The generation gap

代溝

Every new generation is different from the one that preceded it. Today the difference is verymarked indeed.

Old people are always saying that the young are not what they were. The same comment ismade from generation to generation and it is always true. It has never been truer than it istoday. The young are better educated. They have a lot more money to spend and enjoy morefreedom. They grow up quickly and are not so dependent on their parents. They think more ofthemselves and do not blindly accept the idea of their elders. Events which the older generationremembers vividly are nothing more than past history.

Just look at the teenage girls who scream hysterically over the pop stars and the teenage boyswho copy the stars and grow their hair long and are no longer ashamed of wearing" pretty" clothes, are simply breaking through the chinese traditional reserve and fear of showing theirfeelings. What is more, nowadays most boys and girls are good companions and some of themeven fall in" puppy love." A lot of older people sigh and say," we did not use to do like this."

Do you think the older people's criticism stems from jealousy just because they could not ordid not behave in the same way when they were young?

cet6六級作文結(jié)構(gòu)分析：

·paragraph 1 — thematic sentences

·paragraph 2 — comments on the young from the old generation

·paragraph 3 — how the young conduct themselves in the eyes of the old people

·paragraph 4 — a question for readers to think about

cet6六級作文內(nèi)容分析：

本文是一篇議論文?！?代溝”是人們談?wù)摰煤芏嗟脑掝}, 本文就這一話題發(fā)表一些議論。第一段引言即是全文的主題, 第二段寫出了老一代對年輕一代的看法, 第三段主要議論年輕人的種種“反傳統(tǒng)”的表現(xiàn), 結(jié)尾段提出了一個懸念性的問題, 這樣的結(jié)尾使人有別開生面之感, 也是一種很好的寫作手法。

cet6六級作文萬能句型：

precede v. 在……之前，先于

marked a. 明顯的

the young are not what they were. 年輕人變了

It has never been truer than it is today. 從未如今天這么正確

dependent on 依賴

vividly ad. 活生生地, 生動地

nothing more than past history 不過是過去的歷史

scream v. 尖叫

hysterically ad. 神經(jīng)質(zhì)地

copy v. 模仿

grow their hair long 留長發(fā)

be ashamed of 感到難為情

the chinese traditional reserve and fear of showing their feelings 中國人傳統(tǒng)的含蓄和羞于流露感情

puppy love 早戀

sigh v. 嘆氣

did not use to do like that 過去不是這樣做的

criticism n. 批評

stem from 根源于

jealousy n. 忌妒