单选题It is often difficult for parents to ______ their children from danger while still ______ an attitude of openness and curiosity throughout childhood.A release, forgoingB hide, preventingC shield, rejectingD safeguard, fosteringE diminish, embodying
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单选题
It is often difficult for parents to ______ their children from danger while still ______ an attitude of openness and curiosity throughout childhood.
A
release, forgoing
B
hide, preventing
C
shield, rejecting
D
safeguard, fostering
E
diminish, embodying
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第1题：
In has been shown that children who smoke have certain characteristics.Compared with non-smokers they are more rebellious, their work deteriorates as they move up school, they are more likely to leave school early, and are more often delinquent and sexually precocious.Many of these features can be summarized as anticipation of adulthood.
There are a number of factors which determine the onset of smoking, and these are largely psychological and social.They include availability of cigarettes, curiosity, rebelliousness, appearing tough, anticipation of adulthood, social confidence, the example of parents and teachers, and smoking by friends and older brothers and sisters.
It should be much easier to prevent children from starting to smoke than to persuade adults to give up the habit once established, but in fact this has proved very difficult.The example set by people in authority, especially parents, health care workers, and teachers, is of prime importance.School rules should forbid smoking by children on the premises.This rule has been introduced at Summerhill School where I spent my schooldays.
There is, however, a risk of children smoking just to rebel against the rules, and even in those schools which have tried to enforce no smoking by corporal punishment there is as much smoking as in other schools.Nevertheless, banning smoking is probably on balance beneficial.Teachers too should not smoke on school premises, at least not in front of children
1、Which of the following is a common characteristic of young smokers?
A、Disobedience
B、Laziness
C、Lack of intelligence
D、Vanity
2、Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?
A、Some children start to smoke out of curiosity
B、Many children start to smoke because they want to appear mature.
C、In order to have fewer children smokers, parents, teachers and health care workers should not smoke.
D、It is not as difficult to prevent children from starting to smoke as to dissuade adults from smoking.
3、The writer concludes that school rules to forbid smoking().
A、should be introduced, for it really works at the school where he once studied.
B、should not be introduced, for it may cause disturbance.
C、should be introduced though it may not work effectively.
D、needn't be introduced as long as teachers don't smoke in front of children.
4、The author's attitude towards his writing is().
A、objective
B、emotional
C、critical
D、indifferent
参考答案：ADCC
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第2题：
Compared with parents of 30 years ago, today's parents ( )．
A． go to clubs more often with their children
B． are much stricter with their children
C． care less about．their children's life
D． give their children more freedom
正确答案：D
D[解析]根据第三段第一句So it seems that this generation of parents is much more likely than parents of 30 years ago to treat their children as friends.及其后的例子可知 D项正确。 -
第3题：
We may draw a conclusion that______.
A. latchkey children enjoy having such a large amount of time alone
B. latchkey children try to hide their feeling
C. latchkey children often watch TV with their parents
D. it's difficult to find out how many latchkey children there are
正确答案：D44．答案为D 文章最后一段倒数第2句It's hard to get statistics on latchkey children，the Browns learned可推知由于父母不愿意透露孩子在家的情况，因此很难统计出钥匙儿童的实际数量。
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第4题：
Parents and children often disagree about what is important or right because ______.
A. they have different styles of life
B. they hate each other
C. parents think that their children are troublemakers
D. they are in a society of rapidly changing social and moral values
正确答案：D
本题属推理分析题。文章中间的“But in a society of rapidly changing social and moral values”表
明：在一社会和道德价值迅速变化的社会里，父母与孩子常常争吵。 -
第5题：
共用题干
Generation Gap A few years ago,it was fashionable to speak of a generation gap,a division between young people and their elders.Parents complained that children did not show them proper respect and obedience,while children complained that their parents did not understand them at all.
What had gone wrong?Why had the generation gap suddenly appeared?Actually,the generation gap has been around for a long time.Many critics argue that it is built into the fabric of our society.
One important cause of the generation gap is the opportunity that young people have to choose their own life styles.In more traditional societies,when children grow up,they are expected to live in the same area as their parents,to marry people that their parents know and approve of, and often to continue the family occupation.
In our society,young people often travel great distances for their education,most out of the family home at an early age,marry or live or choose occupations different from those of their parents. In our upwardly mobile society,parents often expect their children to do better than they did:to find better jobs,to make more money,and to do all the things that they were unable to do.
