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　　Parents and kids today dress alike, listen to the same music, and are friends．Is this a good thing? Sometimes, when Mr．Ballmer and his 16-year-old daughter, Elizabeth, listen to rock music together and talk about interests they both enjoy, such as pop culture, he remembers his more distant relationship with his parents when he was a teenager．

　　“I would never have said to my mom, ‘Hey, the latest film is really great．How do you like it?'” says Ballmer．“There was just a complete gap in taste．”

　　Film was not the only gulf．From clothing and hairstyles to activities and expectations, earlier generations of parents and children often appeared to move in their own circles．

　　Today, the generation gap(代沟)has not disappeared, but it is getting smaller in many families．Conversations on subjects such as sex and drugs would not have taken place a generation ago．Now they are common．And parent-child activities, from shopping to sports, involve a feeling of trust and friendship that can continue into adulthood．

　　No wonder greeting cards today carry the message, “To my mother, my best friend．”

　　But family experts warn that the new equality(平等)between parents and kids may also result in less respect for parents．“There's still a lot of strictness and power on the part of parents out there, but there is a change happening,” says Kerrie, a psychology professor at Lebanon Valley College．“In the middle of that change, there is a lot of confusion(困惑)among parents．”

　　Family researchers offer a variety of reasons for these changing roles and attitudes．They see the 1960s as a turning point．Great cultural changes led to more open communication that encourages everyone to have a say．

　　“My parents were on the ‘before' side of that change, but today's parents, the 40-year-olds, were on the ‘after' side,” explains Mr．Ballmer．“It's not something easily carried through by parents these days, because life is more difficult to understand or deal with, but sharing interests does make it more fun to be a parent now．”

(1)

What does the underlined word “gulf” in Paragraph 3 probably mean?
[　　]
A．	Interest．
B．	Distance．
C．	Different．
D．	Connection．

(2)

Which of the following shows that the generation gap is getting smaller?
[　　]
A．	Parents share more interests with their children．
B．	Parents show less strictness to their young children．
C．	Parents help their children find interests in activities．
D．	Parents share more cultural changes with their children．

(3)

The change in today's parent-child relationship is ________．
[　　]
A．	more confusion among parents
B．	less respect for parents from children
C．	new equality between parents and children
D．	more strictness and power on the part of parents

(4)

The writer writes the passage to ________．
[　　]
A．	describe the difficulties today's parents have met with
B．	discuss the development of the parent-child relationship
C．	suggest the ways to deal with the parent-child relationship
D．	compare today's parent-child relationship with that in the past

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    Tina Lin was not like many of her classmates. She didn't listen to popular music. She didn't watch many
movies, and she wasn't interested in nice clothes.
     When she got   1   with her friends at a party, Tina found her friends preferred rock and pop music.
When Tina   2   if they would like to try classical music, they all looked at her strangely.
     "  3   music is for old people," one of her friends said.
     Tina was   4   that something was wrong with her. She decided to   5   her father. As she entered his
study, he could feel something was wrong.
   "Dad, am I strange?" she asked her   6  .
     "Of course not," he answered, "Why do you ask that?"
    "Because I don't   7   the same things as my classmates. They want to listen to pop music. I like classical
music."
      "I think I understand. Never mind, Tina.   8   all right to be your own person. You don't have to copy
what other people do. Everybody   9   different tastes (品味). Some of them are popular,  10  others aren't."
     After Tina spoke with her father, she felt better about herself. She realized that being different made her
special. It was an important lesson for her to learn.

(     )1. A. up
(     )2. A. asked
(     )3. A. Pop
(     )4. A. proud
(     )5. A. talk to
(     )6. A. friend
(     )7. A. have
(     )8. A. It's
(     )9. A. have
(     )10. A. but

B. angry
B. found
B. Rock
B. worried
B. look for
B. father
B. know
B. That's
B. has
B. so

C. together
C. noticed
C. Classical
C. glad
C. write to
C. classmate
C. like
C. You're
C. had
C. for

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“Tomato plants at the Royal Horticultural Society’s(英国皇家园艺学会) gardens will listen to voices through MP3 earphones for 30 days,” a reporter told people in a newspaper. At a time, many English people couldn’t believe in such a thing and some people even laughed at it.

Gardeners did the experiment by themselves. They wrote down how the tomato plants grew before, during and after the experiment. And then they compared the results with other tomato plants.

“We are taking it very seriously even though a lot of people may think it is a joke. However, studies show that certain sounds do help plants grow better,” the gardeners told a reporter.

“We want to get different kinds of voices. Through this experiment, we hope to find the most plant-friendly human sound for plants to grow,” said the gardeners.

“The plants will listen to poems, stories and songs,” the gardeners added.

Now, let our plants enjoy beautiful music.

1.How did the Royal gardens prove （证明）themselves?

A. Through the reporter himself.

B. By the experiment done by gardeners.

C. Through the gardeners and reporter.

D. By the results from common gardens.

2.By the experiment, we can learn that .

A. stories especially suit green plants

B. many plants prefer the same voices

C. some plants prefer to talk to people

D. some sounds help plants grow better