1 . We always want what we cannot have. When we’re young, we want to stay out late, have romantic relationships and be
____．However, when we're
____, we want to go back to being young and we
____the days when we didn’t have to worry about complex love affairs,
____pressure and money problems．
Young people believe adulthood
____freedom from parents and schoolwork．When they get older, they feel that
____is freedom from work pressure and family responsibilities. To
____ this feeling, people say, "The grass is always
____on the other side of the fence．"
As
____, we like to be like adults but as young adults, we
____ to be young again. We think about staying out late and
____ our own money to spend．Suddenly, we see that love can result in
____hearts; staying out late makes it hard to get ready for
____the next morning. We find out that adult life is not as
____as we thought it would be and suddenly,
____becomes very scary．
Life is
____ ．It gives us time to
____ but also requires us to work. The time will come when we must grow up and we will always look back wishing we
____ being young a bit longer. That time will not come back. It is normal to want what we cannot have but the
____ is that to be happy is to appreciate what we have．That is the first step to grow up.
____ life becomes more complex, we will not regret the time we wasted wishing we were adults．
1. | A．comfortable | B．dependent | C．polite | D．independent |
2. | A．defeated | B．older | C．married | D．confident |
3. | A．like | B．forget | C．miss | D．regret |
4. | A．job | B．study | C．age | D．health |
5. | A．creates | B．shows | C．limits | D．means |
6. | A．adulthood | B．childhood | C．parenthood | D．neighborhood |
7. | A．reduce | B．experience | C．describe | D．understand |
8. | A．thinner | B．greener | C．yellow | D．colorful |
9. | A．researchers | B．adults | C．teenagers | D．elders |
10. | A．decide | B．wish | C．return | D．stop |
11. | A．making | B．worrying about | C．having | D．showing off |
12. | A．healthy | B．ambitious | C．excited | D．broken |
13. | A．breakfast | B．school | C．work | D．exercise |
14. 15. | A．love | B．life | C．career | D．future |
16. | A．long | B．fair | C．short | D．beautiful |
17. | A．study | B．think | C．live | D．play |
18. | A．stopped | B．imagined | C．enjoyed | D．tried |
19. | A．reason | B．result | C．truth | D．dream |
20. | A．When | B．If | C．Unless | D．Before |
