Question

Parents should stop blaming themselves because there’s not a lot they can do about it. I mean the teenager (十几岁的孩子) 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.

71．This text is most probably written by ______.

A．a specialist in teenager studies             B．a headmaster of a middle school

C．a parent with teenage children              D．a doctor for mental health problems

72．The underlined word “it” in the second paragraph refers to ______.

A．the change from good to bad that ' s seen in a child

B．die way that parents often blame themselves

C．the opinion that a child has of his parents

D．the advice that parents want their children to follow

73．The boy on the sofa would most probably be described as ______.

A．lazy                   B．quiet                  C．unusual              D．rude

74．From the second example we can infer that the parents of the two daughters ______.

A．pay no attention to them                      B．are too busy to look after them

C．have come to hate them                     D．feel helpless to do much about them

75．What is the author' a opinion about the sudden change in teenage children?

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

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

C．Parents should work more closely with school teachers.

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

Answer 1

71.A 

解析：从文章第一段可以看出作者提出了自己的观点Parents should stop blaming themselves，父母应该停止对孩子的责备。然后第二、三段谈了一些具体的例子，来说明责备对孩子所产生的影响。我们据此可以推断出：他是一个研究青少年期的孩子问题的专家。别的选项均不符合文章的意思。

72.A 

解析：根据文章第二段的意思，可以知道父母有的时候的做法是错误的。

73.D 

解析：根据文章第二段的意思，一位严厉的母亲想把她的孩子培养成一个绅士，但是她孩子后来对客人的表现却是很不礼貌的。

74.D

解析：第二个母亲让她的两个孩子随心所欲的做她们的事情，她对她们已经失去了希望，后来一个孩子被赶出学校，另一个离家出走。

75.A 

解析：见文章最后一句的意思。