19.There used to be four common life phases (階段):childhood,adolescence,adulthood and old age.Now,there are at least six:childhood,adolescence,odyssey,adulthood,active retirement and old age.Of the new ones,the least understood is odyssey,the decade of wandering that frequently occurs between adolescence and adulthood.
They see that people in this age bracket are delaying marriage.They're delaying having children.They're delaying permanent employment.People who were born before 1964tend to define adulthood by certain achievements moving away from home,becoming financially independent,getting married and starting a family.
In 1960,roughly 70percent of 30-year-olds had achieved these things.By 2000,fewer than 40percent of 30-year-olds had done the same.
Yet with a little imagination it's possible even for baby boomers (生育高峰期的人) to understand what it's like to be in the middle of the odyssey years.It's possible to see that this period is a sensible response to modern conditions.
Two of the American best social scientists have been trying to understand this new life period.Through their work,you can see uncertainty that now characterizes this stage.Young people grow up in tightly structured childhoods,Robert Wuthnow of Princeton observes,but then graduate into a world of uncertainty.Old success recipes don't apply,new systems have not been established and everything seems to give way to a less permanent version of itself.Dating gives way to Facebook and hooking up.Newspaper reading gives way to blogging.For example,in 1970,49percent of adults in their 20s read a daily paper,now it's at 21percent.
The job market is changeable.Graduating seniors don't find corporations offering them jobs that will guide them all the way to retirement.Instead they find a vast menu of information economy options,few of which they have heard of or prepared for.

67.Which is the correct order of the following life phases?B
a.childhood    b.a(chǎn)dolescence    c.a(chǎn)dulthood
d.old age      e.odyssey        f.a(chǎn)ctive retirement
A.a(chǎn)-b-c-d-e-f B.a(chǎn)-b-e-c-f-dC.a(chǎn)-b-e-d-f-c  D.a(chǎn)-b-c-e-d-f
68.By 2000,most of the 30-year-oldsD.
A.were financially dependent
B.got well-prepared for the employment
C.got married early and started their family
D.preferred blog writing to newspaper reading
69.We can learn from Paragraph 5that young peopleC.
A.favor the world full of changes
B.grew up in unstable childhoods
C.feel uneasy about the present situation
D.may refer to the experience of their seniors
70.The passage is probably followed by a paragraph about theC
A.concerns about active retirement phase
B.reasons for the birth of the odyssey phase
C.influences of the odyssey phase on the society
D.situations of active retirement in other countries.

分析 本文敘述了由少年變成成年人中間的過度階段,人們稱之為奧賽德階段,在此時(shí)人們會(huì)茫然無措,行為不成熟.

解答 65.B.排序題.由人生的階段可知是童年,少年,奧賽德階段,成年,退休,老年,故選B.
66.D.細(xì)節(jié)理解題.由第五段Newspaper reading gives way to blogging.可知人們選擇博客而不是報(bào)紙,故選D.
67.C.理解推斷題.由第五段Through their work,you can see uncertainty that now characterizes this stage.可知,他們第境況不容易,對于改變世界有著不確定性,故選C.
68.C.推理判斷題.由最后一段The job market is changeable可知這是講他們工作的不易,可推知再往下要講述這個(gè)現(xiàn)象對社會(huì)的影響,故選C.

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