Question

【题目】根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。

Parents feel that it is difficult to live with teenagers.【1】According to a recent research, the most common argument between parents and teenagers is that regarding untidiness and daily routine tasks.【2】On the other hand, teenagers lose their patience continually when parents blame them for dropping the towel in the bathroom, not cleaning up their room.

The research, conducted by St. George University, shows that different parents have different approaches to these problems.【3】For example, those parents who yell at their children for their untidiness, but later clean the room for them, have fewer chances of changing their children’s behavior. On the contrary, those who let teenagers experience the thrills of their actions can do better.【4】 Parents should talk to their children but at the same time they should lend an ear to what they have to say.【5】It is only by listening to and understanding each other that problems between parents and children can be settled.

A. On the one hand, parents go mad over messy rooms.

B. There are many reasons for this.

C. Then again, teenagers have similar feelings about their parents.

D. Communication is a two-way process.

E. However, some approaches are more successful than others.

F. Psychologists say that communication is the most important thing in parent-child relationships.

G. It is better for children and parents to understand each other.

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】C

【2】A

【3】E

【4】F

【5】D

【解析】

【1】考查上下文逻辑关系，根据关键词similar feelings，再者，下文意思是表示家长和孩子都表示和对方不好相处。故答案选C。

【2】考查上下文逻辑关系，根据关键词：on one hand，… On the other hand …。

【3】考查上下文逻辑关系，根据关键词approach，下文是讲的一些家长的做法，故E项正确。

【4】考查上下文逻辑关系，根据关键词communication，下文主要讲的家长和孩子之间的交流，故答案F正确。

【5】考查上下文逻辑关系，根据关键词two-way process, 双向过程，即下文所说的“听和说的过程”，故答案选D。