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  3. While traveling for various speaking engagements, I frequently stay overnight in the home of a family and am assigned to one of

While traveling for various speaking engagements, I frequently stay overnight in the home of a family and am assigned to one of

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问题     While traveling for various speaking engagements, I frequently stay overnight in the home of a family and am assigned to one of the children’s bedrooms. In it, I often find so many playthings that there’s almost no room—for my small toilet kit. And the closet is usually so tightly packed with clothes that I can barely squeeze in my jacket. I’m not complaining, only making a point. I think that the tendency to give children an overabundance of toys and clothes is quite common in American families, and I think that in far too many families not only do children come to take their parents’ generosity for granted, but also the effects of this can actually be somewhat harmful to children.
    Of course, I’m not only thinking of the material possessions children are given. Children can also be overindulged with too many privileges—for example, when parents send a child to an expensive summer camp that the parents can’t really afford. Why?
    One fairly common reason is that parents overindulge their children out of a sense of guilt. Parents who both hold full-time jobs may feel guilty about the amount of time they spend away from their children and may attempt to compensate by showering them with material possessions.
    Overindulgence of a child also happens when parents are unable to stand up to their children’s unreasonable demands. Such parents vacillate between saying no and giving in— but neither response seems satisfactory to them. If they refuse a request, they immediately feel a wave of remorse for having been so strict or ungenerous. If they give in, they feel regret and resentment over having been a pushover. This kind of vacillation not only impairs the parents’ ability to set limits, it also sours the parent-child relationship to some degree, robbing parents and their children of some of the happiness and mutual respect that should be present in healthy families.
    But overindulging children with material things does little to lessen parental guilt(since parents never feel that they’ve given enough), nor does it make children feel more loved(for what children really crave is parents’ time and attention). Instead, the effects of overindulgence can be harmful. Children may, to some degree, become greedy, self-centered, ungrateful and insensitive to the needs and feelings of others, beginning with their parents. When children are given too much, it undermines their respect for their parents.
The writer uses the example of his staying overnight in a family’s home to
选项 A、argue that American kids have many toys.
B、complain about kids being given too much by their parents.
C、illustrate the fact of overindulgence in America and its bad effects.
D、prove the difficulty of laying out his things due to an overabundance of toys.
答案C
解析 作者举了自己在一个家庭里过夜的例子是为了[A]证明美国孩子有太多玩具。[B]抱怨家长给予孩子太多。[C]说明美国人溺爱孩子的事实及其消极影响。[D]证明由于玩具过多，导致他摆放东西很困难。本文第一段作者先讲述了自己到外地演讲，住在别人家里的情况。孩子的房间和壁橱里装满了玩具和衣服，让作者无从放东西和衣物。然后作者总结这个例子说明的问题，指出：I’m not complaining，only making a point(我没有抱怨，只是表明一个看法)，所以[B]错误。作者接着写道：美国家庭在物质上给予孩子过多的现象很普遍，然后指出这样的恶果是：孩子把父母的慷慨视作理所当然，这样对孩子不好。所以[A]与原文不符；[D]并没有指出作者举例的真正意图；只有[C]符合原文，为正确答案。
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