Question

Parents should stop blaming themselves because there’s not a lot they can do about it. I mean the teenager problem. 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 called round. 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 confessed (坦白) 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.This text is most probably written by ______.

A．a doctor for mental health problems

B．a headmaster of a middle school

C．a parent with teenage children

D．a specialist in teenager studies

2.The underlined word “it” in the second paragraph refers 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.From the second example we can infer that the parents of the two daughters ______.

A．pay no attention to them

B．feel helpless to do much about them

C．have come to hate them

D．are too busy to look after them

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

A．Parents should work more closely with school teachers.

B．Parents should pay still sore attention to the change.

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

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

Answer

1.D

2.B

3.B

4.C

【解析】

试题分析：本文讲述了在儿童教育方面，父母很多情况下都是无能为力，只能接受这个现实。

1.D 推理题。根据第一段1,2行Parents should stop blaming themselves because there’s not a lot they can do about it. I mean the teenager problem.说明本文中的“I”是一个儿童教育方面的专家，故D项正确。

2.B 推理题，这里的It就是指上一段最后3行的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.一个孩子从很好的人变成了一个没有礼貌的家伙，故B正确。

3.B 推断题。根据最后一段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.说明题目对两个女儿也根据没有办法的。故B正确。

4.C 推理题。根据文章第一段Parents should stop blaming themselves because there’s not a lot they can do about it.说明父母面对这样的问题只能接受，别无办法。故C正确。

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