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阅读理解。
All cultures have coming-of-age
ceremonies. However, they are usually quite different from each other. In
the West, the legal age for adults is usually eighteen. This is about
the age when a person can drive a car, drink alcohol（酒）, and
vote. In Japan, people come of age at the age of twenty.
Every year on the second
Monday of January, large ceremonies are held. Young women and men dress up for
the ceremonies. They listen to speeches from their elders and receive gifts on
that day.
Other parts of the world
have much more unusual ceremonies for new adults. In some places in Africa,
young men go into the forest together.
There, their elders teach
them how to become adults. There are some interesting coming-of-age traditions
in Taiwan, China as well. The Atayal people used to get tattoos（文身）on their
faces.
Standing the pain was what made
them adults.
When you come of age, you
will be free to do what you want. Also, you will be expected to make decisions
for yourself. Being an adult, therefore, means having more freedom and more responsibility.
