单选题 Parents often faced the ______ between doing what they felt was good for the development of the child and what they could stand by way of undisciplined noise and destructiveness.
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】[解析] 本题考查单词词义。A项意为“接合点，交叉点”；B项意为“矛盾的事”；C项意为“前提”；D项意为“(被迫白不中意的两者中择其一的)左右为难，窘境”。本句意为“父母常常面临这样的困境，一方面想做他们自己觉得对孩子发展有好处的事情，另一方面他们要能忍受孩子们那无教养的吵闹和破坏性行为”。D项符合题意。