Often,however,the ambitions that parents have for their children are another cause of the division between them.Often they dis-cover that they have very little in common with each other. Finally,the speed at which changes take place in our society is another cause of thie gap between the generations.In a traditional culture,elderly people are valued for their wisdom,but in our society the knowledge of a lifetime may become obsolete overnight.
The young and the old seem to live in two very different worlds,separated by different skills and abilities, No doubt,the generation gap will continue to be a feature of American life for some time to come.Its causes are rooted in the freedoms and opportunities of our society,and in the rapid pace at which society changes.The word"around"in Paragraph 1 means_____＿.
A:on all sides
B:in every direction
C:near
D:in existence答案：D解析：文章第一段主要讲述了美国社会中所存在的代沟问题：父母抱怨孩子们不够尊敬和服从他们；孩子们抱怨父母不理解他们。实际上，该问题已经存在了很长一段时间。评论家认为代沟已经成为美国社会结构的一部分。由此可见，代沟是美国的一种特征。因此B为正确答案。
由文章第一段倒数第二句话可知，代沟问题已经存在了很长时间。around在此处意思是“存在”，与in existence（存在）意思相近。因此D为正确答案。
文章从三方面讲述了代沟形成的原因。由第二段第一句话可知，形成代沟的一个重要原因是年轻人必须选择自己的生活方式；由第三段第一句话可知，父母对孩子期望过高也是代沟形成的一个原因；由第四段第一句话可知，社会的快速变化也是导致代沟形成的原因。而文中并未提到现代教育使得孩子与父母想法不同的问题。因此D为正确答案。
由文章第三段最后一句话可知，父母和孩子会发现彼此之间几乎没有相似之处。因此D为正确答案。
文章主要讲的是美国社会中所存在的代沟问题及其形成的原因，并没有提到如何解决这一问题，因此排除A.B选项；而D项（美国社会应该避免代沟问题）文中也未提及.由文章第三段可知，父母对孩子期望过高也是形成代沟的原因。因此C为正确答案。 -
第6题：
共用题干
Generation Gap A few years ago,it was fashionable to speak of a generation gap,a division between young people and their elders.Parents complained that children did not show them proper respect and obedience,while children complained that their parents did not understand them at all.
What had gone wrong?Why had the generation gap suddenly appeared?Actually,the generation gap has been around for a long time.Many critics argue that it is built into the fabric of our society.
One important cause of the generation gap is the opportunity that young people have to choose their own life styles.In more traditional societies,when children grow up,they are expected to live in the same area as their parents,to marry people that their parents know and approve of, and often to continue the family occupation.
In our society,young people often travel great distances for their education,most out of the family home at an early age,marry or live or choose occupations different from those of their parents. In our upwardly mobile society,parents often expect their children to do better than they did:to find better jobs,to make more money,and to do all the things that they were unable to do.
Often,however,the ambitions that parents have for their children are another cause of the division between them.Often they dis-cover that they have very little in common with each other. Finally,the speed at which changes take place in our society is another cause of thie gap between the generations.In a traditional culture,elderly people are valued for their wisdom,but in our society the knowledge of a lifetime may become obsolete overnight.
The young and the old seem to live in two very different worlds,separated by different skills and abilities, No doubt,the generation gap will continue to be a feature of American life for some time to come.Its causes are rooted in the freedoms and opportunities of our society,and in the rapid pace at which society changes.Which one is NOT the cause of the generation gap?
A:Young people like to choose their own life styles.
B:American society is changing very fast.
C:Parents place high hopes on their children.
