2015年广州市中考英语一模试卷及答案(6)

on the sofa in full length, he made no attempt to turn off the loud TV he was watching as I walked in, and his greeting was no more than a quick glance at me. His mother was ashamed. “I don't know what to do with him these days,” she said. “He s forgotten all the manners we taught him.” He hasn t forgotten them. He s just decided that he s not going to use them. She confessed (坦白) that she would like to come up behind him and throw him down from the sofa onto the floor.

Another good friend of mine let her two daughters climb all over the furniture, reach across the table, stare at me and say, “I don t like your dress; it s ugly.” One of the daughters has recently been driven out of school. The other has left home.

“Where did we go wrong?” her parents are now very sad. Probably nowhere much. At least, no more than the rest of that unfortunate race, parents.

51. This text is most probably written by ______.

A. a specialist in teenager studies B. a headmaster of a middle school

C. a parent with teenage children D. a doctor for mental health problems

52. The underlined word “it” in the second paragraph refers to ______.

A. the change from good to bad that s seen in a child

B. the way that parents often blame themselves

C. the opinion that a child has of his parents

D. the advice that parents want their children to follow

53. The boy on the sofa would most probably be described as ______.

A. lazy B. quiet G. unusual D. rude

54. From the second example we can infer that the parents of the two daughters ______.

A. pay no attention to them B. are too busy to look after them

C. have come to hate them D. feel helpless to do much about them

55. What is the author s opinion about the sudden change in teenage children?

A. Parents have no choice but to try to accept it.

B. Parents should pay still more attention to the change.

C. Parents should work more closely with school teachers.

D. Parents are at fault for the change in their children.

(C)

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