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Parents are often upset when their children praise the homes of their friends and regard it as a slur (诋 毁) on their own cooking

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问题     Parents are often upset when their children praise the homes of their friends and regard it as a slur (诋 毁) on their own cooking, or cleaning, or furniture, and often are foolish enough to let the teenagers see that they are annoyed. They may even accuse them of disloyalty, or make some unpleasant remark about the friends’ parents. Such a loss of dignity and descent into childish behavior on the part of the adults deeply shocks the teenagers, and makes them decide that in future they will not talk to their parents about the places or people they visit. Before very long the parents will be complaining that the child is so secretive and never tells them anything, but they seldom realize that they have brought this on themselves.
    Disillusionment (幻想破灭) with the parents, however good and adequate they may be bom as parents and as individuals, is to some degree inevitable. Most children have such a high ideal of their parents, unless the parents themselves have been unsatisfactory, that it can hardly hope to stand up to a realistic evaluation. Parents would be greatly surprised and deeply touched if they realized how much belief their children usually have in their character and infallibility (一贯正确), and how much this faith means to a child. If parents were prepared for this teen-aged reaction, and realized that it was a sign that the child was growing up and developing valuable powers of observation and independent judgment, they would not be so hurt, and therefore would not drive the child into opposition by resenting and resisting it.
    The teenager, with his passion for sincerity, always respects a parent who admits that he is wrong, or ignorant, or even that he has been unfair or unjust. What the child can’t forgive is the parents’ refusal to admit these charges if the child knows them to be true.
    Victorian (维多利亚时代的) parents believed that they kept their dignity by retreating behind an unreasoning authoritarian attitude; in fact they did nothing of the kind, but children were then too frightened to let them know how they really felt. Today we tend to go to the other extreme, but on the whole this is a healthier attitude both for the child and the parent. It is always wiser and safer to face up to reality, however painful it may be at the moment.
In the first sentence of paragraph 4, "retreating behind an unreasoning authoritarian attitude" may mean
选项 A、not caring what their children’s behavior
B、stating no reason for their attitude
C、drawing back from their unreasonable authoritarian attitude
D、covering themselves with an unreasonable strict attitude
答案D
解析 推断题。文章第四段一开始就提到了维多利亚时代父母对待孩子的态度：“parents believed thatthey kept their dignity by retreating behind an unreasoning authoritarian attitude”。如果我们熟悉英国历史，就能知道维多利亚时代权威主义盛行。在这样的大时代背景的掩饰下，家长以为他们可以靠无理的权威气派来维护自己的尊严，实际上那是根本不行的。因此， “retreating behind an unreasoning authoritarian attitude”并不是指家长不关心孩子们的成长(A)，或者干脆被维多利亚时代的权威主义吓退(C)，也不是对他们的态度不加说明(B)，而是在大背景的掩护下也表现出来不可理喻的严格态度。因此最后选择D。
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