For many parents, raising a teenager is like fighting a long war, but years go by without any clear winner. Like a border conflict（沖突）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.
【小題1】Why does the author compare the parent—teen war to a border conflict?

A．Both can continue for generations.
B．Both are about where to draw the line.
C．Neither has any clear winner.
D．Neither can be put to an end.
【小題2】What does the underlined part in Paragraph 2 mean?
A．The teens blame their parents for starting the conflict.
B．The teens agree with their parents on the cause of the conflict.
C．The teens accuse their parents of misleading them.
D．The teens tend to have a full understanding of their parents.
【小題3】Parents and teens want to be right because they want to ________.
A．give orders to the other
B．know more than the other
C．gain respect from the other
D．get the other to behave properly


【小題1】B
【小題2】A
【小題3】C

解析試題分析：對于許多父母來說，撫養(yǎng)孩子就像打一場持久戰(zhàn)，但經(jīng)過長年累月的戰(zhàn)斗，依然分不出勝負(fù)。家長--孩子間的戰(zhàn)爭，就像邊界之爭一樣，都是要確定自己的活動范圍。
【小題1】根據(jù)第一段“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?”可知，父母和孩子之間的戰(zhàn)爭就像邊界之爭，故選B。
【小題2】“... the teens see it in exactly the same way, except oppositely.”要解釋句子的意思，需要參照前后句，根據(jù)the same way，說明前文已有提示，進(jìn)一步找到關(guān)鍵信息：
“... 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. (雙方都不愿承認(rèn)應(yīng)對沖突的起因負(fù)責(zé)。父母認(rèn)為他們和子女間的沖突的唯一起因是子女的不可理喻。)”由此可知，
“... the teens see it in exactly the same way, except oppositely.”的意思是：子女對此事的看法也是如此，只是恰恰相反，他們認(rèn)為父母的不可理喻才是沖突的起因。故選A。
【小題3】根據(jù)題干劃定原文的相關(guān)信息范圍為：
“... 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.”該句中的for作為因果連詞，與題干中的because是對應(yīng)的，正確選項(xiàng)應(yīng)該是對
both wish to be considered an authority ... respect的同義解釋，與選項(xiàng)C (gain respect from the other)正好匹配。故選C。
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