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almost one in five graduates in their late 20s now live with their parents.

By contrast, only one in eight university graduates had failed to fly the nest by the same age 20 years

ago, research from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) shows. It also found that grown-up sons are

twice as likely as their sisters to still be living with their parents in their late 20s. With nearly a quarter of

men approaching 30 still living at home, the findings are bound to lead to claims of a "generation of

mummy's boys".

Rising property prices, mounting student debts and the effects of recession on the job market have

forced a wave of young people to move back into the family home at an age when they would normally

be moving out. Young professionals in their late 20s or early 30s have been nicknamed the "boomerang

generation" because of the trend toward returning to the family home having firstly left to study. Recent

research has suggested that young people in Britain are twice as likely to chose to live with their parents

in their late 20s than their counterparts(对手们) elsewhere in Europe. But commentators warned that the

phenomenon may have more to do with young people facing "dire" prospects(景象) than simply a desire

to save money. While the proportion of those of university or college age moving out from the family

home has continued to rise in the last 20 years, among those in their mid and late 20s the trend has been

reversed(颠倒).

Overall 1.7 million people aged from 22 to 29 now share a roof with their parents, including more

than 760,000 in their late 20s, the ONS figures suggest. In 1988 22. 7 per cent of men aged 25 to 29

were still living with their parents but last year the proportion was 24. 5 per cent, according to the ONS.

B. Grown-up sons who are still be living with their parents are twice as likely as their sisters.

C. Young people who live with parents now in Britain are less than elsewhere in Europe.

D. More and more elder people trend to live independently.

B. that they want to take care of their old parents

C. that their parents are badly sick

D. that they face miserable phenomenon

B. now live with their parents

C. leave for college

D. go to work

B. these prospects have nothing to do with the financial crisis

C. more and more young people will live with their parents in the future in Britain

D. the government should be responsible for this

B. Boomerang Generation

C. Living with Their Parents

D. Going back

and you put things in their bags for them. And carried things to their cars. It was hard work.

While working, you wear a plate with your name on it. I once met someone I knew years ago. I

remembered his name and said, "Mr. Castle, how are you？" We talked about this and that. As he left, he said,

"It was nice talking to you, Brett." I felt great, he remembered me. Then I looked down at my name plate.

Oh no. He didn't remember me at all, he just read the name plate. I wish I had put "Irving" down on my name

plate. If he'd have said, "Oh yes, Irving, how could I forget you？" I'd have been ready for him. There's nothing

personal here.

The manager and everyone else who were a step above the box boys often shouted orders. One of these

was:you couldn't accept tips (小费). Okay, I'm outside and I put the bags in the car. For a lot of people, the

natural reaction (反应) is to take a quarter and give it me. I'd say, "I'm sorry, I can't." They'd get angry. When

you give someone a tip, you're sort of being polite. You take a quarter and you put it in their hand and you

expect them to say, "Oh, thanks a lot." When you say, "I'm sorry, I can't." they feel a littleput down. They say,

"No one will know." And they put it in your pocket. You say, "I really can't." It gets to a point where you almost

have to hurt a person physically (身体上) to prevent him from tipping you. It was not in agreement with the

store's belief in being friendly. Accepting tips was a friendly thing and made the customer feel good. I just could

n't understand the strangeness of some people's ideas. One lady actually put it in my pocket, got in the car, and

drove away. I would have had to throw the quarter at her or eaten it or something.

I had decided that one year was enough. Some people needed the job to stay alive and fed. I guess I had the

means and could afford to hate it and give it up.

B. Getting along with Customers

C. Why I Gave up My Job

D. The Art of Taking Tips

B. with a name plate, people can easily start talking

C. Mr. Castle mistook Irving for Brett

D. Irving was the writer's real name

B. some customers had strange ideas about tipping

C. the store didn't allow the box boys to take tips

D. he didn't want to fight with the customers

B. defeated

C. hateful

D. hurt