题目内容
I hear many parents say that their teenagers are too independent.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 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 bravely on their own,most of them are trying to seize at one another’s hands for safety.
They say they want to dress as they please.But they all wear the same clothes.They set off in new directions in music.But the reason for thinking or acting in thusandsuch 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 opened up a teenager market.These days every teenager can learn from newspapers and TV what a teenager should have and be.And many of today’s parents have come to award (奖励) high marks for the popularity of their children.All this adds up to great difficulty for the teenager who wants to find his or her own path.
But the difficulty is worth getting 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.
60.The writer’s purpose in writing this text is to tell________.
A.readers how to be popular in the world
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
61.Teenagers should________,according to the text.
A.rebel against their parents
B.find their real self
C.become different from others in as many ways as possible
D.obey what their parents say
62.Which of the following is NOT true according to the text?
A.People will respect you if you share your thoughts with others.
B.Some parents are actually keeping their children from finding their own paths.
C.It is not necessarily bad for a teenager to disagree with his or her classmates.
D.Most teenagers say they want to do what they like to,but in fact they are not doing the same.
63.What does the underlined word “counts” in the last paragraph mean?
A.To recite or list numbers.
B.To have value or importance.
C.To share some thoughts.
D.To be different.
60.B 细节理解题。作者在分析十多岁的少男少女们追求独立之路所遇到的种种困难之后,鼓励他们应克服困难追求独立。A项“告诉读者怎样让自己受世人欢迎”;C项“告诉父母怎样管理和指导自己的孩子”;D项“告诉人们怎样互相理解互相尊重”都与文章内容不一致。
61.B 主旨大意题。从短文最后一段中的“Find yourself.Be yourself.Popularity will come...”来推断,作者鼓励青少年们追求自我、追求独立的个性。
62.A 细节理解题。从倒数第二句中“with the people who respect you for who you are”可以推知,人们敬佩的是那些具有独立意识和个性的人,不是一些“从众”的人。B项可从第三段第四句得知;C项可从第四段得出;D项可由第二段推断出。
63.B 词意猜测题。由句子意思“真正起作用的正是这种名气”可以猜测出count意为“起作用”。