内容正文:
2021英语二考冲刺—完型填空专题名校汇编
学习目标:专题训练各名校完形填空,掌握完形填空常考点和难点以及解题技巧。
课堂测试:
1. 【2020-2021学年七宝中学高三上学期9月第一次月考卷】 难度值:(★★★★)
I recently met a Texan couple whose son was still in diapers. They were seeking to get him into a preschool that (41)______ a private preparatory school with a great record for college admissions.
The couple were ambivalent (uncertain) about doing this. They were from immigrant and working-class backgrounds, and had thrived in public schools. In theory, they believed that all children should have an equal chance to succeed. But I (42)______ that if they got their son a spot in the preschool, they’d take it.
It’s a familiar story. Psychologists, sociologists and journalists have spent over a decade critiquing (评论;评判)the habits of “helicopter parents” and their school (43)_______. They insist that hyper-parenting backfires — creating a generation of stressed-out kids who can’t (44)______ alone. Parents themselves alternate between feeling guilty, panicked and ridiculous.
But a new research shows that in our unequal era, this kind of parenting brings life-changing benefits. According to the research, when inequality hit a low in the 1970s, there wasn’t that much of a gap between what someone earned with or without a college degree. Strict parenting (45)______ an era of “permissive parenting” — giving children lots of freedom with little oversight.
In the 1980s, however, inequality increased sharply in Western countries, especially the United States, and the gap between white- and blue-collar pay widened. Permissive parenting was replaced by helicopter parenting. Middle- and upper-class parents who’d gone to public schools and spent evenings playing kickball in the neighborhood began elbowing their toddlers into fast-track preschools and spending evenings monitoring their homework and driving them to activities.
American parents eventually increased their (46)_______ care-giving by about 12 hours a week, compared with the 1970s.
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