阅读理解 When I ask experienced college teachers and administrators to describe how college students have changed over the years, I often get an answer like this, "Today' s students are more accomplished than past generations, but they are also more emotionally fragile."
That rings true to me. Today's students are amazing, but they bathe one another in oceans of affirmation and praise, as if supporting one another against some insecurity. Whatever one thinks of the campus protests, the desire for trigger warnings and safe spaces does seem to originate from a place of emotional fragility.
And if you hang around the middle aged, you hear a common story line to explain the rise of the orchid generation. Once upon a time, the story line goes, kids were raised in a tough environment. They had to do hard manual chores around the house and they got in fights on the playground. Then they went off to do grueling work in the factory or they learned toughness and grit in the military.
But today, helicopter parents protect their children from setbacks and hardship. They supervise every playground conflict, so kids never learn to handle disputes or deal with pain.
Emotional fragility is not only caused by overprotective parenting. It' s also caused by anything that makes it harder for people to find their goals. We are all fragile when we don't know what our purpose is, when we haven't thrown ourselves with abandon into a social role, when we haven't committed ourselves to certain people, when we feel like a swimmer in an ocean with no edge.
If you really want people to be tough, make them idealistic for some cause, make them tender for some other person, make them committed to some worldview that puts today's temporary pain in the context of a larger hope.
Emotional fragility seems like a psychological problem, but it has only a philosophical answer. People are really tough only after they have taken a leap of faith for some truth or mission or love. Once they've done that they can withstand a lot.
单选题 21.According to the first paragraph, compared with the past generations, today's students are______.
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】细节题。根据题干关键词定位到文章第一段后半部分Today’s students are more accomplished than past generations，but they are also more emotionally fragile，即现在的学生比前几代人有更多的成就，但是情感上也更脆弱。A项“现在的学生没有前几代人聪明”、B项“现在的学生身体虚弱”均不符合文章意思。D项“现在的学生更理想化”在文中找不到相关信息。C项意为“现在的学生比前几代人聪明，但是却没那么坚强”。很明显，more versatile是文中more accomplished的同义替换，less tough是more emotionally fragile的同义替换，故本题选C。
单选题 22.The following aspects are all the symptoms of today' s students on fragility EXCEPT that they______.
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】细节题。根据题干关键词定位到文章第二段。A项意为“他们靠恭维彼此生存”。compliment是对文中第二段第二句they bathe one another in oceans of affirmation and praise的同义转换．故A项正确。B项意为“他们可能在大学发起抵抗以表达自己的不满”，其中launch campaign是对文中protest的同义替换，express their anger同义替换trigger warning，故B项正确。D项意为“在面对抗议时，他们渴望安全”，其中yearn for safety是desire for safe spaces的同义替换，故D项正确。C项“他们支持彼此的信仰”在原文找不到相关信息，故本题选C。
单选题 23.According to Paragraph 3, "orchid generation"______.
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】细节题。根据题干关键词定位到文章第三段。分析第三段可知，“兰花一代”并非像之前孩子那样在严苛的环境里长大，他们不用在家里做繁重的体力劳动，也不用在部队里懂得什么叫强硬，由此可知A、D两项均错误。B项意为“兰花一代喜欢部队生活”，文章虽有提到military一词，但其并未提及“兰花一代”热爱部队生活，属无中生有，故B项错误，故本题选C。
单选题 24.According to the passage, what is NOT the reason why people feel fragile?
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】细节题。根据题干关键词定位到文章第五段。A项是对该段第三句we haven’t thrown ourselves with abandon into a social role的同义替换，其中，thrown…into与get involved into表述含义一致，均意为“卷入；投身于”。B项doubt the meaning of life是对该段第三句when we don’t know what our purpose is的同义替换。D项make no promises to someone是对该段第三句we haven’t committed ourselves to certain people的同义替换。C项可定位到最后一段第一句Emotional fragility seems like a psychological problem(情感脆弱看上去似乎是一道心理题)，C项偷换主语概念，表述错误，故本题选C。
单选题 25.Which of the following would be the most appropriate title for the text?
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】主旨题。文章指出了现在的孩子情感脆弱的表现：父母对他们的过度呵护和其难以找到自己的目标。作者在文章后两段提出了让孩子摆脱情感脆弱的方法，从而变得强硬和坚毅。因此A项“培养现代人的坚毅品性”符合文意。B项“承认情感脆弱”、C项“在生活中树立明确的目标”和D项“避免父母的过度保护”均是对文章内容的部分概括，较为片面，故本题选A。