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 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, runaway 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.

26.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

答案：B

解析：事实细节题。文章开篇句作者便表明了观点：“当涉及金钱或其他任何事情的时候，夫妻之间的冲突通常都反映出一种权力之争。”由此出发，作者又引申出“父母和孩子之间的冲突也都是围绕权力展开的”这一主题。A、C、D选项文章均未提到，所以选B。

27.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

答案：C

解析：事实细节题。文章第三句提到，当孩子进入青年时期，他们就会要求得到更大的自由，去他们喜欢去的地方(即A选项)，做他们愿意做的事情(即D选项)，在没有父母干涉的条件下自己做选择(即B选项)，文章没有提到的只有C。

28."... 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

答案：C

解析：事实细节题。从文章倒数第二句可以得知，“代沟正在减小”的意思就是绝大多数的孩子都与父母的价值观和思想相同。B选项“父母逐渐和孩子相处融洽”是代沟缩小的结果，而不是其含义;A、D与本题无关。

29.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

答案：D

解析：事实细节题。文章的第二段提到，在一个社会和道德观念迅速变化的社会里，什么是重要的、什么是正确的，父母和孩子经常会意见不同。由此可知D是正确的，而A、B、c都与本题无关。

30.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

答案：A

解析：事实细节题。文章第四句提到，很多美国父母不知怎样教育子女，只好从书上、讲座里、家长培训课中寻求建议。文中没提到的只有A。

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