For many parents, raising a teenager is like fighting a long war, but years go by without any clear winner．Like a border conflict between neighboring countries, the parent-teen war is about boundaries: Where is the line between what I control and what you do?

Both sides want peace, but neither feels it has any power to stop the conflict．In part, this is because neither is willing to admit any responsibility for starting it．From the parents’ point of view, the only cause of their fight is their adolescents’ complete unreasonableness．And of course, the teens see it in exactly the same way, except oppositely．Both feel trapped．

In this article, I’ll describe three no-win situations that commonly arise between teens and parents and then suggest some ways out of the trap．The first no-win situation is quarrels over unimportant things．Examples include the color of the teen’s hair, the cleanliness of the bedroom, the preferred style of clothing, the child’s failure to eat a good breakfast before school, or his tendency to sleep until noon on the weekends．Second, blaming．The goal of a blaming battle is to make the other admit that his bad attitude is the reason why everything goes wrong．Third, needing to be right．It doesn’t matter what the topic is — politics, the laws of physics, or the proper way to break an egg — the point of these arguments is to prove that you are right and the other person is wrong, for both wish to be considered an authority — someone who actually knows something — and  therefore to command respect．Unfortunately, as long as long as parents and teens continue to assume that they know more than the other, they’ll continue to fight these battles forever and never make any real progress．

1.Why does the author compare the parent-teen war to a border conflict?

A．both can continue for generations．      B．Both are about where to draw the line．

C．Neither has any clear winner．          D．Neither can be put to an end．

2.What does the underlined part in Paragraph 2 mean?

A．The teens blame their parents for starting the conflict．

B．The teens agree with their parents on the cause of the conflict．

C．The teens accuse their parents of misleading them．

D．The teens tend to have a full understanding of their parents．

3.Parents and teens want to be right because they want to ________．

A．give orders to the other       B．know more than the other

C．gain respect from the other    D．get the other to behave properly

4.What will the author most probably discuss in the paragraph that follows?

A．causes for the parent–teen conflicts      

B．Examples of the parent–teen war．

C．Solutions for the parent–teen problems        

D．Future of the parent–teen relationship

My wife and I used to feel that it was impossible to be a true friend to someone whose name we didn’t know. How wrong we were! Years of Sunday-morning bus trips through the city with the same group of “nameless” people have changed our thinking. Before the bus takes off, we all join in a conversation: where’s the silent woman who sits up front and never responds to our cheery greetings? Here she comes. Her worn clothing suggests she doesn’t have much money to spare, but she always takes an extra cup of coffee for the driver.

We get smiles from a Mexican couple as they get on the bus hand in hand. When they get off, they’re still holding hands. The woman was pregnant late last year, and one day her change of shape confirmed that she’d delivered the child. We even felt a little pride at the thought of our extended family.

For many months, our only sadness lay in our inability to establish the same friendship with the silent woman at the front of the bus. Then, one evening, we went to a fish restaurant. We were shown to a table alongside someone sitting alone. It was the woman from the bus.

We greeted her with friendly familiarity we’d shown all year, but this time her face softened, then a shy smile. When she spoke, the words escaped awkwardly from her lips. All at once we realized why she hadn’t spoken to us before. Talking was hard for her.

Over dinner; we learned the stay of a single mother with a disabled son who was receiving special care away from home. She missed him desperately, she explained.

“I love him… and he loves me, even though he doesn’t express it very well,” she murmured. “Lots of us have that problem, don’t we? We don’t say what we want to say, what we should be saying. And that’s not good enough.”The candles flared on our tables. Our fish had never tasted better. But the atmosphere grew pleasant, and when we parted as friends—we shared names.

1.Which of the following might be the best title of this passage?

2.All the following statements can describe the woman except ______.

3.The underlined word “establish” in the third paragraph probably has the same      meaning as              

4.Why did the woman usually keep silence while taking the bus?

5.The woman had the same problem with her son in the way that ______.

I take the firm position that parents do not owe their children a college education. If they can  __1  it, they can certainly send them to the best universities. But they must not feel guilty if they can’t. If the children really want to go, they’ll find a   2   out. There are plenty of loans（货款）and scholarships for the bright and   3  ones who can’t afford to pay.
When children grow up and want to get  married, their parents do not owe them a down payment on a house. They do not have the   4  to baby-sit their grandchildren. If they want to do it,it must be considered a(n)   5  not an obligation（责任，义务）.
Do parents owe their children anything? Yes,they owe them a great deal.
One of their obligations is to give their children personal   6  .A child who is constantly made to feel stupid and unworthy, constantly  7  to brighter brothers, sisters, or cousins will become so  _8_ , so afraid of failing that he（or she）won’t try at all .Of course they should be __9__ corrected when they do wrong, but it’s often better to let children learn their mistakes by themselves in time.All our parents should do is to trust them, respect them, tolerate（宽容）them and give them chances to try and fail.They must learn to stand   10  .When criticisms（批评）are really needed,they should be  11 with praises,with a smile and a kiss.That is the way children learn.
Parents owe their children a set of solid values around which to build their lives.This means teaching them to  12 the rights and opinions of others;it means being respectful to elders,to teachers,and to the law.The best way to teach such values is by  13  .A child who is lied to will lie.A child who sees no laughter and no love in the home will have   14  laughing and loving.
No child asks to be  15  .If you bring a life into the world,you owe the child something.

