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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.
From the text, we can conclude that overindulging children may
选项 A、lessen parental guilt but cannot make children feel more loved.
B、make children greedy and not crave for parents’ attention and love.
C、let parents feel less regretful for not having been so strict or ungenerous.
D、result in children’s inconsideration for the others, starting from their parents.
答案D
解析 从文中我们可以得出结论：溺爱孩子会[A]减轻父母的内疚感，但无法使孩子们感觉到更多的爱。[B]使孩子们贪婪、不渴望父母的关心和爱。[C]让父母不会因为不够严格或慷慨而懊悔。[D]导致孩子们不考虑他人，首先就是他们的父母。本题考查最后一段娇纵孩子的恶果的诸多细节，考生可采用排除法答题。根据[A]中的关键词lessen parental guilt，可以在第五段第一句话中找到相应信息。does little to lessen parental guilt，little表示否定，也就是不能减轻家长的内疚感，所以[A]与文章内容不符；文章指出：孩子们真正渴望的是父母的时间和关注，而[B]与此论述正好相反；[C]与文章内容不符；[D]符合原文倒数第二句的论述：被娇宠的孩子们对他人，首先是父母的需要和感情毫不在乎，为正确答案。
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