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回答题：
Listen to the following passage. Altogether the passage will be read to you four times. During the first reading, which will be done at normal speed, listen and try to understand the meaning. For the second and third readings, the passage will be read sentence by sentence, or phrase by phrase, with intervals of 15 seconds. The last readin8will be done at normal speed again and during this time you should check your work. You will then be given 2minutes to check through your work once more.
Please write the whole passage on ANSWER SHEET ONE.

Generation Gap
Old people are always saying that the young are not what they were. / The same comment is made from generation to generation / and it is always true. / It has never been truer than it is today. / The young are better educated. / They have a lot more money to spend and enjoy more freedom. / They grow up more quickly and are not so dependent on their parents. / They think more for themselves / and do not blindly accept the ideas of their elders. / Events which the older generation remembers vividly / are nothing more than past history. / This is as it should be. / Every new generation is different from the one that preceded it. / The old always assume that they know best for the simple reason / that they have been around a bit longer. / They don't like to feel that their values are being questioned or threatened. / And this is precisely what the young are doing.
【听写点评】
·这是一篇议论文，简要分析了代沟产生的原因。文章首先提出代沟是普遍存在的，接着指出现在年轻一代的生活环境和老一代有很大的不同，最后指出产生代沟的原因是老年人认为自己经历的事情多，不喜欢别人质疑他们的观念，而年轻人却正在这么做。
·短文共分17个意群，时态为一般现在时。
·文中有几个较难拼写的词书写时需要注意，如：9eneration，educated，dependent，blindly。vividly，preceded，precisely。