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根据下面资料,回答题 Against a backdrop of drastic changes in economy and population structure, younger Americansare drawing a new 21st-century road map to success, a latest poll has found.
Across generational lines, Americans continue to prize many of the same traditional milestones ofa successful life, including getting married, having children, owning a home, and retiring in theirsixties. But while young and old mostly agree on what constitutes the finish line of a fulfilling life, theyoffer strikingly different paths for reaching it.
Young people who are still getting started in life were more likely than older adults to prioritizepersonal fulfillment in their work, to believe they will advance their careers most by regularly changing jobs, to favor communities with more public services and a faster pace of life, to agree that couples should be financially secure before getting married or having children, and to maintain that children are best served by two parents working outside the home, the survey found.
From career to community and family, these contrasts suggest that in the aftermath of the searingGreat Recession, those just starting out in life are defining priorities and expectations that will increasingly spread through virtually all aspects of American life, from consumer preferences to housing patterns to politics.
Young and old converge on one key point: Overwhelming majorities of both groups said they believe it is harder for young people today to get started in life than it was for earlier generations. Whileyounger people are somewhat more optimistic than their elders about the prospects for those startingout today, big majorities in both groups believe those "just getting started in life" face a tougher climb
than earlier generations in reaching such signpost achievements as securing a good-paying job, startinga family, managing debt, and finding affordable housing.
Pete Schneider considers the climb tougher today. Schneider, a 27-year-old auto technician fromthe Chicago suburbs says he struggled to find a job after graduating from college. Even now that he isworking steadily, he said. "I can't afford to pay my monthly mortgage payments on my own, so I haveto rent rooms out to people to mark that happen. "Looking back, he is struck that his parents could
provide a comfortable life for their children even though neither had completed college when he wasyoung. "I still grew up in an upper middle-class home with parents who didn't have college degrees, "
Schneider said, "I don't think people are capable of that anymore. "
One cross-generation mark of a successful life is_______. A.trying out different lifestyles
A.trying out different lifestyles
B.having a family with children
B.having a family with children
C.working beyond retirement age
C.working beyond retirement age
D.setting up a profitable business
D.setting up a profitable business
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