单选题Few people would defend the Victorian attitude to children, but if you were a parent in those days, at least you knew where you stood: children were to be seen and not heard. Freud and company did away with all that and parents have been bewildered ever since. The child's happiness is all-important, the psychologists say, but what about the parents' happiness? Parents suffer continually from fear and guilt while their children gaily romp about pulling the place apart. A good "old-fashioned" spanking is out of the question: no modern child-rearing manual would permit such barbarity. The trouble is you are not allowed even to shout. Who knows what deep psychological wounds you might inflict? The poor child may never recover from the dreadful traumatic experience. So it is that parents bend over backwards to avoid giving their children complexes which a hundred years ago hadn't even been heard of. Certainly a child needs love, and a lot of it. But the excessive permissiveness of modern parents is surely doing more harm than good. Psychologists have succeeded in undermining parents' confidence in their own authority. And it hasn't taken children long to get wind of the fact. In addition to the great modern classics on childcare, there are countless articles in magazines and newspapers. With so much unsolicited advice flying about, mum and dad just don't know what to do any more. In the end, they do nothing at all. So, from early childhood, the kids are in charge and parents' lives are regulated according to the needs of heir offspring. When the little dears develop into teenagers, they take complete control. Lax authority over the years makes adolescent rebellion against parents all the more violent. If the young people are going to have a party, for instance, parents are asked to leave the house. Their presence merely spoils the fun. What else can the poor parents do but obey'? Children are hardy creatures (far hardier than the psychologists would have us believe) and most of them survive the harmful influence of extreme permissiveness which is the normal condition in the modern household. But a great many do not. The spread of juvenile delinquency in our own age is largely due to parental laxity. Mother, believing that little Johnny can look after himself, is not at home when he returns from school, so little Johnny roams the streets. The dividing-line between permissiveness and sheer negligence is very fine 'indeed. The psychologists have much to answer for. They should keep their mouths shut and let parents get on with the job. And if children are knocked about a little bit in the process, it may not really matter too much. At least this will help them to develop vigorous views of their own and give them something positive to react against. Perhaps there's some truth in the idea that children who have had a surfeit of happiness in their childhood appear like stodgy puddings and fail to make a success of life.

单选题I hadn't expected James to apologize but I had hoped ______.

单选题When his wife didn"t believe what he had said, he tried to ______ her of his honesty.

单选题On the giant plane there are ______ the jet needs.

单选题I've told you ______ fire. A. don't play B. don't play with C. not to play with

单选题 To be a good friend or partner

单选题While researchers may not ______ the expansive claims of hard-core vitamin enthusiasts, evidence suggests that the nutrients play a much more complex role in assuring vitality and optimal health than was previously thought.

单选题The none of students in the class likes the mistress, who is used to being ______ of everything they do. A. emotional B. optimistic C. interested D. critical

单选题Which of the following statements can be used to summarize the gist from Paragraph 3 to Paragraph 6?

单选题Wang (guest): That was a delicious dinner.Mrs. Willis (hostess) ______. Would you like to go to the living room now? It's more comfortable there.

单选题He didn't know German, ______ made it difficult for him to study at a university in Germany.

单选题To invent the language clock the researchers studied and compared ______.

单选题Two different theoretical explanations seem to be produced by Zimring's analysis. What are they?

单选题 Although most dreams apparently happen ______, dream activity may be provoked by external influences.

单选题Competition, they believe, ______ the national character rather than corrupts it.

单选题Hersenseofinferiority______herunfortunatefamilybackground.

单选题The Canadian flag has a ______ leaf on it.

单选题The prescription privileges of psychologists is probably NOT the cause for ______.

单选题I remember he's written a book ______ I've completely forgotten. A. which name B. the name which C. the name of it D. whose name

单选题The reason _______he explained is not I expected.