文章大意:本文是一篇夹叙夹议文。文章中作者通过进行过多次探险,也去过外地旅游的女儿问自己为什么提醒自己过马路的事情,引出家长对孩子的爱并不理性的观点。指出虽然孩子会慢慢长大,但在父母眼中,孩子永远是孩子,父母对孩子的保护持续一生。
6 . Are parents rational (理性的) about their children? No. Parents aren’t rational because ________ isn’t rational. Young people can understand this about romantic love, but they find it ________ to accept this part in parental love.
My eldest daughter’s ________ the other day brought this up. “Let me ask you something, Dad,” she began in patiently controlled ________ that every experienced parent knows.
“I sailed around the Mediterranean in a yacht (游艇) when I was seventeen,” she said. “I hiked through the Pyrenees from Spain to Paris. I’ve done rock climbing and deep-sea diving and slept in rainforests in the jungle of Indonesia. Right?”
“Right,” I said, “So what?”
“So this,” she went on. “When I go to the corner drugstore to pick up some shampoo, why do you always tell me to be ________ when I cross the street?”
There is no satisfactory ________ a parent can give to this.
All I could say in reply was that when I was 50, my mother would ________ me not to drive too fast. If I were 80 and she were still alive, I would be getting the ________ warning. No matter what the age, a child is a child.
There is something else, too, that children find it hard to understand. When they are far away, there is nothing we can do about their ________. They are in the hands of the gods. Parents try not to ________ about it.
But when the children are close, the old protective urge quickly ________, and it doesn’t ________ how far they have been or what experiences they have got through.
Most ________ happen around the corner, not in the rainforest. The most instinctive (本能的) act of almost every creature is to ________ its young, and with humans this reaction stays for a lifetime.
In the parents’ mind, a child ages but does not ________. Rational? No. But if we were rational, would we want children at all?
1. A.worry | B.fear | C.love | D.need |
2. A.easy | B.friendly | C.hard | D.important |
3. A.problem | B.explanation | C.warning | D.question |
4. A.anger | B.pride | C.worry | D.surprise |
5. A.careful | B.brave | C.quick | D.helpful |
6. A.question | B.answer | C.problem | D.present |
7. A.select | B.remind | C.insist | D.expect |
8. A.different | B.extra | C.same | D.right |
9. A.success | B.happiness | C.luck | D.safety |
10. A.argue | B.think | C.forget | D.complain |
11. A.comes back | B.pays back | C.looks back | D.goes back |
12. A.prove | B.mean | C.matter | D.mind |
13. A.accidents | B.failures | C.changes | D.mistakes |
14. A.tolerate | B.protect | C.devote | D.treat |
15. A.stop | B.compete | C.grow | D.leave |