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Concerning money or anything else, conflicts between husband and wife usually reflect a power struggle. Conflicts between parent and child often centre 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 fight.

Arguments may concern such unimportant matters as styles of dress 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 troublemakers. Actually, relatively few adolescents do anything wrong, and nearly all grow up into "solid citizens" 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.

第21题单选 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

参考答案：B

第22题单选 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

参考答案：C

第23题单选 "...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

参考答案：C

第24题单选 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

参考答案：D

第25题单选 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 courses

C.books

D.lectures

参考答案：A

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Not all memories are sweet. Some people spend all their lives trying to forget bad experiences. Violence and traffic accidents can leave people with terrible physical and emotional scars. Often they relive these experiences in nightmares( 噩梦).

Now American researchers think they are close to developing a pill, which will help people forget bad memories. The pill is designed to be taken immediately after a frightening experience. They hope it might reduce, or possibly erase ( 抹去), the effect of painful memories.

In November, experts tested a drug on people in the US and France. The drug stops the body releasing chemicals that fix memories in the brain. So far the research has suggested that only the emotional effects of memories may be reduced, not that the memories are erased.

The research has caused a great deal of argument. Some think it is a bad idea, while others support it.

Supporters say it could lead to pills that prevent or treat soldiers’ troubling memories after war. They say that there are many people who suffer from terrible memories.

"Some memories can ruin people’s lives. They come back to you when you don’t want to have them in a daydream or nightmare. They usually come with very painful emotions. " said Roger Pitman, a professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. "This could relieve a lot of that suffering. "

But those who are against the research say that it is very dangerous to change memories because memories give us our identity(物质) They also help us all avoid the mistakes of the past."All of us can think of bad events in our lives that were horrible at the time but make us who we are. I’m not sure we want to wipe those memories out," said Rebecca Dresser, a medical ethicist.

第26题单选 The passage is mainly about ______

A.a new medical invention

B.a new research on memories

C.a way of erasing painful memories

D.an argument about the research on the pill

参考答案：D

第27题单选 The drug tested on people can ______

A.cause the brain to fix memories

B.stop people remembering their experiences

C.prevent body producing certain chemicals

D.wipe out the emotional effects of memories

参考答案：C

第28题单选 We can infer from the passage that ______

A.people doubt the effects of the pills

B.the pill will stop people’s bad experiences

C.taking the pill will do harm to people’s health

D.the pill has probably been produced in America

参考答案：D

第29题单选 Which of the following does Rebecca Dresser agree with?

A.Some memories can rain people’s lives.

B.People want to get rid of bad memories.

C.Experiencing bad events makes us different from others.

D.The pill will reduce people’s sufferings from bad memories.

参考答案：C

第30题单选 The word "sears" in Paragraph One is close in meaning to ______

A.good stories

B.pains

C.experiences

D.memories

参考答案：B

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