D:Modern education makes them think differently.答案：D解析：文章第一段主要讲述了美国社会中所存在的代沟问题：父母抱怨孩子们不够尊敬和服从他们；孩子们抱怨父母不理解他们。实际上，该问题已经存在了很长一段时间。评论家认为代沟已经成为美国社会结构的一部分。由此可见，代沟是美国的一种特征。因此B为正确答案。
由文章第一段倒数第二句话可知，代沟问题已经存在了很长时间。around在此处意思是“存在”，与in existence（存在）意思相近。因此D为正确答案。
文章从三方面讲述了代沟形成的原因。由第二段第一句话可知，形成代沟的一个重要原因是年轻人必须选择自己的生活方式；由第三段第一句话可知，父母对孩子期望过高也是代沟形成的一个原因；由第四段第一句话可知，社会的快速变化也是导致代沟形成的原因。而文中并未提到现代教育使得孩子与父母想法不同的问题。因此D为正确答案。
由文章第三段最后一句话可知，父母和孩子会发现彼此之间几乎没有相似之处。因此D为正确答案。
文章主要讲的是美国社会中所存在的代沟问题及其形成的原因，并没有提到如何解决这一问题，因此排除A.B选项；而D项（美国社会应该避免代沟问题）文中也未提及.由文章第三段可知，父母对孩子期望过高也是形成代沟的原因。因此C为正确答案。 -
第7题：
共用题干
Early or Later Day Care
The British psychoanalyst John Bowiby maintains that separation from the parents during the sensitive "attachment"period from birth to three may scar a child's personality and predispose to emotional problems in later life.Some people have drawn the conclusion from Bowlby's work that children should not be subjected to day care before the age of three because of the parental separation it entails,and many people do believe this.But there are also arguments against such a strong conclusion.
Firstly,anthropologists point out that the insulated love affair between children and parents found in modern societies does not usually exist in traditional societies.For example,in some tribal societies,such as the Ngoni,the father and mother of a child did not rear their infant alone-far from it.Secondly,common sense tells us that day care would not be so widespread today if parents,care-takers found children had problems with it.Statistical studies of this kind have not yet been carried out,and even if they were,the results would be certain to be complicated and controversial.Thirdly,in the last decade there have been a number of careful American studies of children in day care,and they have uniformly reported that day care had a neutral or slightly positive effect on children's development.But tests that have had to be used to measure this development are not widely enough accepted to settle the issue.
But Bowlby's analysis raises the possibility that early day care has delayed effects.The possibility that such care might lead to,say,more mental illness or crime 15 or 20 years later can only be explored by the use of statistics.Whatever the long-term effects,parents sometimes find the immediate effects difficult to deal with.Children under three are likely to protest at leaving their parents and show unhappiness.At the age of three or three and a half almost all children find the transition to nursery easy,and this is undoubtedly why more and more parents make use of child care at this time.The matter,then,is far from clear-cut, though experience and available evidence indicate that early care is reasonable for infants.Which of the following best expresses the writer's attitude towards early day care?
A:Children under three should stay with their parents.
B:Early day care has positive effects on children's development.
C:The issue is controversial and its settlement calls for the use of statistics.
D:The effects of early day care on children are exaggerated and parents should ignore the issue.答案：C解析：由文章第一段第一句的内容可知，波比认为婴儿从出生到3岁属于敏感的“依赖性”阶段，在此阶段和父母分开会对婴儿的性格造成伤害，并易引起以后生活中的情感问题，C选项和文意相符。
由文章第一段第二句中“SomepeoplehavedrawntheconclusionfromBowiby'sworkthat…”可知，一些人从波比的研究中得出结论：幼儿在三岁之前不应该送到日托，因为那样会使孩子和父母分开。故A项符合文意。
由文章第二段第一句话可知，人类学家指出，现代社会中孩子和父母之间被隔离的爱在传统社会中不常见，故选A。
文章第二段中列出的三条内容分别对应本题选项中的C、B、A三项。这三项内容都用来对波比的结论进行反驳，只有D项未提及，故选D。
文章第一段介绍了波比的观点和其支持者由此得出的结论，第二段介绍了波比理论的反对者的观点，第三段中透露了作者的观点。第三段前两句提到，因日托具有延迟效应，日托是否可能会在15年或20年后导致精神疾病或犯罪只能用统计的方法来进行研究，并且该段最后一句中提到，这个议题非常不明了。故C项符合文意。 -
第8题：
单选题What can a culture camp help to do according to Peter Kassen?AIt helps the adopted kids form a correct attitude to their complex heritage.
BIt helps the Chinese children have fun with their American parents.
CIt helps the Americans increase the adoption from Russia and China.
DIt helps the American parents adopt children from other countries.
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第9题：
单选题Which of the following is more likely to have depression?ACareless parents whose children are deep in love.
BYoung people who have a strong sense of selfishness.
CYoung boys whose parents watch for their behavior.
DYoung girls who always hide their feelings and opinions.
