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　Unit 5　First aid Ⅰ.阅读理解 A [2020·大同市高三学情调研测试] Growing Pains The term “adulting” started as a sort of joke — whenever a millennial (千禧一 代) would do something age­appropriate, this was an act of “adulting”. Now, though, millennials obviously require training in being an adult. Rachel Flehinger has co­founded an Adulting School, which includes online courses on simple sewing, conflict resolution and cooking. The cause for such classes is that many millennials havent left childhood homes — in America 34 percent of adults aged 18 to 34 still lived with their parents as of 2015, up from 26 percent a decade before. Theres a good deal of truth to this. If youre living at home, with Mom and Dad doing their best to spoil (溺爱) you, youre less likely to know how to do laundry, cook or balance a checkbook. Dependency_breeds_enervation. But living at home doesnt necessarily lead to dependency. As of 1940, more than 30 percent of 25­to 29­year­olds lived at home with parents or grandparents. They were adulting, even while living at home. Parents expected their kids to do chores, to prepare for life. Instead of blaming living at home, then, we have to blame our style of parenting. The truth is that weve simply become lazier as parents. So whats the real problem? Were more likely to let our kids crash on our couches (长沙发) than tell them to get a job and pay rent. We dont push our kids to build families of their own, as life expectancy has increased, so has adolescence. Americans arent expected to start building a life, particularly middle­ and upper­class Americans, until theyre nearing their 30s. Then the question is how we can encourage young people to “adult” in non­circumstance­driven fashion. 1．What does the last sentence “Dependency breeds enervation” in the third p