Question

Parents should stop blaming themselves because there’s not a lot they can do about it. I mean the teenager problem, the one I want to talk about as a specialist. Whatever you do or however you choose to deal with it, at certain times a wonderful, reasonable and helpful child will turn into a terrible animal.

I’ve seen friends deal with it in all kinds of different ways. One strict mother insisted that her son, right from a child, should stand up whenever anyone entered the room, open doors and shake hands like a gentleman. I saw him last week when I dropped in on them. Sprawling himself (懒散地躺) on the sofa in full length, he made no attempt to turn off the loud TV he was watching as I walked in, and his greeting was no more than a quick glance at me. His mother was ashamed. “I don't know what to do with him these days,” she said. “He’s forgotten all the manners we taught him.”

He hasn’t forgotten them. He’s just decided that he’s not going to use them. She admitted that she would like to come up behind him and throw him down from the sofa onto the floor.

Another good friend of mine let her two daughters climb all over the furniture, reach across the table, stare at me and say, “I don’t like your dress; it’s ugly.” One of the daughters has recently been driven out of school. The other has left home.

“Where did we go wrong?” her parents are now very sad. Probably nowhere much. At least, no more than the rest of that unfortunate race, parents.

1.Who is probably the author of the text?

A. A doctor for mental health problems.

B. A headmaster of a middle school.

C. A parent without teenage children.

D. A specialist in teenager studies.

2.What does the underlined word “it” in the second paragraph refer to?

A. The advice that parents want their children to follow

B. The change from good to bad that’s seen in a child

C. The opinion that a child has of his parents

D. The way that parents often blame themselves

3.What we can infer about the parents from the second example?

A. They pay no attention to the two daughters.

B. They feel helpless to do much about the two daughters.

C. They have come to hate the two daughters gradually.

D. They are too busy to look after the two daughters.

4.What is the author's opinion about the sudden change in teenage children?

A. Parents have no choice but to try to accept it.

B. Parents are at fault for the change in their children.

C. Parents should work more closely with school teachers.

D. Parents should pay still more attention to the change.

Answer

1.D

2.B

3.B

4.A

【解析】

这是一篇议论文。文章主要讲了家长们应该停止自责，因为对于青少年问题，没有很多他们可以做的，不论你做什么或选择如何去处理它，在某一时间，一个很棒的，合情合理的、爱帮助人的孩子会变成一个可怕的动物。

1.细节理解题。答案定位在第一段I mean the teenager problem, the one I want to talk about as a specialist.可知作者是青少年问题的专家，故选D。

2.推理判断题。答案定位在第一段Whatever you do or however you choose to deal with it, at certain times a wonderful, reasonable and helpful child will turn into a terrible animal.中说了孩子从一个很棒的，合情合理的、爱帮助人的孩子变成一个可怕的动物。由此推断出“it”指的是看得到的一个孩子由好变坏，故选B。

3.推理判断题。答案定位在最后一段“Where did we go wrong?” her parents are now very sad. Probably nowhere much. At least, no more than the rest of that unfortunate race, parents.可推知对于这两个女孩，他们的父母感觉无助，故选B。

4.推理判断题。答案定位在第一段Parents should stop blaming themselves because there’s not a lot they can do about it.父母应该停止自责，因为他们束手无策，由此推断出父母们别无选择，只能尽力接受，故选A。