When I was a teenager,I______a lot and people couldn’t understand what I was sayingA.compl
When I was a teenager,I______a lot and people couldn’t understand what I was saying
A.complained
B.mumbled
C.uttered
D.gossiped
When I was a teenager,I______a lot and people couldn’t understand what I was saying
A.complained
B.mumbled
C.uttered
D.gossiped
I think it is true that parents often underestimate their teenage children and also forget how they themselves felt when young
Reading Comprehension
Directions:There are two passages in this part. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A,B,C and D.You should decide on the best choice.
Questions 56-60 are based on Passage One:
Passage One
The evidence for harmony may not be obvious in some families. But it seems that four out of five young people now get on with their parents, which is the opposite of the popularly-held image<形象)of unhappy teenagers locked in their room after endless family quarrels.
An important new study into teenage attitudes surprisingly shows that their family life is more harmonious than it has ever been in the past.“We were surprised by just how positive today's young people seem to be about their families,”said one member of the research team,“They're expected to be rebellious(叛逆的)and selfish,but actually they have other things in their minds: they want a car and material goods, and they worry about whether school is serving them well.there's more negotiation(商议)and discussion between parents and children, and children expect to take part in the family decision-making process. Theydon't want to rock the boat.”
So it seems that this generation of parents is much more likely than parents of 30 years ago to treat their children as friends. “My parents are happy to discuss things with me and willing to listen to me,”says 17-year-old Daniel Lazall,“I always tell them when I'm going out clubbing.As long as they know what I'm doing, they're fine with it.” Susan Crome, who is now 21, agrees.“Looking back on the last 10 years, there was a lot of what you could call negotiation.For example, as long as I'd done all my homework, I could go out on a Saturday night. But I think my grand-parents were a lot stricter with my parents than that. ”
Maybe this positive view of family life should not be unexpected.It is possible that theidea of teenage rebellion is not rooted in real facts. A researcher comments,“Our surprise that teenagers say they get along well with their parents comes because of a brief period in our social history when teenagers were regarded as different beings.But that idea of rebelling and breaking away from their parents really only happened during that one time in the 1960s when everyone rebelled. The normal situation t]iroughout history has been a smooth change from helping out with the family business to taking it over. ”
What is the popular image of teenagers today?()
A. They worry about school.
B. They dislike living with their parents.
C. They have to be locked in to avoid troubles.
D. They quarrel a lot with other family members.
A.finance
B.error
C.stage
D.approach
A.assume
B.yield
C.abandon
D.restrain
【C1】
A.is
B.were
C.have been
D.had been
听力原文: When we think about happiness, we usually think of something extraordinary, a feeling of sheer delight, and those feelings seem to get rarer the older we get.
For a child, happiness has a magical quality. I remember making hide-outs in newly cut hay, playing cops and robbers in the woods, getting a speaking part in the school play. Of course, kids also experience lows, but their delight at such peaks of pleasure as winning a race or getting a new bike is unreserved.
In the teenage years the concept of happiness changes. Suddenly it is conditional on such things as excitement, love, popularity and whether that red spot will clear up before party night. I can still feel the agony of not being invited to a party that almost everyone else was going to. But I also recall the details of being invited at another event to dance with a John Travolta look-alike.
In adulthood the things that bring profound joy—birth, love, marriage—also bring responsibility and the risk of loss. Love may not last, sex is not always good, loved ones die. For adults, happiness is complicated.
While happiness may be complex for us, the solution is the same. Happiness is not about what happens to us, it is about how we perceive what happens to us. It is the knack of finding a positive for every negative, and viewing a setback as a challenge. It is not wishing for what we do not have, but enjoying what we do possess.
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A.Happiness at different stages of life.
B.The concept of happiness.
C.Experiences of all kinds of happiness.
D.How to find happiness.
Section B
Directions: There are 2 passages in this section. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. You should decide on the best choice.
I hear many parents complaining that their teenage children are rebelling. I wish it were so. At your age you ought to be growing away from your parents. You should be learning to stand on your own two feet. But take a good look at the present rebellion. It seems that teenagers are all taking the same way of showing that they disagree with their parents. Instead of striking out boldly on their own, most of them are clutching at (attempting to seize) one another' s hands for reassurance.
They claim they want to dress as they please. But they all wear the same clothes. They set off in new directions in music. But somehow they all end up crowded round listening to the same record. Their reason for thinking or acting in thus-and-such a way is that the crowd is doing it. They have come out of their cocoon (蚕茧) --into a larger cocoon.
It has become harder and harder for a teenager to stand up against the popularity wave and to go his or her own way. Industry has firmly carved out a teenage market. These days every teenager can learn from the advertisements what a teenager should have and be. And many of today' s parents have come to award high marks for the popularity of their children. All this adds up to a great barrier for the teenager who wants to find his or her own path.
But the barrier is worth climbing over. The path is worth following. You may want to collect rocks when everyone else is collecting records. You may have some thoughts that you don' t care to share at once with your classmates. Well, go to it. Find yourself. Be yourself. Popularity will come--with the people who respect you for who you are. That' s the only kind of popularity that really accounts.
What is the meaning of the sentence "And many of today' s parents have come to award high marks for the popularity of their children" in Lines 3-4 of Paragraph 3 ?
A.Many parents want to be popular with their children.
B.Many parents want their children to be top students.
C.Many parents will give some good prizes to their children when they have got high scores.
D.Many parents are paying much attention to whether their children are popular among peers.
The author decided to live a car-free life______.
A.after his car was damaged beyond repair
B.after he was hurt in a terrible car accident
C.because maintaining a car was too costly
D.because the traffic jam was too much for him
A.the anti-smoking advertisements are not convincing owing to their exaggeration
B.the teenage smokers developed the habit of smoking out of the compulsory pressure from their schoolmates
C.smoking is a relatively low-costing bad habit
D.one can always get cigarettes in pubs when vending machines are removed
They claim they want to dress as they please. But they all wear the same clothes. They set off in new directions in music. But somehow they all end up crowded round listening to the same record. Their reason for thinking or acting in thus—and—such a way is that the crowd is doing it. They have come out of their cocoons(蚕茧) into a larger cocoon.
It has become harder and harder for a teenager to stand up against the popularity wave and to go his or her own way. Industry has firmly carved out a teenage market. These days every teenager can learn from the advertisements what a teenager should have and be. And many of today's parents have come toward high marks for the popularity of their children. All this adds up to a great barrier for the teenager who wants to find his or her own path. But the barrier is worth climbing over. The path is worth following. You may want to listen to classical music instead of going to a party. You may want to collect rocks when everyone else is collecting records. You may have some thoughts that you don't care to share at once with your classmates. Well, go to it. Find yourself. Be yourself. Popularity will come—with the people who respect you for who you are. That's the only kind of popularity that really counts.
The author’s purpose in writing this passage is to tell ______.
A.readers how to be popular with around
B.teenagers how to learn to decide things for themselves
C.parents how to control and guide their children
D.people how to understand and respect each other
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