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 hard to _______ this element (元素) in parental love.
My eldest daughter’s _______ the other day brought this up. “Let me ask you something, Dad,” she began in a tone of 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 _______?”
“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 _______ answer a parent can give to this.
All I could mumble (嘟囔) in _______ 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 the ________, a child is a child.
There is something else, too, that children find it hard to ________ . 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 ________ , the old protective urge quickly comes back, 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 ________ stays for a lifetime.
In the parent’s mind, a child ages but does not ________. Rational? No. But if we were rational, would we want children at all?
【小题1】A.anxiety | B.fear | C.love | D.desire |
【小题2】A.accept | B.improve | C.remove | D.dislike |
【小题3】A.problem | B.question | C.warning | D.explanation |
【小题4】A.anger | B.pride | C.worry | D.surprise |
【小题5】【小题6】A.brave | B.careful | C.quick | D.helpful |
【小题7】A.necessary | B.different | C.satisfactory | D.ordinary |
【小题8】A.apology | B.turn | C.regret | D.reply |
【小题9】A.persuade | B.promise | C.remind | D.expect |
【小题10】A.different | B.same | C.extra | D.right |
【小题11】A.age | B.distance | C.gender | D.power |
【小题12】A.decide | B.miss | C.choose | D.understand |
【小题13】A.success | B.happiness | C.luck | D.safety |
【小题14】A.argue | B.think | C.forget | D.complain |
【小题15】A.aware | B.hesitant | C.close | D.frightened |
【小题16】A.prove | B.matter | C.mean | D.mind |
【小题17】A.accidents | B.failures | C.changes | D.mistakes |
【小题18】A.follow | B.protect | C.spoil | D.treat |
【小题19】A.impression | B.effect | C.opportunity | D.response |
【小题20】A.stop | B.compete | C.leave | D.grow |