Young people and old people do not always agree.They sometimes have different ideas about living,working and playing.But in a progarm in New York,adults and teenagers live together i peace.Each summer 200 teenagers and 50 adults live together for 8 weeks as members of a work group.Everyone works several hours each day.The aim is not just to keep busy.It is to find meaning in work.Some teenagers work on the farm near the village.Some learn to built a house,The adults teach them.There are several free hours each day,Weekends are free,too.During the free hours,some of the teenagers learn painting.Others sit round and talk or sing.Each teenagerhas his own way to spend his free time.When people live together,rules are always needed.In this progarm the teenagers and adults make the roles together.If someone beats a rule,the problem goes before the whole group.They ask,"why did it happen?What did we have to do with?"One of teenager has this to say about the progarm,"You stop thinking only about yourself.You learn how to think about the group."
()the main idea of this passage is that-------
A adults and teenagers in new york live together in peace
b adults and teenagers don't often agree with each other
c adults can teach teenagers how to live in peace
d adults and teenagers hou to live in peace
()the aim of working every day in the progran is----
a to keep its members busy
b to get the members together several hours each day
c to find meaning in work
d to spend the summer happily
()in the program---
a the teenagers learn how to spend their free time
b the adults give the teenagers lessons
c the teenagers work on the farm or learn to build a house
d the teenagers work while the adulte don't
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