men and 15 for women. In Brazil, a 16-year-old can vote, but in most African nations, people don’t have this right until they are 21. The legal driving age in Ethiopia is 14, and in Russia it is 18. The legal age of an adult is different around the world.

Body

Another way to define an adult is by the person’s body. An adult is a person who is grown and can have children. This is a physical definition of an adult. According to this definition, a 16-year-old is usually an adult.

Brain

Teenagers may have fully grown bodies, but they don’t usually think like adults. Their bodies usually stop growing at about age 17, but one part of the brain continues to grow until a person is about 25. This part of the brain, the frontal lobe, helps a person to understand cause and effect. It also helps a person to use good judgment to make decisions, solve problems, plan, and organize. When this part of the brain is fully grown at age 25, a person thinks like an adult.

Responsibilities

Another way of defining an adult is as a person who can take on important responsibilities like a job and a family. An adult respects others and understands that his or her own needs are not always the most important. This is the social definition of an adult. Some teenagers behave like adults, but most are not that responsible until they are over 20 years old.

What Is an Adult?

In conclusion, teenagers look like adults but are not yet adults. Some countries give teenagers the right to have adult responsibilities like marriage, voting, and driving, but teenagers don’t always think or act like adults. Most people agree that after age 25, a person is an adult.

1. Read the statements. Write T(true) or F(false).
_________ Countries have the same ideas about the legal age of adults.
_________When a teenager’s body stops growing, she or he is always an adult.
_________Teenagers’ brains continue to grow after their bodies have stopped growing.
_________Teenagers with jobs and a family are adults according to one definition.
2. A man in India can marry without his parents’ permission when he is ________ years old.

A．16

B．18

C．21

3. People in Brazil can vote when they are ________.

A．16

B．18

C．21

4. People can get a driver’s license in Ethiopia when they are ________.

A．14

B．16

C．18

5. The human brain does dot stop growing until a person is about ________.

A．18

B．21

C．25

6. The last part of the brain to grow is the part that helps a person ________.

A．be intelligent

B．use good judgment（判断）

C．learn languages

7. You can learn from the conclusion that most people think ________.

A．a person is an adult after age 25

B．a person is an adult when his or her body is grown

C．a person is an adult when she or he acts like an adult

2 . 保持健康的方法
题目要求：
健康对我们任何人来说都是最为重要的。为了保持健康，我们需要一些普通的知识。
要点如下：
1．注意你的饮食，吃大量的水果和蔬菜，不要吃太多富含脂肪的食物；
2．经常性的锻炼身体；
3．养成良好的生活习惯，保证睡眠，不抽烟。
要求： 1. 词数100左右；
2. 可适当添加细节；
3．开头已给出，不计入总词数。

The Ways to Stay Healthy

Health is most important for any of us. In order to stay healthy, we need some common knowledge.

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