首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
The nation already has its soccer moms, hockey moms. But a new brand of pushy parent is suddenly the talk of Middle America: the
The nation already has its soccer moms, hockey moms. But a new brand of pushy parent is suddenly the talk of Middle America: the
admin
2016-11-09
33
问题
The nation already has its soccer moms, hockey moms. But a new brand of pushy parent is suddenly the talk of Middle America: the no-nonsense "Tiger Mother."
Amy Chua, a daughter of Chinese immigrants, coined the phrase in a newspaper article outlining her extraordinarily robust attempts to raise high-achieving kids. Within hours, she had become a media sensation.
Her new book Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother shot to number six in the Amazon sales charts. Her article headlined "Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior" is the week’s most read article in The Wall Street Journal. It has generated a quarter of a million "likes" and six thousand reader comments, most of them hostile. Her wide publicity in other media has sparked a furious debate over the rights and wrongs of Western parenting.
Chua’s book outlines the hard-line philosophy towards child rearing. It lists "watching TV playing computer games, playing any instrument other than the piano or violin, and "getting any grade less than an A," among the many things children should never be allowed to get away with. If they failed to complete 90 minutes of music practice each night, Chua would set fire to their teddy bears and threaten to donate their dolls houses to a charity store.
In a society which has slipped consistently down the world rankings for academic achievement in recent decades, and as parenting standards have become ever more permissive, Chua’s book
has struck a raw nerve
, setting parents pondering how to discipline a child.
Some call her a borderline child abuser; others say that her "tough love" approach gets results and should be widely copied. Plenty of others say that it advances a dangerous stereotype when America is increasingly suspicious about the rise of China.
Invited onto NBC’s Today program this week, she said that her methods worked: Both girls are "straight A students." In a small concession, she has allowed them to learn tennis.
High suicide rates among Indian and Chinese immigrant children have been blamed on pressure to succeed, and there has been discontent about "Tiger Parenting" from within the Chinese community.
"My first reaction was, ’Is this a joke?’ I kept waiting for the punch line," Frances Kai-Hwa Wang, 44, said. "Her methods are so crude. The humiliations and the shaming. The kids will hear that voice in their heads for the rest of their lives."
The underlined expression in Paragraph 5 probably means________.
选项
A、has produced no response
B、has been totally discarded
C、has touched on a sensitive topic
D、has caused serious diseases
答案
C
解析
strike a raw nerve直译是“碰到了裸露的神经”,意译为mention or bring to mind a sensitive issue or subject(提到或使人想到一个敏感的话题)。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/YUHO777K
0
研究生英语学位课统考(GET)
相关试题推荐
Internetisavastnetworkofcomputersthatconnectsmanyoftheworld’sbusinesses,institutions,andindividuals.Theinterne
Thatexperiencesinfluencesubsequentbehaviourisevidenceofanobviousbutneverthelessremarkableactivitycalledrememberin
Foranyonewhohasexperiencedanearthquake,theexperiencecanbefrighteningandtraumatic.Inadditiontothemovementofth
Femaleapplicantstopostdoctoralpositionsingeosciencewerenearlyhalfaslikelytoreceiveexcellentlettersofrecommendat
(清华大学2007年试题)Seariseasaconsequenceofglobalwarmingwouldimmediatelythreatenthatlargefractionoftheglobeliving
EveryoneinAmericanthesedaysseemstobe______withhisorherphysicalfitness,andeveryoneistalkingaboutgettinginshap
InwhatwaydoesTVdiscourageconcentration,accordingtothetext?Bydescribingnewsas"machine-gunningwithscraps",thea
Thetroublewithtelevisionisthatitdiscouragesconcentration.Television’svarietybecomesanarcotic,notastimulus.Itss
随机试题
关于书刊装订质量要求的说法,正确的有()等。
作为系统开发的后期阶段,系统实施的目的是把审核过的_______说明书转换为可以实际运行的系统。
级差地租形成的原因是
资本市场促进国有企业转换机制和国有经济的战略性调整,要做到()。
在波士顿矩阵中,能带来大量的净现金流入的产品是()。
人类进入文明社会的标志是()。
注重以服务对象为中心,创造一种有利于服务对象自我发展的辅导环境的个案工作模式是()。
简论人民代表大会制度是我国的根本政治制度。
Wereitnotforyourhelp,theprofitofthecompanythisyear____________(不会比去年翻一翻).
【B1】【B2】
最新回复
(
0
)