正确答案： D解析：
根据第二段倒数二、三句“Young girls who have romantic relationships usually like hiding their feelings and opinions.”可知，那些不愿意表达自己观点的女生更容易患忧郁症。 -
第10题：
单选题Parents in China still cherish the notion that the only way out for their children is to enter college.Aturn to
Bcling to
Ctake to
Dcater to
正确答案： C解析：
句意：中国的家长们一直认为孩子的唯一出路就是上大学。cherish的意思是“珍视，保护，长期持有”。turn to求助于；转向。cling to坚持；依附于。take to喜欢上。cater to迎合，为……服务。 -
第11题：
问答题Practice 4 The line of demarcation between the adult and the child world is drawn in many ways. For instance, many American parents may be totally divorced from the church, or entertain grave doubts about the existence of God, but they send their children to Sunday school and help them to pray. American parents struggle in a competitive world where sheer cunning and falsehood are often rewarded and respected, but they feed their children with nursery tales in which the morally good is pitted against the bad, and in the end the good inevitably is successful and the bad inevitably punished. When American parents are in serious domestic trouble, they maintain a front of sweetness and light before their children. Even if American parents suffer a major business or personal catastrophe, they feel obliged to turn to their children and say, “Honey, everything is going to be all right.” This American desire to keep the children’ s world separate from that of the adult is exemplified also by the practice of delaying transmission of the news to children when their parents have been killed in an accident. Thus, in summary, American parents face a world of reality while many of their children live in a near-ideal unreal realm where the rules of the parental world do not apply, are watered down, or are even reversed.正确答案： 【参考译文】
成人世界和儿童世界在许多方面泾渭分明。比如说,许多美国人可能从来不去教堂,或者对上帝是否存在十分怀疑,但是他们却会把孩子送到主日学校,教会他们祈祷。美国人生存的社会充满竞争,尔虞我诈才能名利双收,但是在他们教育孩子的幼儿故事里,在好人与坏人的斗争中最终却总是善有善报、恶有恶报。如果美国人出现严重的家庭危机,在孩子们面前,他们表面上却仍然是温柔可亲。即使工作、生活遭遇重大挫折,他们也认为有必要对孩子说:“宝贝儿,一切都会好起来的。”如果大人遭遇事故身亡,不会立刻把噩耗告诉孩子,这种做法也可以说明美国人希望让孩子的世界和成人的世界分离开来。因此,总的来说,美国人生活在现实的世界中,孩子则生活在一个几乎完美的天地里,这里成人世界的规则则不适用,淡化了,甚至完全相反。解析： 暂无解析 -
第12题：
问答题练习1 Parents in China are always trying to help their children, even to make the most important decision for them, regardless of what the children really want, because parents believe it’s all for the benefit of their children. This has led to the result that the children’s growth and education tend to give way to their parents’ wishes. Once the parents decide to sign up an after school class for their children in order to increase their chance of being admitted to a good school, they will stick on their decision, even their children have no interest in it at all. In America, however, parents tend to respect their children, especially when making decisions. Perhaps it is commendable that Chinese parents lay much importance on education, but Chinese parents still need to keep the balance between the parents and children in the perspective of education as the American parents do.正确答案： 在中国,父母总是试图帮助他们的孩子,甚至为他们做重要的决定,而不管孩子想要什么,因为父母相信这样做是为了孩子好。结果,孩子的成长和教育往往屈从于父母的愿望。一旦父母决定为他们的孩子报名参加一个课外班,以增加他们被好学校录取的机会,他们会坚持自己的决定,即使他们的孩子根本不感兴趣。然而在美国,父母往往尊重孩子的意见,尤其是在做决定的时候。也许中国父母非常重视教育是值得称赞的。但是,他们应该向美国父母学习在涉及教育时如何平衡父母与孩子之间的关系。解析：
本题考查的翻译要点有：①regardless of，即不管某种情况；②for the benefit of sb意为“为了某人好”；③give way to表示“屈从于”；④lay much importance on意为“非常重视”；⑤keep the balance between…and…意为“保持……与……之间的平衡”；⑥in the perspective of表示“在……方面，涉及……”。 -
第13题：
My grandfather often______me interesting stories in my childhood.
A、tells
B、told
C、tell
D、telled
正确答案：B
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第14题：
By saying “Middle children are invisible” in paragraph 3, Lewis means that middle children 。
A. have to help their parents to serve dinner
B. get the least attention from the family
C. are often kept away from the dinner table
D. find it hard to keep up with other children
正确答案：B文章第三段提到 Lewis found that in families with three or four children, dinner conversation is likely to center on the oldest child, who has the most to talk about, and the youngest, who needs the most attention. 可以看出老大和老小都是谈话的焦点，只有中间的孩子是被人忽视的。 -
第15题：
Which of the following statements is NOT true?
