問題詳情：
The term “adulting” started as a sort of joke—whenever a millennial (千禧一代) would do something age－appropriate, this was an act of “adulting”. Now, though, millennials obviously require training in being an adult.
Rachel Flehinger has co－founded an Adulting School, which includes online courses on simple sewing, conflict resolution and cooking. The cause for such classes is that many millennials haven't 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.
There's a good deal of truth to this. If you're living at home, with Mom and Dad doing their best to spoil (溺愛) you, you're less likely to know how to do laundry, cook or balance a checkbook. Dependency_breeds_enervation.
But living at home doesn't necessarily lead to dependency. As of 1940, more than 30 percent of 25－ to 29－year－olds 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 we've simply become lazier as parents.
So what's the real problem?
We're more likely to let our kids crash on our couches (長沙發) than tell them to get a job and pay rent. We don't push our kids to build families of their own, as life expectancy has increased, so has adolescence. Americans aren't expected to start building a life, particularly middle－ and upper－class Americans, until they're nearing their 30s. Then the question is how we can encourage young people to “adult” in non－circumstance－driven fashion.
篇章導讀：本文是一篇説明文。千禧一代的孩子接受着父母的寵愛，他們很多人不能*生活需要接受生活技能培訓。事實上，是父母的養育方式導致孩子不能*。
9．What does the last sentence “Dependency breeds enervation” in the third paragraph mean?
A．Parents would like to do housework by themselves.
B．Present kids are too lazy to do housework.
C．Dependency makes kids unable to do things.
D．Kids depend on their parents.
10．Which of the following statements is TRUE?
A．Millennials would like to be trained in being an adult.
B．Parents are too lazy to do chores.
C．Millennials don't adult because they still live in their childhood homes.
D．In the 1940s kids were adulting even when they were living at home.
11．Which of the following statements is the main idea of the passage?
A．“Adulting” is hard, but only because parents are too lazy to teach their kids.
B．Millennials should leave home early to adult.
C．Americans aren't expected to start building a life until they're nearing their 30s.
D．Adulting schools with online courses are popular.
12．According to the passage, what will be written about next?
A．The government should put off the age of adulthood.
B．Parents should leave kids in charge of society.
C．Parents should put responsibility on young people.
D．Pushing kids to adult is painful for parents.
【回答】
9.C 句意理解題。根據第三段第二句可知，如果你住在家裏，爸爸媽媽竭盡全力溺愛你，你就不太可能知道如何洗衣服、做飯或平衡收支。畫線句為進一步的總結，據此可推知，畫線句意在表達，過度依賴父母會使孩子喪失做事情的能力，故C項正確。
10.D 細節理解題。根據第四段第二、三句可知，自20世紀40年代起，有超過30%的25至29歲的人與父母或祖父母一起住在家裏；但即使和家人同住，他們也很成熟。故D項正確。
11.A 主旨大意題。根據第四段末句“The truth is that we've simply become lazier as parents.”並結合全文其他內容可知，本文主要論述了由於父母的過分寵愛和懶得教孩子們生活技能，現在許多千禧一代的孩子不能*，不知道如何洗衣、做飯、管理生活收支等。故A項正確。
12.C 推理判斷題。根據本文最後一句可知，接下來的問題是，我們如何鼓勵年輕人以非環境驅動的方式“成年”。據此可推知，下文將介紹家長如何鼓勵孩子們承擔生活的責任，故C項正確。
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