精品解析：辽宁省沈阳市铁路实验中学2019-2020学年高三上学期第一次月考英语试题

沈阳铁路实验中学2019—2020学年度上学期阶段测试 高三英语 时间：100分钟 分数：120分 第一部分：阅读理解（共两节, 满分40分） 第一节（共15小题；每题2分, 满分30分） 阅读下列短文, 从每题所给的四个选项（A, B, C, D）中, 选出最佳选项。 A For many parents raising a teenager is like fighting a long war, but years go by without any clear winner. Like a border conflict between neighboring countries, the parent-teen war is about boundaries: Where is the line between what I control and what you do? Both sides want peace, but neither feels it has any power to stop the conflict. In part, this is because neither is willing to admit any responsibility for starting it. From the parents’ point of view, the only cause of their fight is their adolescents’ complete unreasonableness. And of course, the teens see it in exactly the same way, except oppositely. Both feel trapped. In this article, I’ll describe three no-win situations that commonly arise between teens and parents and then suggest some ways out of the trap. The first no-win situation is quarrels over unimportant things. Examples include the color of the teen’s hair, the cleanliness of the bedroom, the preferred style of clothing, the child’s failure to eat a good breakfast before school, or his tendency to sleep until noon on the weekends. Second, blaming. The goal of a blaming battle is to make the other admit that his bad attitude is the reason why everything goes wrong. Third, needing to be right. It doesn’t matter what the topic is—politics, the laws of physics, or the proper way to break an egg—the point of these arguments is to prove that you are right and the other person is wrong, for both wish to be considered an authority—someone who actually knows something—and therefore to command respect. Unfortunately, as long as parents and teens continue to assume that they know more than the other, they’ll continue to fight these battles forever and never make any real progress. 1. Why does the author compare the parent-teen war to a border conflict? A. Both are about where to draw the line. B. Both can conti