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根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能够填入空白处的最佳选项.选项中有两项为多余选项。

     About six years ago I was eating lunch in a restaurant in New York City when a woman and a young

boy sat down at the next table, I couldn't help overhearing parts of their conversation. At one point the twoman asked, "So, how have you been?" And the boy - 1_____- replied. "Frankly, I've been feeling a little depressed lately."

     This incident stuck in my mind 2_____. As far as I can remember, my friends and I didn't find out we were "depressed", that is, in low spirits, until we were in high school.

     3_____. Children don't seem childlike anymore. Children speak more like adults, dress more like

adults and behave more like adults than they used to.

     Whether this is good or bad is difficult to say, but it certainly is different. Childhood as it once was no

longer exists. Why?

     Human development is depended not only on born biological states, but also on patterns of gaining

social knowledge. Movement from one social role to another usually involves learning the secrets of the

new social positions. Children have always been taught adult secrets, but slowly and in stages; traditionally, 4_____.

     In the last 30 years, however, a secret-revelation (揭示) machine has been equipped in 98 percent of American homes. 5_____. Television passes information to all viewers alike, whether they are children or adults. Unable to resist the temptation (诱惑) , many children turn their attention from printed texts to the

less challenging, more attractive moving pictures.

     Communication through print, as a matter of fact, allows for a great deal of control over the social

information which children will gain. Children must read simple books before they can read complex materials.

A. we tell sixth graders things we keep hidden from fifth graders

B. who could not have been more than seven or eight years old

C. It is called television

D. Undoubtedly a change in children has increased steadily in recent years

E. because it confirmed (确认) my growing belief that children are changing.

F. everyone has his own secret in his heart

G. some people are interested in knowing other people's age