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最牛英语口语培训模式：躺在家里练口语，全程外教一对一，三个月畅谈无阻！ 洛基英语，免费体验全部在线一对一课程： /（报名网址） 迟到时必备的英语口语表达 Passage Four Questions 36 to 40 are based on the following passage. About six years ago I was eating lunch in a restaurant in New York City when a woman and a young boy sat down at the next table. I couldn抰 help overhearing parts of their conversation. At one point the woman asked: So, how have you been? And the boy梬ho could not have been more than seven or eight years old 梤eplied. Frankly, Ive been feeling a little depressed lately. This incident stuck in my mind because it confirmed my growing belief that children are changing. As far as I can remember, my friends and I didn抰 find out we were 揹epressed?until we were in high school. The evidence of a change in children has increased steadily in recent years. Children don抰 seem childlike anymore. Children speak more like adults, dress more like adults and behave more like adults than they used to. Whether this is good or bad is difficult to say, but it certainly is different. Childhood as it once was no longer exists, why?Human development is based not only on innate (天生的) biological states, but also on patterns of access to social knowledge. Movement from one social rote to another usually involves learning the secrets of the new status. Children have always been taught adult secrets, but slowly and in stages: traditionally, we tell sixth graders things we keep hidden from fifth graders. In the last 30 years, however, a secret-revelation (揭示) machine has been installed in 98 percent of American homes. It is called television. Television passes information, and indiscriminately (不加区分地), to all viewers alike, be they children or adults. Unable to resist the temptation, many children turn their attention from printed texts to the less challenging, more vivid moving pictures. Communication through print, as a matter of fact, allows for a great deal of control over the social information to which children have access. Reading and