The evidence for harmony may not be obvious in some families. But it seems that four out of five young people now get on with their parents, which is the opposite of the popularly-held image of unhappy teenagers locked in their room after endless family quarrels.
An important new study into teenage attitudes surprisingly shows that their family life is more harmonious than it has ever been in the past. “We were surprised by just how positive today’s young people seem to be about their families,” said one member of the research team. “They’re expected to be rebellious （叛逆的） and selfish but actually they have other things on their minds; they want a car and material goods, and they worry about whether school is serving them well. There’s more negotiation and discussion between parents and children, and children expect to take part in the family decision-making process. They don’t want to rock the boat.”
So it seems that this generation of parents is much more likely than parents of 30 years ago to treat their children as friends. “My parents are happy to discuss things with me and willing to listen to me,” says 17-year-old Daniel Lazall, “I always tell them when I’m going out clubbing. As long as they know what I’m doing, they’re fine with it.” Susan Crome, who is now 21, agrees. “Looking back on the last 10 years, there was a lot of what you could call negotiation. For example, as long as I’d done all my homework, I could go out on a Saturday night. But I think my grandparents were a lot stricter with my parents than that.”
Maybe this positive view of family life should not be unexpected. It is possible that the idea of teenage rebellion is not rooted in real facts. A researcher comments, “Our surprise that teenagers say they get along well with their parents comes because of a brief period in our social history when teenagers were regarded as different beings. But that idea of rebelling and breaking away from their parents really only happened during that one time in the 1960s when everyone rebelled. The normal situation throughout history has been a smooth change from helping out with the family business to taking it over.”
小題1:What is the popularly- held image of teenagers?
A．They worry about their school life.
B．They live in harmony with their parents.
C．They have to be locked in to avoid making troubles.
D．They quarrel a lot with their parents.
小題2:The study shows that teenagers don’t want to ______.
A．share family responsibilityB．cause trouble in their families
C．go boating with their familyD．make family decisions
小題3:Compared with parents of 30 years ago, today’s parents______．
A．go to clubs more often with their children
B．a(chǎn)re much stricter with their children
C．care less about their children’s life
D．give their children more freedom
小題4:According to the author, teenage rebellion _______．
A．may be a false beliefB．is common nowadays
C．is based on real factsD．resulted from changes in families
小題5:What is the passage mainly about?
A．Negotiation in family.B．Education in family.
C．Harmony in family.D．Teenage trouble in family.

小題1:D
小題2:B
小題3:D
小題4:A
小題5:C

試題分析：本文講述了現(xiàn)代家庭中的和諧問(wèn)題。現(xiàn)在的父母?jìng)儽绕?0年前給孩子們更多的自由。孩子們不想想象中的那么反叛了，家庭關(guān)系更加融洽了。
小題1:細(xì)節(jié)題：由第一段第二句話“…locked in their room after endless family quarrels”可知年輕人的給人的形象是和父母吵過(guò)架后。選D
小題2:推理題：從第二段最后一句話可知孩子們喜歡參與對(duì)事情的決定，喜歡和父母討論事情，他們并 不想“rock the boat”即“破壞良好（舒適）的現(xiàn)狀”。選B
小題3:細(xì)節(jié)題：由第三段內(nèi)容So it seems that this generation of parents is much more likely than parents of 30 years ago to treat their children as friends.可知現(xiàn)在的父母?jìng)兘o孩子們更多的自由。選D
小題4:推理題：由最后一段內(nèi)容It is possible that the idea of teenage rebellion is not rooted in real facts.可知青少年的反叛或許是一種錯(cuò)誤的信仰。選A
小題5:主旨題：通讀全文可知本文講述了現(xiàn)代家庭中的和諧問(wèn)題。選C
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Digital property may include software, websites, downloaded content, online gaming identities, social-media accounts and even e-mails. In Britain alone holdings of digital music may be worth over ￡9 billion ($14 billion). A fifth of respondents to a Chinese local-newspaper survey said they had over 5，000 yuan($790) of digital property. And value does not lie only in money.“Anyone with kids under 14 years old probably has two prints of them and the rest are in online galleries，”says Nathan Lustig of Entrustet, a company that helps people manage digital property.
Service providers have different rules—and few state them clearly in their terms and conditions. Many give users a personal right to use an account, but nobody else, even after death. Facebook allows relatives to close an account or turn it into a memorial page. Gmail (run by Google) will provide copies of e-mails to an executor (遺囑執(zhí)行人). Music downloaded via iTunes is held under a license which can be abolished on death. Apple declined to comment on the record on this or other policies. All e-mail and data on its iCloud service are deleted on the death of the owner.
This has led to cases to court in America. In 2004 the family of Justin Ellsworth, an army man killed in Iraq, took Yahoo! to court in Michigan to get copies of his e-mails. This year, a court in Oregon ruled that another American mother whose son had died could use her dead son's password to enter his Facebook account for a short period. Now five American states have made laws giving executors control over the social-networking accounts of dead users.
But this raises the subject of privacy. Passing music on is one thing; not everyone may want their relatives to read their e-mails. Colin Pearson, a London-based lawyer, says access should come only with a clear provision in a will.
But laws, wills and password safes may be contrary to the providers' terms of service, especially when the executor is in one country and the data in another. Headaches for the living and lots of lovely work for lawyers.
小題1:Why does Loren begin to think over how to bequeath his digital property at the age of 58?
A．Because he is afraid his children don't know what paper is.
B．Because there's no complete law dealing with digital property.
C．Because his digital property is of great value and importance.
D．Because he is worried his children will be taken to court.
小題2:Which of the following can be inferred from the passage?
A．Digital property is assessed in terms of nothing except money.
B．No laws in America have been made to deal with digital property.
C．The relatives may read the e－mail of the dead without permission.
D．Lawyers can make money through cases about digital property.
小題3:Facebook, Google and Apple have a similar rule that ________．
A．users are offered accounts used by nobody else except users themselves
B．relatives of the dead may close an account or use it at their own will
C．the executor may enter the e－mail and read it by themselves at any time
D．the data downloaded by the dead will be copied and then deleted from net
小題4:Which of the following can best serve as the title of the passage?
A．Digital InformationB．Testamentary Laws
C．Deathless DataD．Vital Property

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