Concerning money or anything else, conflicts between husband and wife usually reflect a power struggle. Conflicts between parent and child often center around the same issue. As children enter adolescence, they begin to demand greater freedom to go where they please, do what they please, and make decisions without parental interference. Many american parents do not know how to deal with their teenagers and seek advice from books, lectures, and parent-training courses. Parents want to maintain a friendly relationship with their teenagers and also want to guide them so that their behavior will be whatever the parents consider proper and constructive. But in a society of rapidly changing social and moral values, parents and children often disagree about what is important and what is right. Arguments may concern such unimportant matters as styles of dress or hairdos. But quarrels may also concern school work, after school jobs, decisions, use of the family car, dating, and sexual behavior. Some families have serious problems with teenagers who drop out of school, run away from home, or use illegal drugs. Be cause so much publicity is given to the problem teenager, one gets the impression that all teenagers are trouble-makers. Actually, relatively few adolescents do anything wrong, and nearly all grow up into "solid citizens" who fulfill most of their parents. expectations. In fact, re cent studies show that the "generation gap" is narrowing. The vast majority of teenagers share most of their parents. values and ideas. Many parents feel that they ~et along with their adolescents quite well.
1. A c cording to the writer, conflicts between husband and wife usually reflect ______.
A. feelings of hatred
B. power struggle
C. that they don.t care for each other
D. that they may appeal to divorce
2. As children enter adolescents, they begin to do the following except ______.
A. demanding greater freedom to go where they please
B. making decisions without parental interference
C. getting married whenever they please
D. doing what they please
3. "... Generation gap is narrowing " means ______.
A. the adolescents now be come timid
B. parents used to get along with their children
C. the vast majority of teenagers share most of their parents. values and ideas
D. parents and teenagers don.t like to quarrel
4. Parents and children often disagree about what is important or right be cause ______.
A. they have different styles of life
B. they hate each other
C. parents think that their children are troublemakers
D. they are in a society of rapidly changing social and moral values
5. When many american parents don.t know how to deal with their children they seek advice from the following except ______.
A. neighbors B. parent-training course
C. books D. lectures
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