No matter what Gary did, it was never enough to please his father.
This time, to Gary’s surprise, his dad said with tears in his eyes, “All I ever wanted was to make you better and help you to be successful and avoid risks.
“Dad, our relationship isn’t about productivity,” Gary explained. “You’re my dad. Sometimes I need praise more than a push and approval (赞同) more than advice.
That’s an important lesson. In personal relationships, there may be benefits to the endless pursuit (追求) of better, but the cost may be too high.
| A．It’s what I do. |
| B．I can understand you. |
| C．Always trying to make me better just makes me feel worse. |
| D．I promise I’ll stand by your side forever no matter what happens. |
| E．When he got seven A’s and three B’s, his dad asked about the B’s. |
| F．I love you, but I can’t stand the way you tear down everything I do. |
| G．Gary’s dad was surprised and hurt when Gary took a job in another town. |
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【推荐1】The evidence for harmony may not be obvious in some families. But it seems that four out of five young people now get on with their parents, which is the opposite of the popularly held image of unhappy teenagers locked in their room after endless family quarrels.
An important new study into teenage attitudes surprisingly shows that their family life is more harmonious than it has ever been in the past.” We were surprised by just how positive today’s young people seen to be about their families,” said one member of the research team. “They’re expected to be rebellious(叛逆的) and selfish but actually they have other things on their minds; they want a car and material goods, and they worry about whether school is serving them well. There’s more negotiation and discussion between parents and children, and children expect to take part in the family decision-making process. They don’t want to rock the boat.”
So it seems that this generation of parents is much more likely than parents of 30 years ago to treat their children as friends. “My parents are happy to discuss things with me and willing to listen to me,” says 17-years-old Daniel Lazall. “I always tell them when I’m going out clubbing. As long as they know what I’m doing, they’re fine with it.” Susan Crome, who is now 21,agrees.”Looking back on the last 10 years, there was a lot of what you could call negotiation. For example, as long as I’d done all my homework, I could go out on a Saturday night. But I think my grandparents were a lot stricter with my parents than that.”
Maybe this positive view of family life should not be unexpected. It is possible that the idea of teenagers’ rebellion is not rooted in real facts. A researcher comments, “Our surprise that teenagers say they get along well with their parents comes because of a brief period in our social history when teenagers were regarded as different beings. But that idea of rebelling and breaking away from their parents really only happened during that one time in the 1960s when everyone rebelled. The normal situation throughout history has been a smooth change from helping out with the family business to taking it over.”
1. The study shows that teenagers don’t want to ___| A．share family responsibility | B．cause trouble in their families |
| C．go boating with their family | D．make family decisions |
| A．go to clubs more often with their children | B．are much stricter with their children |
| C．care less about their children’s life | D．give their children more freedom |
| A．Discussion in family. | B．Teenage education in family. |
| C．Harmony in family. | D．Teenage trouble in family. |
【推荐2】I have no memory of December 27. 2015; but I can tell you this much ̶̶̶̶̶̶̶̶ ̶ it was the day my five-year-old son, Dane, saved my life. All the practicing Dane and I had done came together that day. Teaching him to learn our home address, how to use the phone, how to dial 911, and how to answer the questions a 911 operator might ask him if he did have to call ̶̶ ̶ paid off.
At about 3:30 that afternoon, I wasn’t feeling well and had been lying on the sofa. At some point, I went to the bathroom and it was there that I fell down and went unconsciousness. When I fell, my face hit the floor, causing two of my teeth to break off. And my body blocked the door.
Dane must have heard me fall, because he came to the bathroom and called out to me. When I did not answer him, he looked in through a gap in the door and saw the blood from my injured mouth. That’s when his “training” kicked in. First, Dane phoned my mother ̶ ̶ his grandma ̶ ̶ and when Grandma didn’t answer the phone, he called 911. Dane remained calm, stayed on the line and told the operator what had happened and where we lived. He turned on the outside light and opened the door for police and paramedics (医务人员), and then led them to me.
Recently, emergency responders in Taber, the town where we live, honored Dane at his school during an assembly (集会) of his kindergarten classmates and other students. The Taber Police Service praised my son and give him a certificate (证书) in recognition of his “knowing exactly what to do in an emergency situation.”
Dane saved my life, and he is my angel! If I had not taught my son how to react if there was ever an emergency in our home, I am quite certain that I would not be alive now. I strongly suggest other parents understand the life-and -death importance of taking the time to teach their kids these skills, too. Children can learn these things at a very young age. I know this first-hand, as Dane was three years old when I started teaching him.
1. According to the text, Dane________.| A．won a certificate for excellent test scores |
| B．taught himself emergency knowledge at 3 |
| C．once saved his father with his mother’s help |
| D．began to learn emergency knowledge in 2013 |
| A．hard-working but proud |
| B．honest and careful |
| C．skilled and calm |
| D．shy and helpful |
| A．Emergency does happen often in our everyday life. |
| B．Parents should teach their young children how to deal with emergency. |
| C．Parents must learn to be paramedics before learning emergency knowledge. |
| D．It doesn’t take much time and patience to teach children emergency knowledge. |
【推荐3】For her 85th birthday, I gave my mother an iPad. She’d never used a computer. She had a trying relationship with her TV remote control and a miserable track record with her cell.
She was keeping on a tablet because she knew people who had them and she believed that if she couldn’t keep up with technology, she’d one day find herself in a computerized kitchen, “unable to open a can of soup”.
Our first task was email. She quickly learned the fundamentals, but couldn’t see the point of emailing when she could phone or visit in person.
Next, we tackled Netflix. Mom was a movie lover with an appetite for murder mysteries. She was astonished by the amount of crime thrillers that Netflix has on offer. One Saturday she called because she was having trouble logging onto Netflix. I suggested it might require an update. “They probably have fewer people working as it’s a long weekend,” she told me.
Mom is a reader, so we downloaded the library app and signed her up for an ecard. Now she regularly downloads e-books herself. When they are not immediately available, she puts them on hold and forgets about them.
She became curious about all the icons, so we set up a weekly tutorial, which takes place over the phone, each of us with our iPads. One day, I struggled for 45 minutes to help her find he search bar. “It looks like a magnifying glass,” I kept saying. Finally, she asked: “You mean the frying pan?”
We speak on the phone every day. Now, we also FaceTime, Zoom and email. She powers through e-books, marveling that she can check them out in the middle of the night. She watches TV series and knows what’s trending. But she has not yet successfully surfed the Net. She would like to read the newspaper, but pop-up ads and sidebars are problematic. She “accidentally” touches them and then ends up on some strange pages.
I can’t wait for the day when we can sit down in person and surf the Net together. Meanwhile, it’s great to see how much her confidence has grown. Yesterday, she FaceTimed me. “I’ve made a resolution,” she announced. “I’m going to learn how to operate every piece of technology in the apartment — including the TV remote.”
1. Why did the author’s mother decide to learn to use the tablet?| A．To keep pace with times. | B．To connect with her family. |
| C．To follow her friends’ advice. | D．To better organize her kitchen. |
| A．She no longer emailed others. | B．She was addicted to e-books. |
| C．She could identify all of the icons. | D．She was troubled by the pop-up ads. |
| A．Fun and creative. | B．Brave and hardworking. |
| C．Patient and honest. | D．Curious and determined. |
| A．It’s never too late to learn. | B．Time and tide wait for no man. |
| C．Actions speak louder than words. | D．Technology is a double edged sword. |
