Most of us think we know the kind of kid who becomes a killer, and most of the time we’re right. Boys (1)_____ about 85% of all

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问题     Most of us think we know the kind of kid who becomes a killer, and most of the time we’re right. Boys (1)_____ about 85% of all youth homicides, and in those cases about 90% (2)_____ a pattern in which the line from bad parenting and bad (3)_____ to murder is usually clear. Their lives start with abuse, neglect and (4)_____ deprivation at home. Add the effects of racism, poverty, the drug and gang cultures, and it is not (5)_____ that in a violent society like ours, (6)_____ children become deadly teens.
    (7)_____ what about the other 10% of kids who kill: the boys who have (8)_____ parents and are not poor? Are their parents to blame when these kids become (9)_____?
    Most children do fine while young enough to be (10)_____ by loving parents, but change as adolescents subjected to peer competition, bullying and rejection, (11)_____ in big high schools. The "normal" culture of adolescence today contains elements that are so nasty that it becomes hard for parents to (12)_____ between what in a teenager’s talk, dress and taste in music, films and video games indicates (13)_____ trouble and what is simply a (14)_____ of the times. Most kids who have multiple body piercing, or listen to Marilyn Manson, or play the video games are normal kids caught in a toxic (15)_____ Intelligent kids with good social skills can be quite skillful at hiding who they really are from their parents. They may do this to (16)_____ punishment, to escape being identified as "crazy", or to protect the parents they love from being (17)_____ or worried. Anyway, how many parents are (18)_____ of thinking the worst of their son—(19)_____, that he harbors murders fantasies, or that he could (20)_____ so far as acting them out.


选项 A、depressed
B、encouraged
C、disappointed
D、amazed

答案C

解析 词汇辨析题。此处谈到孩子隐藏自己真实行为的目的:躲避惩罚、避免被认为是"疯子"、不愿让他们所爱的父母失望或焦虑。句中出现了选择连词or,可以推出其前后词汇语义场相同。根据常识可知,父母经常对孩子有很多期待,一旦孩子表现不好,父母就会出现失望、焦虑等情绪,既然后面是 worried(焦虑的),前面很可能出现表示"失望的"之意的形容词。depressed意为"沮丧的,情绪低落的",主要强调个人情绪上的表现,而文中的意思是父母因为孩子的不好表现而感到失望、不安,两个词强调不同的方面;encouraged意为"被鼓励的",amazed意为"吃惊的,惊奇的",这两个词都具有积极意义,显然不符合此处的语境。
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