【精准解析】高三英语日积月累训练之完形填空(中等难度)189

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【精 准解析】高三英语日积月累训练之完形填空（中等难度）

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【题文】

I

recently

met

a

Texan

couple

whose

son

was

still

in

diapers.

They

were

seeking

to

get

him

into

a

preschool

that

____21____ a private preparatory school with a great record for college admissions.

The couple were ambivalent (uncertain) about doing this. They were from immigrant and working-class backgrounds,

and had thrived in public schools. In theory, they believed that all children should have an equal chance to succeed. But I

____22____ that if they got their son a

spot in the preschool, they’d take it.

It’s a familiar story. Psychologists, sociologists and journalists have spent over a decade critiquing

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the

habits

of

“helicopter

parents”

and

their

school

____23____.

They

insist

that

hyper-parenting

backfires

—

creating

a

generation of stressed-

out kids who can’t

____24____ alone. Parents themselves alternate between feeling guilty, panicked

and ridiculous.

But a new research shows that in our unequal era, this kind of parenting brings life-changing benefits. According to the

research, when inequality hit a low in the 1970s, there wasn’t that much of a gap between what someone earned with or

without a college degree. Strict parenting ____25____

an era of “permissive parenting” —

giving children lots of freedom

with little oversight.

In

the

1980s,

however,

inequality

increased

sharply

in

Western

countries,

especially

the

United

States,

and

the

gap

between

white-

and

blue-collar

pay

widened.

Permissive

parenting

was

replaced

by

helicopter

parenting.

Middle-

and

upper-

class parents who’d gone to public schools and spent evenings playing kickball in the neighborhood began elbowing

their toddlers into fast-track preschools and spending evenings monitoring their homework and driving them to activities.

American

parents

eventually

increased

their

____26____

caregiving

by

about

12

hours

a

week,

compared

with

the

1970s.

Not all the changes were rational. But____27____, the new parenting efforts seemed effective. When the researchers

analyzed the 2012 PISA, an academic test of 15-year-olds around the world, along with reports from the teenagers and their

parents about how they interact, they found that an “intensive parenting style” correlated with higher scores on the test.

It’s not enough just to

____28____ over your kids,

however. If you do it as an “authoritarian” parent —

defined as

someone who ____29____

directives, expects children to obey and sometimes hits those who don’t —

you won’t get the

full benefits.

The most effective parents, according to the authors, are “authoritative.” They use reasoning to persuade kids to do

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things that are good for them. Instead of strict obedience, they emphasize ____30____, problem- solving and independence

—

skills that will help their offspring in future workplaces that we can’t even i

magine yet.

And they seem most successful at helping their kids achieve the holy grails(

圣杯

) of modern parenting: college and

postgraduate degrees, which now have a huge financial payoff.

The benefits aren’t just

____31____. In a British study, kids raised by authoritative parents reported better health and

higher self-esteem. In the American study, they were less likely to use drugs, smoke or ____32____ alcohol.

So

why

wouldn’t

everyone

just

become

a(n)

____33____

parent?

Religious

people,

regardless

of

their

income,

are

more

likely

to

be

authoritarian

parents

who

expect

obedience

and

believe

in

corporal

punishment,

the

authors

found.

Working-class and poor parents might not have the leisure time to hover or the budget to pay for activities and expensive

schools. And they may ___34___ feel that they need to prepare their children for jobs in which rule-following matters more

than

debating

skills.

Those

who

can

afford

to

helicopter

are

probably

making

things

even

more

unequal

for

the

next

generation. Since the

re’s apparently no

____35____ to how much people will do for their kids, the prognosis for parenting

doesn’t look good. Yet another reason to elect people who’ll

make America

more equal: We grown

-ups can finally stop

doing homework.

21. A. changes into

22. A. claimed

23. A. obsessions

24. A. mention

25. A. objected to

26. A. hands-down

27. A. for all the attention

28. A. look

B. feeds into

B. doubted

B. associations

B. action

B. contributed to

B. hands-off

B. for the most part

B. hover

B. figures

B. probability

B. physical

B. refuse

B. authoritative

B. formally

B. proof

C. turns into

C. suspected

C. observations

C. transition

C. gave rise to

C. hands-on

C. within defined areas

C. take

C. employs

C. regularity

C. academic

C. counter

C. authoritarian

C. rightly

C. comparison

D. transforms into

D. questioned

D. investigations

D. function

D. gave way to

D. hands-over

D. under right supervision

D. protect

D. evaluates

D. adaptability

D. mental

D. command

D. helicopter

D. reluctantly

D. limit

29. A. issues

30. A. reliability

31. A. financial

32. A. abuse

33. A. permissive

34

A. neutrally

35. A. link

【答案】

21.

B

22.

C

23.

A

24.

D

25.

D

26.

C

27.

B

28.

B

29.

A

30.

D

31.

C

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