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The period of adolescence, i.e., the person between childhood and adulthood, may be long or short, depending on social expectati

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问题   The period of adolescence, i.e., the person between childhood and adulthood, may be long or short, depending on social expectations and on society’s definition as to what constitutes maturity and adulthood. In primitive societies adolescence is frequently a relatively short period of time, while in industrial societies with patterns of prolonged education coupled with laws against child labor, the period of adolescence is much longer and may include most of the second decade of one’s life. Furthermore, the length of the adolescent period and the definition of adulthood status may change in a given society as social and economic conditions change. Examples of this type of change are the disappearance of the frontier in the latter part of the nineteenth century in the United States, and more universally, the industrialization of an agricultural society.
  In modem society, ceremonies for adolescence have lost their formal recognition and symbolic significance and there no longer is agreement as to what constitutes initiation ceremonies. Social ones have been replaced by a sequence of steps that lead to increased recognition and social status.  For example, grade school graduation, high school graduation and college graduation constitute such a sequence, and while each step implies certain behavioral changes and social recognition, the significance of each depends on the socio-economic status and the educational ambition of the individual. Ceremonies for adolescence have also been replaced by legal definitions of status roles, right, privileges and responsibilities, it is during the nine years from the twelfth birthday to the twenty-first that the protective and restrictive aspects of childhood and minor status are removed and adult privileges and responsibilities are granted. The twelve-year-old is no longer considered a child and has to pay full fare for train, airplane, theater and movie tickets. Basically, the individual at this age loses childhood privileges without gaining significant adult rights. At the age of sixteen the adolescent is granted certain adult rights which increase his social status by providing him with more freedom and choices. He now can obtain a driver’ s license; he can leave public schools; and he can work without the restrictions of child labor laws. At the age of eighteen the law provides adult responsibilities as well as rights: the young man can now be a soldier, but he also can marry without parental permission. At the age of twenty-one the individual obtains his full legal rights as an adult. He now can write, he can buy liquor, he can enter into financial contracts, and he is entitled to run for public office. No additional basic rights are acquired as a function of age alter majority status has been attained. None of these legal provisions determine at what point adulthood has been reached but they do point to the prolonged period of adolescence.  
It can be inferred from the passage that______.
选项 A、one begins to be considered as an adult since 12
B、one has to pay full fare before he is free from the restrictions of child labor laws
C、one begins to lose childhood privileges when he can obtain a driver’s license
D、one can’t marry without parental permission until he can enter into financial contracts
答案B
解析 推断题。由第二段可知，12岁的人就开始要买全价票，这要早于他们可以打工而不受儿童保护法制约的年纪——16岁，所以B正确。21岁才会被完全视为成人，拥有成人的全部权利，排除A；获得驾照的年龄是16岁，而开始失去儿童特权的年龄是12岁，两者不同，故排除C；可以在没有父母允许的情况下结婚的年龄是18岁，而能够签订经济合同的年龄是2，岁，所以D也不对。
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