Directions: For each numbered bracket in the following passage, fill
in a suitable word in the blank on the ANSWER SHEET.
Old people are always saying that the young people are not
(51) they were. The same comment is (52) from
generation to generation and it is always (53) . It has never
been truer than it is today. The young are better educated. They have a lot more
money to spend and enjoy (54) freedom. They grow up more
quickly and are not so (55) on their parents. Events which
the older generation remember vividly are (56) more than past
history, This is as it should be. Every new generation is (57)
from the one that preceded it. Today the difference is very marked
indeed. The old always assume that they know best for the
simple (58) that they have been (59) a bit
longer. They don’t like to feel that their values are being questioned or
threatened. And this is precisely what the (60) are doing.
They are questioning the (61) of their elders and disturbing
their complacency. They take leave to (62) that the
older generation has created the best of all possible worlds. What they reject
more than (63) is conformity. Office hours, for instance, are
nothing more than enforced slavery. Wouldn’t people work best if they were given
complete freedom and (64) And what (65)
the clothing Who said that all the men in the world should
(66) drab grey suits If we turn our (67) to
more serious matters, who said that human differences can best be solved through
conventional politics or by violent means Why have the older generation so
often used (68) to solve their problems Why are they are so
unhappy and guilt-ridden in their personal lives, so obsessed with mean
ambitions and the desire to amass more and more (69)
possessions Can anything be right with the rat-race Haven’t the old
lost (70) with all that is important in life