A. Latchkey children feel free at home.
B. Working parents often leave their children alone at home.
C. Many parents do not admit that they leave their children alone.
D. Latchkey children have to learn to take care of themselves.
正确答案：A45．答案为A 根据第三段和最后一段得知钥匙儿童独自在家，感到的不是自由，而是恐惧。
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第16题：
Text 2 With so much focus on children’s use of screens,it's easy for parents to forget about their own screen use.“Tech is designed to really suck on you in,”says Jenny Radesky in her study of digital play,"and digital products are there to promote maximal engagement.It makes it hard to disengage,and leads to a lot of bleed-over into the family routine.”Radesky has studied the use of mobile phones and tablets at mealtimes by giving mother-child pairs a food-testing exercise.She found that mothers who sued devices during the exercise started 20 percent fewer verbal and 39 percent fewer nonverbal interactions with their children.During a separate observation,she saw that phones became a source of tension in the family.Parents would be looking at their emails while the children would be making excited bids for their attention.Infants are wired to look at parents’faces to try to understand their world,and if those faces are blank and unresponsive—as they often are when absorbed in a device－it can be extremely disconcerting foe the children.Radesky cites the“still face experiment”devised by developmental psychologist Ed Tronick in the 1970s.In it,a mother is asked to interact with her child in a normal way before putting on a blank expression and not giving them any visual social feedback;The child becomes increasingly distressed as she tries to capture her mother’s attention."Parents don't have to be exquisitely parents at all times,but there needs to be a balance and parents need to be responsive and sensitive to a child’s verbal or nonverbal expressions of an emotional need,"says Radesky.On the other hand,Tronick himself is concerned that the worries about kids'use of screens are born out of an“oppressive ideology that demands that parents should always be interacting”with their children:“It’s based on a somewhat fantasized,very white,very upper-middle-class ideology that says if you’re failing to expose your child to 30,000 words you are neglecting them.”Tronick believes that just because a child isn’t learning from the screen doesn’t mean there’s no value to it－particularly if it gives parents time to have a shower,do housework or simply have a break from their child.Parents,he says,can get a lot out of using their devices to speak to a friend or get some work out of the way.This can make them feel happier,which lets then be more available to their child the rest of the time.
Radesky’s cites the“still face experiment”to show that_____A.it is easy for children to get used to blank expressions
B.verbal expressions are unnecessary for emotional exchange
C.children are insensitive to changes in their parents’mood
D.parents need to respond to children's emotional needs答案：D解析：根据题干关键词“still face experiment”可以定位到第三段第二、三、四句，其中第三句介绍了这个实验的过程和发现，指出母亲由正常交流变得面无表情时，孩子为吸引母亲关注变得越来越苦恼，第四句中罗德斯基点评父母应该对孩子情感需求的言语或非言语表达足够敏感并有所反应，由此可知，“静止面部实验”表明父母应该回应孩子的情感需求，正确答案为D。 -
第17题：
共用题干
第三篇
Generation Gap
A few years ago,it was fashionable to speak of a generation gap,a division between young people and
their elders.Parents complained that children did not show them proper respect and obedience,while children
complained that their parents did not understand them at all.What had gone wrong?Why had the generation
gap suddenly appeared?Actually,the generation gap has been around for a long time.Many critics argue
that it is built into the fabric of our society.
One important cause of the generation gap is the opportunity that young people have to choose their own
life styles.In more traditional societies,when children grow up,they are expected to live in the same area
as their parents,to marry people that their parents know and approve of,and often to continue the family occupation.
In our society,young people often travel great distances for their education,most out of the family home at
an early age,marry or live or choose occupations different from those of their parents.
In our upwardly mobile society,parents often expect their children to do better than they did: to find
better jobs,to make more money,and to do all the things that they were unable to do.Often,however,the
ambitions that parents have for their children are another cause of the division between them.Often they dis-
cover that they have very little in common with each other.
Finally,the speed at which changes take place in our society is another cause of the gap between the
generations.In a traditional culture,elderly people are valued for their wisdom,but in our society the
knowledge of a lifetime may become obsolete overnight.
The young and the old seem to live in two very different worlds,separated by different skills and abilities.
