单选题
As I type these lines, my daughter, Harriet, who is 14, is on her iPhone skipping among no fewer than eight social media sites. My son, Penn, who is 15, will be asleep for hours yet. He was
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all night with a friend playing two video games, in a jag fueled by his favorite foodlike
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.
I like that my kids are comfortable and alert in the wired world. But increasingly I am
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for them. It"s more
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every day that screens have gradually stolen them from themselves. My wife, Cree, and I have
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them to drift quite distantly into the online world, and we fear our casualness has been a
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.
Each summer Cree and I resolve to
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things back. This is
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we draft rules for a new school year, strictures like: no laptops in bedrooms during the week; homework before screen time; no electronics after 10 p.m.. These rules invariably begin to
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by Day 3. By Day 4, there is pleading, and the discreet slamming of doors. By Day 8, no one is sure what the
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are anymore. We"re back where we started, and plump with fear.
This year it
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to me we needed help. So I sat down with a new book that
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assistance, and understanding. It is
The Big Disconnect: Protecting Childhood and Family Relationships in the Digital Age,
whose primary
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, Catherine Steiner-Adair, is a clinical psychologist who teaches at Harvard Medical School. Her book is
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on thousands of interviews, and it can be eloquent about the need to ration our children"s computer time. Here the author has pinned me. I like to think I"m a good father, perhaps even casually
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in my better moments,
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there is zero doubt that, without my iPhone in my palm, I feel I lose something since I"m fairly
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. I must change my life a bit.
Cree and I are still hammering out our kids" computer rules. We are trying to
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in mind that we"re not our kids" best friends; we"re their
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. And we are
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if there"s an app for fortitude.
【答案解析】[解析] 作答此题的关键是第二个分句中的提示词casualness“漫不经心;随便”,在句中表示“没有管他们在网络世界中漂流到多远”,所以根据句意,B.allowed“允许”为正确答案。stopped“停止”表意相反。没有suggest sb. to do sth. 的搭配,故排除suggested“建议”。admitted“承认,准许……加入”的干扰性较强,但是admit表“允许”时,一般用被动语态,故排除。
【答案解析】[解析] 本句句意为“今年我______,我们需要帮助”,it为形式主语,真正的主语为后面的为we needed help,将occurred代入句中,构成it occurred to me(that)句型,表示“突然想起:开始意识到”,符合文意,故A.occurred“发生”为正确答案。took通常构成it took sb. some time to do sth., it left to sb. 表示“留给某人”,it seemed to sb. that表示“在某人看来”,故三项均排除。
【答案解析】[解析] 根据本句句意“她的书的素材______数千次的面谈,其中有关限制我家孩子玩电脑时间的必要性的解释可谓动人”以及空格前后的is和on可知,is based on“基于,根据,以……为基础;建立在……基础上”符合文意,故C.based“基于”为正确答案。written“书写”,identified“被识别的”通常与by搭配,put“放置”,三项均排除。
【答案解析】[解析] 根据本句句意“克里和我依然在推敲我家孩子使用电脑的规定。我们试图______,我们不是孩子最好的朋友……”以及空格后的in mind可知,keep in mind“记住”为固定短语,代入句中符合文意,故D.keep为正确答案。A项通常构成put sb. in mind of sth. 意为“使某人想起”。remember“记得”和stay“停留”均不符合搭配,故排除。