How often one hears children wishing they were grown-ups. And old people wishing they were 46 again. Each age has it pleasure and its pain, and the happiest person is the one who enjoys what each age 47 him without wasting his time in useless 48 .
Childhood is a time when there are few responsibilities to make life 49 . If a child has good parents, he is 50 , looked after and loved, whatever he may do. It is 51 that he will ever again in his life be 52 so much without having to do anything in return. 53 , life is always giving new things to the child-things that have lost their 54 for older people because they are too 55 . But a child has his 56 , he is not so free to do what he wishes to do; he is 57 being told not to do something, or being 58 for what he has wrongly done.
When a young man 59 to earn his own living, he can no longer expect others to 60 his food, his clothes, and his room, but has to work if he wants to live 61 . If he spends most of his time playing about in the ways that he used to as a child, he will 62 hungry. And if he breaks the laws of society 63 he used to break the laws of his parents, he may go to prison. If, 64 , he works hard, keeps out of trouble and has good health, he can have the great happiness of 65 for himself his own position in society.
46. A. children B. young C. active D. strong
47. A. leaves B. hopes C. judges D. gives
48. A. regrets B. means C. ways D. forms
49. A. better B. easy C. difficult D. perfect
50. A. raised B. supported C. served D. dressed
51. A. impossible B. natural C. common D. harmful
52. A. taught B. asked for C. given D. taken
53. A. As a result B. In other words C. From time to time D. What’s more
54. A. power B. sense C. value D. interest
55. A. popular B. modern C. familiar D. advanced
56. A. pains B. weakness C. requests D. rights
57. A. year by year B. again and again C. once in a while D. for ever
58. A. warned B. talked C. punished D. destroyed
59. A. plans B. starts C. continues D. manages
60. A. pay B. pay for C. pay off D. pay back
61. A. comfortably B. freely C. peacefully D. separately
62. A. feel B. face C. go D. meet
63. A. since B. when C. while D. as
64. A. by the way B. possibly C. sooner or late D. however
65. A. keeping up B. building up C. taking up D. making up