No doubt,the generation gap will continue to be a feature of American life for some time to come.Its causes
are rooted in the freedoms and opportunities of our society,and in the rapid pace at which society changes.In American society,young people often________.
A:rely on their parents to make a living
B:stay with their parents in order to get an opportunity for higher education
C:seek the best advice fromn their parents
D:have very little in common with their parents答案：D解析：由文章第一段最后一句话“Many critics argue that it is built into the fabric of our society", 可知很多评论家认为代沟问题是美国社会的组成部分。故选B。
around的意思是“围绕；在……附近”，在文章中是指代沟问题已经存在了一段时间，故选D。
文章中提到三个原因。由第二段第一句话，可知选项A年轻人喜欢选择他们自己的生活方式是代沟形成的原囚之一。由文章第三段第一句话，可知选项C父母对子女的高期望也是代沟形成的原因之一。由文章第四段第一句话，可知选项B美国社会的快速发展是代沟形成的原因之一。故选D。
由文章倒数第二段“The young and the old seeni to live in two very different worlds, separa-ted by different skills and abilities"，可知年轻人和老年人由于技术和能力的不同被分隔在两个不同的世界里。故选D。
文章中没有提到代沟问题该如何解决，仅仅提到代沟形成的原因，所以可以排除A、B、 D。 C项说代沟问题在某种程度上说是由老一代造成的，是正确的。 -
第18题：
共用题干
Generation Gap A few years ago,it was fashionable to speak of a generation gap,a division between young people and their elders.Parents complained that children did not show them proper respect and obedience,while children complained that their parents did not understand them at all.
What had gone wrong?Why had the generation gap suddenly appeared?Actually,the generation gap has been around for a long time.Many critics argue that it is built into the fabric of our society.
One important cause of the generation gap is the opportunity that young people have to choose their own life styles.In more traditional societies,when children grow up,they are expected to live in the same area as their parents,to marry people that their parents know and approve of, and often to continue the family occupation.
In our society,young people often travel great distances for their education,most out of the family home at an early age,marry or live or choose occupations different from those of their parents. In our upwardly mobile society,parents often expect their children to do better than they did:to find better jobs,to make more money,and to do all the things that they were unable to do.
Often,however,the ambitions that parents have for their children are another cause of the division between them.Often they dis-cover that they have very little in common with each other. Finally,the speed at which changes take place in our society is another cause of thie gap between the generations.In a traditional culture,elderly people are valued for their wisdom,but in our society the knowledge of a lifetime may become obsolete overnight.
The young and the old seem to live in two very different worlds,separated by different skills and abilities, No doubt,the generation gap will continue to be a feature of American life for some time to come.Its causes are rooted in the freedoms and opportunities of our society,and in the rapid pace at which society changes.In American society,young people often______.
A:rely on their parents to make a living
B:stay with their parents in order to get an opportunity for higher education
C:seek the best advice from their parents
D:have very little in common with their parents答案：D解析：文章第一段主要讲述了美国社会中所存在的代沟问题：父母抱怨孩子们不够尊敬和服从他们；孩子们抱怨父母不理解他们。实际上，该问题已经存在了很长一段时间。评论家认为代沟已经成为美国社会结构的一部分。由此可见，代沟是美国的一种特征。因此B为正确答案。
由文章第一段倒数第二句话可知，代沟问题已经存在了很长时间。around在此处意思是“存在”，与in existence（存在）意思相近。因此D为正确答案。
文章从三方面讲述了代沟形成的原因。由第二段第一句话可知，形成代沟的一个重要原因是年轻人必须选择自己的生活方式；由第三段第一句话可知，父母对孩子期望过高也是代沟形成的一个原因；由第四段第一句话可知，社会的快速变化也是导致代沟形成的原因。而文中并未提到现代教育使得孩子与父母想法不同的问题。因此D为正确答案。
由文章第三段最后一句话可知，父母和孩子会发现彼此之间几乎没有相似之处。因此D为正确答案。
文章主要讲的是美国社会中所存在的代沟问题及其形成的原因，并没有提到如何解决这一问题，因此排除A.B选项；而D项（美国社会应该避免代沟问题）文中也未提及.由文章第三段可知，父母对孩子期望过高也是形成代沟的原因。因此C为正确答案。 -
第19题：
单选题Parents and children often disagree about what is important or right because _____.Athey have different styles of life
Bthey hate each other
Cparents think that their children are troublemakers
Dthey are in a society of rapidly changing social and moral values
正确答案： A解析：
细节题。根据第二段的首句“But in a society of rapidly changing social and moral values, parents and children often disagree about what is important and what is right”可知答案应为D项。 -
第20题：
单选题Which of the following is NOT true about the teenagers’ attitude towards their parents?AThey yearn for the respect and approval from their parents.
