题目内容：

Born and raised in a digital age, today’s young people are generally tech savvy (技术娴熟的). But when it comes to basic life skills, they’re less capable than the older generation.

According to a recent study, 69 percent of 18 to 24-year-olds in the UK have no idea how to bleed a radiator(暖气片换水). About 35 percent of them don’t know how to sew on a button, while about 11 percent don’t understand how to change a light bulb or iron clothes.

It appears young people are losing the skills older generations took for granted. In fact, the problem is shared by young people in the United States. According to a report by Forbes in 2014, most millennial (千禧一代) drivers don’t know how to check their tire pressure. Cooking is another basic life skill that has been dropped, as millennials are much more likely to order food deliveries than previous generations.

Technology may be to blame for this generational gap. Skills at using phones and computers are the ones valued these days, and the practical skills are now seen as functions that can be easily outsourced (外包). Indeed, improvements in technology have made young people unfamiliar with many basic life skills. For example, with GPS always at hand, young people have had no need to learn how to read physical maps.

However, this change has raised concerns among many people. “If you have your master’s degree and you can’t live within your means or go home from your job and feed yourself a nutritious (有营养的) meal, you’re not a complete graduate,” Chris Moore, a professor from Brigham Young University, US, told HuffPost.

That’s why there’s an increasing call for the return of “home ec” in the US, short for home economics, which teaches basic life skills like cooking and how to do laundry. It was very popular in the early 20th century, but was later taken out of schools and universities because of budget(预算) cuts. But recently, home ec was reintroduced in a small number of schools and universities.

“The educational system would work better if every academic class had a practical course that applied the theory to do something regular people do in real life,” Robert Frost, instructor and flight controller at NASA, wrote on Quora, according to Huffpost.

1.Compared with previous generations, today’s young people are ________.

A. more capable in practical skills.

B. more capable in technological skills.

C. take changing light bulls and sewing for granted.

D. less likely to order food deliveries.

2.What is the reason for the gap between the present generation and previous ones?

A. Today’s young people are lazy.

B. Today’s young people are spoiled by their parents.

C. The economic situation of the past was worse than the present one.

D. Improvement in technology is to blame for it.

3.What can we conclude from the last three paragraphs?

A. The educational system would work better if practical courses are included in academic classes.

B. The change caused by improvements of technology raised many problems among people.

C. Home economics has returned in large scale.

D. Home economics teaches basic home technological skills.

4.What is the best title for the passage?

A. The improvements of technology.

B. Differences between the present and previous generations.

C. Young people’s lack of basic home skills.

D. The meaning and function of home economics.