C

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 (供认) 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.

66. This passage 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

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

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

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

A. the parents’ opinion B. the terrible animal

C. the teenage problem D. the parents’ advice

69. 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

70. What is the author’s opinion of the sudden change in teenage children?

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

B. Parents should pay much attention to the change.

C. Parents should work closely with school teachers.

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

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第一节 单词拼写(共10题，每小题0.5分，满分5分)

根据首字母或汉语提示写出句子中所缺的单词(注意适当格式)。(共5分)

71. She has a rather poor o _____ of your written work.

72. He needs a high income to ______(支撑) such a large family.

73. Production in the factories stopped because of ______(频繁) power failures.

74. Many people wisely set ______(留下) some money to use when they get old.

75. He g _____ as an M. D. at Edinburgh University last year.

76. I’m sorry I don’t know you. Maybe you are _____(混淆) me with someone else.

77. I was a______ about the children when they didn’t come back home from school.

78. W ______ you choose to live, there are always going to be advantages and disadvantages.

79. The teams from different schools held a______(辩论) after the exam.

80. Some important government _____(官员) have been invited to the opening ceremony.

71. ________ 72. ________ 73. ________ 74. ________

75. ________ 76. ________ 77. ________ 78. ________

79. ________ 80. ________