BThey want a private space without being invaded by their parents.
CThey usually have a conversation with their parents in unequal positions.
DThey resist parents’ remarks due to their disbelief of parents’ judgments.
正确答案： C解析：
细节题。由第五段第二句和第九段尾句可知，青少年渴望得到父母的尊重和肯定，故选项A正确。第四段第二句提到，父母坚持认为他们有了解孩子的权力，而孩子们却迫切地保护自己的私人空间，因此选项B正确。由第五段首句可知，孩子们能立刻判断出父母对待他们的语气是轻蔑还是屈尊俯就，然后用敌对的态度来掩饰他们的脆弱，故可推断父母与孩子的谈话通常是建立在不平等的处境上，故C项正确。文章第五段提到，无论我们如何假装不在乎你们所说的话，其实我们都是相信的，由此可见，D项表述错误，故答案为D项。 -
第21题：
问答题Few people would defend the Victorian attitude of children, (1) _______but if you were a parent in those days, at least you know where (2) _______you stood; children were to be seen and not heard. Freud andcompany did away with all that and parents have been bewilderedever since. The child’s happiness is all-important, the psychologists say,but what about the parents’ happiness? Parents suffer constantly with (3) _______fear and guilt while their children gaily romp about pull the (4) _______place apart. A good old-fashion spanking is out of the question (5) _______no modern child-rearing manual would permit such barbarity.The trouble is you are not allowed even to shout at: Who knows (6) _______what deep psychological wounds you might inflict? The poorchild may recover from the dreadful traumatic experience. Soit is that parents bend over backwards to avoid to give their (7) _______children complexes which a hundred years ago hadn’t even beenheard of. Certainly a child needs love, and a lot of it. But theexcessive permissiveness of modern parents is surely doing moreharm than good. Psychologists have succeeded in underminingparents’ confidence in their own authority. And it has taken children (8) _______long to get wind of the fact. There are countless articles inmagazines and newspapers. With so much unsolicited advicefly about, parents do nothing at all. And the children take complete (9) _______control. What else can the poor parents do but obey? But thepsychologists have much to answer. They should keep their mouths (10) _______shut and let the parents get on with the job. This will at least helpthe children to develop vigorous views of their own and give themsomething positive to react against.正确答案：
1.of改为to/toward attitude后使用介词to或toward表示“对……的态度”。
2.know改为knew 此处讲的是维多利亚时期的情况,应用过去时态。
3.with改为from suffer from是固定搭配,意为“受……之苦”。
4.pull改为pulling 现在分词短语作状语,表示伴随。
5.old-fashion改为old-fashioned 复合形容词的构成应是“形容词+名词-ed形式”。
6.去掉at at后应该跟动作发生的对象,此处没有针对对象。
7.to give改为giving 动词avoid后面只能跟动名词而不能跟不定式作宾语。
8.将has改为hasn’t 句意:没多久孩子们就发现了这一事实。可见助动词应用否定式。
9.fly改为flying 此处为“with+ sth.+ v-ing”构成的独立分词结构,作状语。
10.在answer后加for answer for对……负责。解析： 暂无解析 -
第22题：
单选题In some child-centered families, the children and their possessions take over most of the house, and the younger ones often make _____ demands upon their parents.Aexceeding
Bextensive
Cexclusive
Dexcessive
正确答案： B解析：
句意：在一些以孩子为中心的家庭里，孩子和他们的东西占据了房屋的大部分空间，而且年龄稍小一点的孩子还常常对父母提出过多的要求。excessive过分的，过多的，可以用来修饰demands，通过分析句子可判断，在这个家中，年龄小点的孩子会对父母提出“过多的”要求。因此D为正确答案。exceeding极度的，非常的，表示程度，一般不用于修饰demands。extensive广阔的，广泛的，指范围大，也不能用来形容demands。exclusive排他的，惟一的。 -
第23题：
单选题The _____ from childhood to manhood is often a difficult time for a young man.Aadjustment
Btransformation
Ctransition
Dadmission
正确答案： B解析：
transition转变，过渡。adjustment调整。transformation改变，改造。admission接纳，承认。