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Parents are often upset when their children praise the homes of their friends and regard it as a slur on their own cooking, or cleaning, or furniture, and often are foolish enough to let the teenagers see that they are annoyed. They may even accuse them of disloyalty, or make some unpleasant remark about the friends’ parents. Such a loss of dignity and descent into childish behavior on the part of the adults deeply shocks the teenagers, and makes them decide that in future they will not talk to their parents about the places or people they visit. Before very long the parents will be complaining that the child is so secretive and never tells them anything, but they seldom realize that they have brought this on themselves.
Disillusionment with the parents, however good and adequate they may be both as parents and as individuals, is to some degree inevitable. Most children have such a high ideal of their parents, unless the parents themselves have been unsatisfactory, that it can hardly hope to stand up to a realistic evaluation. Parents would be greatly surprised and deeply touched if they realized how much belief their children usually have in their character and infallibility（一贯正确）, and how much this faith means to a child. If parents were prepared for this teen-aged reaction, and realized that it was a sign that the child was growing up and developing valuable powers of observation and independent judgment, they would not be so hurt, and therefore would not drive the child into opposition by resenting and resisting it.
The teenager, with his passion for sincerity, always respects a parent who admits that he is wrong, or ignorant, or even that he has been unfair or unjust. What the child can’t forgive is the parents’ refusal to admit these charges if the child knows them to be true.
Victorian parents believed that they kept their dignity by retreating behind an unreasoning authoritarian attitude; in fact they did nothing of the kind, but children were then too frightened to let them know how they really felt. Today we tend to go to the other extreme, but on the whole this is a healthier attitude both for the child and the parent. It is always wiser and safer to face up to reality, however painful it may be at the moment.
According to the passage, when the children praise the homes of their friends, their parents tend not to ________.
本题是一道细节题。文章第一段开头提到：家长面对孩子夸奖别人家而表现出来的态度有以下几 种：“Parents are often upset”（很沮丧），或者是“regard it as a slur on their own cooking...”（认为是对家长本 身劳动的一种诋毁），再或者是“make some unpleasant remark about the friends’ parents”（在背后说孩子朋友 的父母的不是）。这些都是家长们通常的反应，故A、B、D三项都与题意不符。而选项C“经常与孩子一起 赞扬别人的家庭”是家长不愿做的事，故C项为正确答案。
In paragraph 2, by “high ideal”, the author means ________.
本题是一道推断题。第二段一开始就讲到大多数孩子对父母都抱着幻想，作者在第二句中虽然提到 了“high ideal”，但是却没有直接解释这个词具体的含义，因此我们可以根据上下文语境推断。接下去的第 三句中提到的孩子对父母人格的信任以及认为他们是绝对正确“belief in their character and infallibility”这两 点便是对“high ideal”的解释。其他选项都不是孩子对父母的看法，因此不符合题意。故B项为正确答案。
According to the passage, what can’t be accepted by the teenager?
根据文章倒数第二段最后一句“What the child can’t forgive is the parents’ refusal to admit these charges if the child knows them to be true.”可知孩子无法接受的是父母拒绝承认他们的错误。故C项为正确答案。
In the first sentence of paragraph 4, “retreating behind an unreasoning authoritarian attitude” may mean ________.
细节判断题。根据题干中的Victorian times定位到末段。文中明确指出，维多利亚时代的父母之所以可 以镇住孩子，倒不是因为孩子崇尚无理的权威，而是他们被这样的气势吓得不敢说实话。据此，D的表述与原文相符，为正确答案。
According to the passage, which statement is true?
本题是一道细节题。选项A当中提到的孩子在任何时候都会原谅父母是与原文不符的。第三段最后一 句“What the child can’t forgive is the parents’ refusal to admit these charges if the child knows them to be true.”说 明孩子不能原谅父母的是因为他们拒绝承认自己所犯的错误。下面提及的“always respects a parent who admits that he is wrong, or ignorant...”他们尊敬的是勇于承认过失或是无知等错误的长辈，因此可以排除A。 而D项是符合原文意思的。B项中提到的家长意识到应该对孩子不愿向他们透露心声这一问题负责也是与原 文有出入的，第一段最后一句指出家长的态度是抱怨，并没有意识到要负责。C项的错误更是显而易见 的。故D项为正确答案。