2019年10月26日托福阅读真题+题目+答案：1968

2019年10月26日托福阅读真题+题目+答案：1968

The year 1968 was one of the most turbulent in the histofy of the United States following World War II. Much of what made it so traumatic were specifically American events—the growing controvcrcy over the war in Vietnam, the accaccinations of civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. and presidential candidate Robert Kennedy, the racial unrest across the nation's cities, student protests on campuses through America. But the turmoil of 1968 was not confined to the United States. There were tremendous upheavals in many parts of the globe that year.

Both at the time and since, many people have tried to explain why so much instability emerged in so many nations at the same time. One factor that contributed to the worldwide turbulence of 1968 was simple numbers. The postwar baby boom had created a very large age cohort in many nations, and by the late 1960s it was coming of age. In the industrial West, the sheer size of the new generation produced a tripling of the number of people attending colleges and universities in fewer than twenty years, and a heightened^ense of the power of youth. The long period of postwar prosperity and relative peace in which this generation had grown up contributed to heightened expectations of what the world should offer them—and a greater level of impatience than previous generations had demonstrated with the obstacles that stood in the way of their hopes. A new global youth culture emerged that was in many ways at odds with the dominant culture of older generations. It valued nonconformity, personal freedom, and even rebellion.

The most common form of turbulence around the world in 1968 was student unrest. In May there was a student uprising in France that far exceeded in size and ferocity anything that occurred in the United States. It attracted the support of French workers and briefly paralyzed Paris and other cities. In England, Ireland, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Mexico, Canada Japan, and South Korea, students and other young people demonstrated in great numbers, and at times with some violence, against governments and universities and other structures o: authority. Elsewhere, 1968 created more widespread protest, as in Czechoslovakia, 。。。。。余下托福阅读真题省略！

1. Which of the following is NOT mentioned in paragraph 1 as a source of turbulence in the United States in 1968 ?

O Racial tensions

O Protests by government workers

O Disputes over the war in Vietnam

O Unrest among university students

2. According to paragraph 2. which of the following is true of the Paris uprising of 1968 ?

O It was significantly smaller than similar protests in the United States.

O It was started by workers rather than by students.

O It brought the whole city to a standstill for a time.

O It was significantly larger than the uprising in Czechoslovakia.

3. The word " ferocity" in the passage is closest in meaning to

O duration

O importance

O fame

O intensity

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