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Lesson 05 Youth 青年

Lesson 5 Youth

First listen and then answer the following question

How does the writer like to treat young people

People are always talking about 'the problem of youth'.

If there is one -- which I take leave to doubt-- then it is older people who create it, not the young themselves.

Let us get down to fundamentals and agree that the young are after all human beings -- people just like their elders.

There is only one difference between an old man and a young one: the young man has a glorious future before him and the old one has a splendid future behind him: and maybe that is where the rub is.

When I was a teenager, I felt that I was just young and uncertain -- that I was a new boy in a huge school, and I would have been very pleased to be regarded as something so interesting as a problem.

For one thing, being a problem gives you a certain identity, and that is one of the things the young are busily engaged in seeking.

I find young people exciting.

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