2014年成人学位英语模拟试题及答案（4）
Passage two
Concerning money or anything else, conflicts between husband and wife usually reflect a power struggle. Conflicts between parent and child often center around the same issue. As children enter adolescence, they begin to demand greater freedom to go where they please, do what they please, and make decisions without parental interference. Many American parents do not know how to deal with their teenagers and seek advice from books, lectures, and parent training courses. Parents want to maintain a friendly relationship with their teenagers and also want to guide them so that their behavior will be whatever the parents consider proper and constructive.
But in a society of rapidly changing social and moral values, parents and children often disagree about what is important and what is right.
Arguments may concern such unimportant matters as styles or hairdos. But quarrels may also concern school work, after school jobs, decisions, use of the family car, dating and sex behavior. Some families have serious problems with teenagers who drop out of school, run away from home, or use illegal drugs. Because so much publicity is given to the problem teenager, one gets the impression that all teenagers are troublemaker. Actually, relatively few adolescents do anything wrong, and all grow up into “solid citizen” who fulfill most of their parents’ expectations. In fact, recent studies show that the “generation gap” is narrowing. The vast majority of teenagers share most of their parents’ values and ideas. Many parents feel that they get along with their adolescents quite well.
21. According to the writer, conflicts between husband and wife usually reflect _____.
A. feeling of hatred
B. power struggle
C. that they don’t care for each other
D. that they may appeal to divorce
22. As children enter adolescents, they begin to do the following except _____.
A. demanding greater freedom to go wherever they please
B. making decisions without parental interference
C. getting married whenever they please
D. doing what they please
23. “--- generation gap is narrowing.” Means ______.
A. the adolescents now become timid
B. parents come to get along with their children
C. the vast majority of teenagers share most of their parents’ values and ideas
D. parents and teenager don’t like to quarrel
24. Parents and children often disagree about what is important or right because _____.
A. they have different styles of life
B. they hate each other
C. parents think that their children are troublemakers
D. they are in a society of rapidly changing social and moral values
25. When many American parents don’t know how to deal with their children they seek advice from the following except ______.
A. neighbors B. parent-training course
C. books D. lectures
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