The Best of Friends
The evidence for harmony 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(印象)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 seen 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 teenagers’ 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 out 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:What is the popular images of teenagers today?
A．They worry about schoolB．They dislike living with their parents
C．They have to be locked in to avoid troublesD．They quarrel a lot with other family members
小題2:  The study shows that teenagers don’t want to ___
A．share family responsibilityB．cause trouble in their families
C．go boating with their familyD．make family decisions
小題3: Compared with parents of 30 years age, today’s parents___.
A．go to clubs more often with their childrenB．a(chǎn)re much stricter with their children
C．care less about their children’s lifeD．give their children more freedom
小題4: According to the author, teenage rebellion____.
A．may be a false beliefB．is common nowadays
C．existed only in the 1960sD．resulted from changes in families
小題5:What is the passage mainly about?
A．Negotiation in familyB．Education in family
C．Harmony in familyD．Teenage trouble in family

小題1:D
小題2:B
小題3:D
小題4:A
小題5:C

小題1:由第一段第二句話“…locked in their room after endless family quarrels”可知。
小題2:從第二段最后一句話可知孩子們喜歡參與對事情的決定，喜歡和父母討論事情，他們并不想“rock the boat”即“破壞良好（舒適）的現(xiàn)狀”。
小題3:由第三段內(nèi)容可知現(xiàn)在的父母們給孩子們更多的自由。
小題4:由最后一段內(nèi)容可知青少年的反叛或許是一種錯誤的信仰。
小題5:通讀全文可知本文講述了現(xiàn)代家庭中的和諧問題。
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