The 75­-year­-old Joe lived very happily in a village and had a big warm family. His children 【小题1】 and moved to different cities. Now he has four grandchildren, and they usually visit him during their holidays.

During one 【小题2】 , Joe was preparing his home for the kids: cleaning the house and cooking their favorite foods. After he finished working, he realized his watch was 【小题3】 . The watch was from his 【小题4】 and he treasured it very much, so he was very upset. He looked for it but could not find it anywhere.

When his grandchildren came, they promised him they would find the watch which was given by their grandma.

One granddaughter asked, “Grandpa, do you remember when you saw it the 【小题5】 time?”

“I guess when I was cleaning the 【小题6】 ! ” he replied.

The children looked for more than two hours with Joe, but they couldn’t find it. The kids were now also sad, but they tried to comfort their grandpa.

One grandson went back to the garden to look again. He was there for about 15 minutes and rushed back with a(n) 【小题7】 look on his face.

Then everyone was very surprised to see the watch in his hand. They asked how he was able to find it. The little boy replied, “I sat there without making a noise. After a few minutes, I heard the ‘tick, tick’ sound and found the watch.”

Joe hugged and 【小题8】 the little boy.

This is the power of silence. If we stay calm (冷静), we are more able to find the ways of solving problems.

It was the final part of the 2016 World Triathlon series in Mexico. Jonny was 【小题1】 when he was about to fall onto the track. 【小题2】 his brother’s timely help, he got second place at last. Alistair chose brotherly love rather than the chance to win the race. They were brothers 【小题3】. Throughout their entire life, the brothers always 【小题4】 each other for help when they were in trouble, and their mother 【小题5】 them.

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 【小题1】 of the popularly—held image of unhappy teenagers locked in their room after 【小题2】 family quarrels.

An important new study into teenage attitudes 【小题3】 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 seem to be about their families,” said one member of the research team. “They’re expected to be rebellious and selfish but 【小题4】 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 【小题5】. 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. Maybe this 【小题6】 view of family life should not be unexp-ected. It is possible that the idea of teenage 【小题7】 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 【小题8】 beings. But that idea of rebelling and breaking away from their parents 【小题9】 only happened during that one time in the 1960s when everyone rebelled. The normal situation throughout history has been a smooth 【小题10】 from helping out with the family business to taking it over.”