单选题 It is not unusual today for old people to spoil their grandchildren with toys and sweets and to     29    to their aggressive demands. It is natural that old people adore (爱) their grandchildren, but is not normal that this adoration should go so far as to create little emperors and empresses. Such adoration has a     30    effect on the children's personalities and moral standards. A survey of 152 such families found that 88 percent of grandparents admitted that they tended to yield to their grandchildren's every request, especially if the children had resorted to tears.
    It seems that when children are told off by their parents or teachers, their elder relatives interfere protecting and comforting the children. When the children are     31    to do some family chores (杂务), 59 percent of the old people said they would invariably (总是) do it for them. Some grandparents would even go to     32    to sweep floors and wash windows for their grandchildren.
    It has become usual that when little boys and girls get good     33    in examinations, their grandparents reward them. As a result, the children have come to take these favours for granted (认为……是理所当然) and have become less     34    towards others.
    Parents and teachers have all appealed to old people to be     35    for the sake of future generations.
    The problems of these spoiled children can be     36    . First, parents and grandparents should understand that their     37    is to train the children to become both self-controlled and self-dependent. Second, they should allow the children to be more independent. And third, young parents should     38    with the old instead of leaving the grandparents entirely responsible to raise the children.
    A. beneficial                                I. quarrel
    B. considerate                                J. required
    C. cooperate                                K. school
    D. information                              L. sensible
    E. marks                                    M. solved
    F. negative                                    N. task
    G. participated                            O. yield
    H. precisely
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【正确答案】O
【答案解析】本句中and连接并列成分,因此可知此处应填具有消极意义的动词原形,与spoil相呼应,O构成短语yield to(屈服),指(外)祖父母常对孩子们过分的要求做出让步,这与后面的yield形成原词复现关系,故答案为O yield(屈服)。
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【正确答案】F
【答案解析】上一句提到,对grandchildren的溺爱会产生“小皇帝”“小公主”,那这种溺爱对孩子的性格和道德标准会产生什么样的影响呢?这里需要填表示“消极的,负面的”的形容词,故答案为F negative。
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【正确答案】J
【答案解析】本句后半句提到:老年人总是会帮助孩子做家务,那前半句应该指当孩子被要求做家务的时候,故答案为J required(要求,需要)。
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【正确答案】K
【答案解析】前一句提到了做family chores(家务),这一句说(外)祖父母甚至会去……为孙子(女)拖地板、擦窗子。为了和family相对照,这里需要填表示“学校”的词,反映出(外)祖父母包办了生活上需要动手的所有事情。
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【正确答案】E
【答案解析】这一句说,小孩在考试中得到好的……,(外)祖父母就会奖励他们,这里需要填表示“分数”的词, 因此选E marks。
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【正确答案】B
【答案解析】空前的less提示,本空应填多音节的形容词,构成比较级。这段讲,由于经常得到奖励,孩子就把这种宠爱和关心看作是理所当然的,这样他们就不懂得体谅别人,故答案为B considerate(体贴的,体谅他人的)。
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【正确答案】L
【答案解析】这一句说,为了后代,家长和老师都呼吁老年人应该……,故本空应填表示“明智的”的词,因此选L sensible。
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【正确答案】M
【答案解析】空前的can be提示,本空应填过去分词,构成被动语态。句意为“这些被宠坏了的孩子的问题可以……”,因此选M solved(被解决)。
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【正确答案】N
【答案解析】空前的their提示,本空应填名词,故D information,I quarrel和N task入选。空后的is to train…提示,所填词为带有一定目的性、方向性的名词,故答案为N task(任务)。
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【正确答案】C
【答案解析】空前的should提示,本空应填动词原形,做谓语,故C cooperate和I quarrel入选。由“年轻的父母应该和老年人……而不是只让老年人完全担负抚养孩子的责任”可知,应是两代人一起合作抚养孩子,故答案为C cooperate(合作,配合)。