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备战2022高考考英语完形填空话题分类训练 (高考真题+各地模拟题) 专题26 科普知识 Passage 1 （2018·上海·高考真题） When 17-year-old Quattro Musser hangs out with friends, they dont drink beer or cruise around in cars with their dates. 1 , they stick to G-rated activities such as rock- climbing or talking about books. They are in good company, according to a new study showing that teenagers are increasingly delaying activities that had long been seen as rites of passage into 2 . The study, published Tuesday in the journal Child Development, found that the percentage of adolescents in the U. S. who have a drivers license, who have tried alcohol, who date, and who work for pay has plummeted since 1976, with the most precipitous (急剧的) 3 in the past decade. The declines appeared across race, geographic, and socioeconomic lines, and in rural, urban, and suburban areas. To be sure, more than half of teens still engage in these activities, but the 4 have slimmed considerably. Teens have also reported a steady decline in sexual activity in recent decades, as the portion of high school students who have had sex fell from 54 percent in 1991 to 41 percent in 2015, according to Centers for Disease Control statistics. u People say, Oh, its because teenagers are more responsible, or more lazy, or more boring, but theyre 5 the larger trend, said Jean Twenge, lead author of the study, which drew on seven large time-lag surveys of Americans. Rather, she said, kids may be less 6 in activities such as dating, driving or getting jobs because in todays society, they no longer need to. According to an evolutionary psychology theory that a persons life strategy slows down or speeds up depending on his or her 7 , exposure to a harsh and unpredictable environment leads to faster development, while a more resource-rich and secure environment has the 8 effect, the study said. In the first 9 , Youd have a lot of kids and be in survival mode, start having kids young, expect your kids