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[研究生入学考试题库]考研英语(一)阅读理解分类模拟题88 Reading ComprehensionPart AText 1 How long is too long for young adults to live at home after college? In a recent survey by TD Ameritrade, teenagers on average said it would become embarrassing to still be living at home at age 26. Young adults aging 20 to 26—probably because theyve already been out in the real world—thought the cutoff should be 28. But 27 percent of those surveyed said they wouldnt be ashamed to be living at home even in their thirties or so.  Heres the reality: Nearly half of post-college millennials have moved back home. Wages are stagnant, and many graduates with debt find its hard to live on their own. Survey participants said their debt is causing them to delay saving for retirement, buying a home, getting married and having children. Twenty percent said the education they received wasnt worth the debt they accumulated. In many cases, people view young adults moving back home as a sign that they were lazy or not doing things right, said J.J. Kinahan, chief strategist at TD Ameritrade. But many people doing it are being fiscally responsible.  Ive long advocated for young adults graduating with burdensome debt to move back home if they can. Ill go even further. College graduates should make every effort to find a job in the area where their parents live or another relative or friend is nearby. And in exchange for rent-free living, they should pledge to extinguish as much of their student-loan debt as they can.  You may think that living at home is an improper failure to launch or that it delays the all-important lesson of learning to be independent. But may I suggest we all make an effort to remove the stigma of young adults returning home as a financial embarrassment? It is not, especially if parents allowed or encouraged a student to attend a college that necessitated some heavy borrowing.  Soon-to-be graduates often ask me for advice on how to pay off their student loans. Some dont even