The evidence for harmony （ 和諧）may not be obvious in some families. But it seems that four out of five young people now get on with their parents, which is the opposite of the popularly-held image(形象) of unhappy teenagers locked in their room after endless family quarrels.
An important new study into teenage attitudes surprisingly shows that their family life is more harmonious than it has ever been in the past. "We were surprised by just how positive today's young people seem to be about their families," said one member of the research team. "They're expected to be rebellious(叛逆的) and selfish but actually they have other things on their minds; they want a car and material goods, and they worry about whether school is serving them well. There's more negotiation(商議) and discussion between parents and children, and children expect to take part in the family decision-making process. They don't want to rock the boat."
So it seems that this generation of parents is much more likely than parents of 30 years ago to treat their children as friends. "My parents are happy to discuss things with me and willing to listen to me," says 17-years-old Daniel Lazall. " I always tell them when I'm going out clubbing. As long as they know what I'm doing, they're fine with it." Susan Crome, who is now 21, agrees. "Looking back on the last 10 years, there was a lot of what you could call negotiation. For example, as long as I'd done all my homework, I could go out on a Saturday night. But I think my grandparents were a lot stricter with my parents than that."
Maybe this positive view of family life should not be unexpected. It is possible that the idea of teenage rebellion is not rooted in real facts. A researcher comments, "Our surprise that teenagers say they get along well with their parents comes because of a brief period in our social history when teenagers were regarded as different beings. But that idea of rebelling and breaking away from their parents really only happened during that one time in the 1960s when everyone rebelled. The normal situation throughout history has been a smooth change from helping out with the family business to taking it over."
小題1:According to the author, teenage rebellion ________.
A．resulted from changes in families
B．is common nowadays
C．may be a false belief
D．existed only in the 1960s
小題2:What is the passage mainly about?
A．Education in family
B．Harmony in family
C．Teenage trouble in family
D．Negotiation in family
小題3:The study shows that teenagers don't want to ________.
A．go boating with their family
B．share family responsibility
C．make family decisions
D．cause trouble in their families
小題4:Compared with parents of 30 years ago, today's parents ________.
A．care less about their children's life
B．go to clubs more often with their children
C．give their children more freedom
D．a(chǎn)re much stricter with their children

小題1:C
小題2:B
小題3:D
小題4:C

試題分析：本文敘述了一個(gè)重要的新的研究表明,青少年的態(tài)度令人驚訝的是他們的家庭生活比以往過去的任何時(shí)候更加和諧。這一代的父母更有可能像朋友一樣對待自己的孩子。
小題1:推理判斷題。根據(jù)根據(jù)第四段第二句“It is possible that the idea of teenage rebellion is not rooted in real facts(青少年叛逆可能不是事實(shí))”推出“may be a false belief”。
故選C。
小題2:主旨大意題。根據(jù)文章第一句是本文的主題句。B
小題3:細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)從文章第二段后面幾句看出“孩子們與父母討論協(xié)商，參與家庭一些決策，但他們不想rock the boat----意思是to do sth that upsets a situation and causes problems(搗亂，惹麻煩）”，推出答案D。
小題4:細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)文章第三段所給的一些事例，可得出答案C
點(diǎn)評：推理判斷題主要考查考生根據(jù)文章的字面意思，通過語篇邏輯關(guān)系，研究細(xì)節(jié)的暗示，推敲作者的態(tài)度，理解文章的寓意等。推理判斷題屬于主觀性較強(qiáng)的高層次閱讀理解題。
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