People always think about “the problem of youth”. If there is one which I take leave to doubt- it is older people who create it, not young themselves. Let us get down to fundamental s and then the young are after all human beings people just like their elders. There is only one difference between and old man and young one: the young man has a beautiful future before him while the old man a splendid future behind him and maybe that id where the rub is.

When I was a teenager, I felt that I was just young and unknown that I was a new boy in a hug w school, and I would have been very pleased to be regarded as something so interesting as a problem. For one thing, being a problem gives you a certain identity, and that is one of the thing s the young are busily engaged in seeking.

I find young people exciting .they have and air of freedom, and they have not a dull promise to mean ambitious or love of comfort .they are not anxious social climbers, and they have no devotion to important things .all this seems to me to ling then with life, and the origin of things .it’s as if they were some sense of cosmic beings in violent and lovely contract with us suburban creatures. all that is in my mind when I need a young person .he may be too proud, ill-mannered or self-satisfied, but I do not turn for protection to boring clichés about respect for elders as if age were a reason for respect .I accept that we are equals, and I will argue with them, as an equal, if I think he is wrong.

72. By “problem of youth” people mean the problem ______

A. caused by young people        B. need to be solve d by young people

C. young people meet                D. created by the old for the young

73. The underlined word “rub” id closest in meaning to _____

A. fact      B. age        C. future          D. difficulty

74. One of the thing s the young are engaged in is that they want t o______

A. climb up the social ladder          B. have freedom

C. be know                                  D. make troubles

75. By saying “anxious social climbers “, the writer refers to ____.

A. some mean adults                B. ambitious young people

C. capable political leaders        D. people who pursue comfort