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Children are a relatively modem invention. Until a few hundred years ago they did not exist. In medieval and Renaissance paintin
Children are a relatively modem invention. Until a few hundred years ago they did not exist. In medieval and Renaissance paintin
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2010-03-26
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Children are a relatively modem invention. Until a few hundred years ago they did not exist. In medieval and Renaissance painting you see pint-sized men and women, wearing grown-up clothes and grown-up expressions, performing grown-up tasks. Children did not exist because the family as we know it had not evolved.
Children today not only exist; they have taken more attention, in no place more than in America, and at no time more than now. It is always Kids’ Country here. Our civilization is child-centered, child-obsessed. A kid’s body is our physical ideal. In Kids’ Country we do not permit middle age. Thirty is promoted over 50, but 30 knows that soon his time to be overtaken will come.
We are the first society in which parents expect to learn from their children. Such a topsy-turvy (颠倒)situation has come about at least in part because, unlike the rest of the world, ours is an immigrant society, and for immigrants the only hope is in the kids. In the Old Country, that is Europe, hope was in the father, and how much wealth he could accumulate and pass along to his children. In the growth pattern of America and its ever-expanding frontier, the young man was ever advised to go west; the father was ever inheriting from his son. Kids’ Country may be the inevitable result.
Kids’ Country is not all bad. America is the greatest country in the world to grow up in because it is Kids’ Country. We not only wear kids’ clothes and eat kids’ food, we dream kids’ dreams and make them come true. It was, after all, a boys’ game to go to the moon.
If in the old days children did not exist, it seems equally true today that adults, as a class, have begun to disappear, condemning all of us to remain boys and girls forever, jogging and doing push-ups against eternity.
The author uses the example of the Renaissance painting to show that ______.
选项
A、adults were smaller and smaller now because they had many things to do
B、adults expressed less concern for their children
C、children looked and acted like adults at that time
D、children were not allowed to appear in family paintings
答案
C
解析
从文章的第一段可以看出,在中世纪和文艺复兴时期,即使是孩子,他们的着装、表情以及承担的工作都与成年人没有什么差别。因此可以说,那时候,人们没有“孩子”的概念,完全把他们当作成年人来看待。选项C表达了这层意思,为正确答案。
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