Whydoyoungadultchildrenbecomeindependentsomuchlaterthan...

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Why do young adult children become independent so much later than they did in 1970，when the average age of independent living was 21? Why have reduced class sizes and increased per-pupil expenditures (花销）not  13   higher academic achievement levels? Why is the mental health of today’s kids so poor when   14   with that of children in the 1960s and before? Why do today’s  15   become defensive when told by teachers that their children have misbehaved in school?

The answer in two words: parental   16   . Those two words best summarize the   17   between “old” child raising and new, post-1960s parenting. Then, the overall philosophy was that parents were not to be   18   involved with their kids. They were available   19   crisis, but they stood a (an)   20   distance from their kids and allowed them to experience the benefits of the trial-and-error process. It was the child’s   21  , back then, to keep his or her parents from getting involved. That was   22   children learned to be responsible and determined.

Today’s parents help their kids with almost everything. These are parents who are   23   when it comes to an understanding of their purpose in their kids，lives. Their involvement leads them to personalize everything that happens to their kids;   24  , the defensiveness. But given that schools and mental health professionals have been pushing parent involvement for nearly four decades, the confusion and defensiveness are   25   .

University researchers analyzed three decades of data relating to parent participation in children’s academics. Their conclusions   26   what I’ve been saying since the 1980s: parental help with homework   27   a child’s academic achievement and is not reflected on standardized tests.

Parents who manage a child’s social life interfere with the   28   of good social skills. Parents who manage a child’s after-school activities grow kids who don’t know how to   29   their own free time. Parents who get involved in their kids,   30   with peers grow kids who don’t know how to avoid much less trouble.

These kids have anxieties and fears of all sorts and don’t want to leave their   31  . And their parents, when the time comes, don’t know how to   32   being parents. You can imagine what will become of their future.

13. A. counted on              B. resulted in                     C. touched on                    D. taken in

14. A. associated        B. linked                      C. compared               D. matched

15. A. parents                    B. adolescents                   C. psychologists         D. youths

16. A. assistance        B. protection               C. involvement            D. preference

17. A. differences        B. similarities               C. choices                   D. relations

18. A. slightly                     B. passively                C. highly                            D. fairly

19. A. in case of          B. in spite of                C. in view of                D. in fear of

20. A. equal                B. safe                        C. long                        D. short

21 A. fault                   B. turn                         C. job                          D. attitude[

22. A. when                 B. how                         C. why                         D. what

23. A. confused           B. disappointed           C. amazed                  D. satisfied

24. A. however            B. still                          C. yet                          D. thus

25. A. unreasonable          B. changeable                   C. understandable             D. avoidable

26. A. confirmed          B. convinced               C. realized                  D. reflected

27. A. decides                    B. lowers                            C. helps                      D. stimulates

28. A. appearance             B. performance           C. establishment         D. development

29. A. value                 B. devote                           C. fill                           D. save

30. A. communication  B. conflicts                  C. cooperation                   D. competitions

31. A. home                B. school                            C. career                           D. profession

32. A. start                  B. ignore                            C. consider                 D. stop

【回答】

36-40 BCACA  41-45 CABCB  56-50 ADCAB  51-55 DCBAD

知识点：教育类

题型：完型填空