Growing Up

低阶听力：filling

Growing up is by no means a bad thing. It allows us to make 1） in the world, to find out who we are, and to live the life we 2） as children. We dreamed of growing up when we rested our young heads on our downy pillows and looked up with 3） at the glow-in-the-dark stars stuck to our ceiling, wondering what the world 4） beyond our own home, beyond the world that had been so meticulously created for us.  

Yet upon growing up, we find that reality often 5）those very dreams. We find that the 6） of growing up is perhaps less lovely than we’d envisioned. We find that the only thing we really want back is our youth and our 7）, and the cruel irony is that these are the very things that will never 8）.

高阶听力：summary

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