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从21～40各题所给的四个选项（A.B.C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题纸上将该选项标号涂黑。

The subway train moved back and forth, its wheels producing more loud sounds than ever against the tracks. Outside the window was just the  21  cold of winter. The carriage was filled with frozen self-centered, bored  22 .

Suddenly a little boy  23  his way in between grown-up legs.  24  his father stayed by the door, the boy sat next to the window, surrounded by  25 , half-awake adults. What a brave child, I thought. As the train entered a tunnel (隧洞), something totally  26  happened. The little boy slid down from his seat and put his  27  on my knee. For a moment, I thought that he wanted to go  28  me and returned to his father, so I moved a bit. But instead of moving on, the boy held his  29  up towards me. He wanted to tell me something, I thought. I  30   to listen to what he had to say. Wrong  31 ! He kissed me softly on the cheek.

Then he returned to his  32 , settled down and cheerfully started looking out of the window. But I was  33. What happened? A kid kissing an unknown grown-up on the train? To my amazement, the kid  34  to kiss all my neighbors. 

Nervous and puzzled, we looked questioningly at his father. “He’s so happy to be  35 .” the father said. “He’s been very sick.”

The train stopped and the father and son got down and  36  into the crowd. The doors closed. On my cheek I could still  37  the child’s kiss -- a kiss that had caused  38  soul-searching. How many grown-ups go around kissing each other  39  the joy of being alive? How many even give much thought to the privilege of living? What would happen  40  we all just started being ourselves?

The little boy has given us a sweet but serious lesson: Don’t let yourself die before your heart stops!

1.A. great               B. freezing     C. strong       D. strange

2.A. drivers        B. boys        C. adults        D. passengers

3.A. pushed        B. left         C. got         D. felt

4.A. As           B. Since        C. If               D. While

5.A. polite          B. unfriendly  C. rude        D. strange

6.A. interesting      B. nervous      C. unexpected D. exciting

7.A. hand          B. face        C. finger       D. mouth

8.A. before         B. beyond       C. with        D. past

9.A. hand          B. luggage      C. head        D. ticket

10.A. got off       B. bent down  C. fell down   D. stood up

11.A. again         B. too         C. even        D. more

12.A. father        B. carriage      C. home        D. seat

13.A. frightened     B. excited       C. shocked      D. worried

14.A. kept on      B. went on      C. moved on   D. tried on

15.A. alive         B. active       C. young       D. awake

16.A. lost          B. joined       C. disappeared       D. rushed

17.A. get          B. find        C. know      D. feel

18.A. some         B. any         C. every        D. no

19.A. for         B. from       C. at           D. by

20.A. after         B. unless       C. if           D. when

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第二节完型填空（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分）

Once upon a time，a man punished his 5-year-old daughter for  31  up the family's only roll of expensive gold wrapping paper. Money was tight and he became even more  32  when on Christmas Eve，he saw that the child had pasted the gold paper so as to  33  a shoe box to put under the Christmas tree.

Nevertheless, the next morning the little girl, filled with excitement, brought the gift box to her father and said, “This is for you，Daddy!”Hearing this，the father was  34 by his earlier conversation. But when he opened it, he found it was  35  and again his anger expanded. “Don’t you know, young lady,” he said   36 ,“when you give someone a present there’s supposed to be something inside the package !”

The little girl looked up at him  37  tears rolling from her eyes and said: “Daddy, it’s not empty. I blew kisses into it until it was all full.”

The father was deeply moved. He  38  on his knees and put his arms around his precious little girl. He begged her to  39   him .

An accident  40  the life of the child only a short time later and  41  is told that the father kept that little gold box by his bed for all the years of his life. And  42  he was discouraged or faced difficult problems he  43   open the box，take out an imaginary kiss, and  44  the love of this beautiful child who had put it there.

In a very real sense, each of us as human beings have been given an unseen golden box 45   with unconditional 1ove and kisses from our children, family, friends and God.                  

36. A. doing      B. cutting          C. tearing             D. using

37. A. worried          B. shocked      C. bored         D. terrified

38. A. paint       B. tie         C. decorate        D. hang

39. A. bothered      B. moved          C. embarrassed       D. annoyed

40. A. empty      B. ugly       C. overfilled      D. expensive

41. A. politely    B. angrily          C. thoughtfully      D. eagerly

42. A. in         B. down     C. with           D. for

43. A. 1ay         B. fell        C. rose           D. went

44. A. punish     B. blame     C. forgive          D. beat

45. A. took        B. risked     C. cost           D. destroyed

46. A. this         B. it         C. she            D. he

47. A. whichever    B. whatever    C. wherever       D. whenever

48. A. could       B. should     C. would         D. might

49. A. imagine          B. remember   C. miss           D. find

50. A. put       B. carried          C. covered         D. filled