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  3. Nowadays, it was fashionable to speak of a generation gap, a 【S1】______ between young people and their elders. Parents complaine

Nowadays, it was fashionable to speak of a generation gap, a 【S1】______ between young people and their elders. Parents complaine

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问题     Nowadays, it was fashionable to speak of a generation gap, a 【S1】______ between young people and their elders. Parents complained that their children did not show them proper respect and 【S2】______, while children complained that their parents did not understand them at all. What had gone wrong? Why had the generation gap 【S3】______ appeared? Actually, the generation gap has been around for a long time. Many critics argue that it is built into the fabric of our society.
    One important cause of the generation gap is the 【S4】______ that young people have to choose their own lifestyles. In more 【S5】______ societies, when children grow up, they are expected to live in the 【S6】______ area as their parents, to marry people that their parents know and approve of, and of- ten to continue the family occupation, in our society, young people often travel great distances for their education, move out of the family home at an early age, marry or live with people whom their parents have never 【S7】______, and choose occupations different from those of their parents.
    In our modern 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. But often they discover that they have very little in 【S8】______ with each other.
    The speed at which changes take place in our society is 【S9】______ cause of the gap between the generations. In a traditional culture, elderly people are valued for their wisdom, but in our society the knowledge of a lifetime may become out of date 【S10】______. They young and the old seem to live in two very different worlds, separated by different skills and abilities.

                Word Bank:
A. traditional             I. civilized
B. subjection              J. suddenly
C. confronted              K. common
D. overnight               L. obedience
E. division                M. other
F. met                     N. distinction
G. same                    O. another
H. opportunity
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答案E
解析 a ______ between young people and their elders是对generation gap(代沟)的解释说明。“代沟”应指年轻人与年长者之间存在的分歧，因此应该选E. division。
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