单选题 .  Questions 16 to 19 are based on the passage you have just heard.
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【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】[听力原文]
   The key question for any only child is this: why were you an only child? It's a key question for at least two reasons. If your parents had wanted several children but could have you only, they are most likely to pour into you all the energy and attention that had been intended for several children. I call this the "special jewel" phenomenon. Only children who are special jewels often arrive when their parents are older—usually in their thirties. These special jewels can become very spoiled and self-centered.
   On the other hand, you may be an only child because your parents planned for only one and stuck to their plan. Your parents may give you a very strict and well-structured education to make you "a little adult." Many only children grow up feeling unhappy because they always had to be such "little adults."

   Who are likely to treat their only children as "special jewels"?
录音中提到想要几个孩子的父母在不得不只要一个孩子的情况下,会把自己唯一的孩子当做special jewels。