Your daughter has finally reached the age of 18, and you think perhaps your job will finally get a little easier. That could be wrong thinking - as the parent of any 18-year-old will tell you.  Learning to cope with an ungrateful 18-year-old daughter takes patience, understanding and time.

_______ When she was a little girl, she wanted you to be involved（参和） in everything of her life from her daily activities to her friends. This is' no longer the case. She's a grown woman who needs her own personal life. Comment（评论） on her choices only when asked to do so - especially if you want to say no to her.

    Allow her to make mistakes. No parent wants to see his or her child fall, but the days of protecting her all the time are at an end. Unless（除非） you see a train coming, let her fall when she makes poor choices. It will enable her to grow past the ungrateful "know it all" stage.

    Encourage dialogue whenever you can, rather than planning talks. She's more likely to open up to you when talking over something trivial (琐碎的). Anytime she wants to talk, become a willing listener in the conversation. You never know when a deeper, more important conversation will develop.

1.What does the underlined phrase "cope with" mean?

A. walk with                     B. go with       C. talk with    D. deal with

2.Which sentence is best to put into the blank in the second paragraph?

A. Never give your opinions to her.

B. Give her the space she asks for.

C. Never take part in her activities.

D. Always say yes to her.

3.We can learn that parents_______ from the third paragraph.

A. can't protect their children every minute

B. sometimes make mistakes

C. should let their children fall as often as possible

D. shouldn't allow their children to take the train alone

4.The passage is written for_______.

A. daughters                    B. students              C. parents      D. females

Your daughter has finally reached the age of 18, and you think perhaps your job will finally get a little easier. That could be wrong thinking - as the parent of any 18-year-old will tell you.  Learning to cope with an ungrateful 18-year-old daughter takes patience, understanding and time.
_______ When she was a little girl, she wanted you to be involved（参和） in everything of her life from her daily activities to her friends. This is' no longer the case. She's a grown woman who needs her own personal life. Comment（评论） on her choices only when asked to do so - especially if you want to say no to her.
Allow her to make mistakes. No parent wants to see his or her child fall, but the days of protecting her all the time are at an end. Unless（除非） you see a train coming, let her fall when she makes poor choices. It will enable her to grow past the ungrateful "know it all" stage.
Encourage dialogue whenever you can, rather than planning talks. She's more likely to open up to you when talking over something trivial (琐碎的). Anytime she wants to talk, become a willing listener in the conversation. You never know when a deeper, more important conversation will develop.
【小题1】What does the underlined phrase "cope with" mean?

    According to the US’ Office for National Statistic(统计), women reaching the end of their childbearing years had about 1.9 children each in 2004, compared with 3.1 for those women in 1976. Numbers from the UK’s Office for National Statistics show a similar matter across the Atlantic: the percentage of one-child families in Britain had risen from 18 percent in 1972 to 26 percent in 2007.

But even though only children are becoming increasingly common, the stereotype(偏见) that they’re selfish, spoilt(宠坏的) and short of social skills holds strong. Even parents of only children are made to feel guilty about having only one child. Worried that they’re being selfish and endangering their child’s future, they rush to online trying to get advice. Soon, however, they ask themselves: is this social stereotype really reasonable?

“There have been hundreds and hundreds of research studies that show that only children are no different from their mates,” Susan Newman, a social psychologist(心理学家) at Rutgers University in the US, told ABC News.

A perfect example is Natalie Portman. “I had the only attention of my parents. And you know what? If I had had brothers or sisters I would have never become an actress,” she told Naanoo, an online magazine. “My mother has been with me to every audition(试听) and every acting class. With more children that would have never been possible. They would have been jealous(妒嫉) of me.”

This raises another question: why are only children still get such suspicion(质疑)?

“There is a long-lasting belief that’s been around probably since humans first existed that to have just one child is somehow dangerous, both for you and for the continuation of your race,” Toni Falbo, a professor of educational psychology at Texas University’s Population Research Center, told The Guardian. “In the past a lot of children died. You’d have had to be crazy to only have one.”

 Times, of course, have changed and baby’s death has largely disappeared. So what do only children themselves say? Kayley Kravitz, a blogger for The Huffington Post, grew up as an only child and highly praises the experience. “Being an only child taught me the most valuable skill of all: the ability to be alone,” she said.
1  What does the writer probably think of only children?

A. They are big problems.

B. They usually have more free time.

C. They are almost the same as others.

D. They can learn more social skills from their parents.

2  What does the word " guilty " in paragraph 2 mean probably?

A. Sorry.                 B. Happy.                    C. Disappointed.                   D. Proud.

3  What can we infer from the passage?

A. There were more only children in 2007.

B. Only children have more ability to be alone.

C. People usually have stereotypes on only children.

D. Modern medical technology makes only children more acceptable.

4  The writer mainly wants to tell us that________.

A. only children are social problems we should face directly

B. the parents were worried because of the stereotype

C. only children have more problems than others

D. there are more and more only children