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阅读理解     Many parents understandably want to ensure that their children will become financially successful. To that end, they push them to earn top grades and high scores so they can get into the best schools.     In addition, the potential rewards of greatness, particularly in sports, have increased dramatically. That encourages some parents to pressure a child to become a professional athlete. As a cautionary(警告的) tale, Taylor, who works with young achievers and their parents, recommends the movie "Searching for Bobby Fischer." It illustrates(说明，阐明), he says, what can happen when parents become overly invested in their child's achievements and activities.     Taylor also laments(为……悲痛) the pervasive(到处存在的) pop-culture messages, that emphasize success and happiness, particularly success. Popular culture, he notes, offers extremely narrow definitions of success: wealth, fame, power, status, and beauty. "Very few people can live up to that."     Taylor uses sports as an example of good parental intentions gone awry(走歪，走错). When he was growing up in the 1950s, it would have been embarrassing for parents to attend sport spractice sessions. "We expected our kid world to be a kid world," he recalls. "We had zero expectations for parents to be observers and cheerleaders. A parent too much in evidence(引人注目) would have been embarrassing, as if we needed monitoring. We felt just as much loved as the current generation."     By the late 1970s, parental attendance at games had become a must. "It's a sign that you're a good parent if you go to all the games," Taylor says. "The really good parents go to all the practices, too. You have to be there for your kid, cheering your kid, protecting your kid."     Today, Taylor says, a good parent is defined as "somebody who is there for the kid's extracurricular(课外的) activities, rather than someone who is home cooking a nice meal." （1） Many parents push their children very hard because they believe that ________. A . a good education means good financial success B . spare the rod(棍,棒), and they'll spoil the child C . high scores will honor the family D . top grades will ensure a job opportunity （2） Some parents want their children to turn professional in sports simply because ________. A . a great athlete can often attract more attention than any other public figure B . sport will arouse their enthusiasm for life as they grow up C . athlete achievements will bring them enormous rewards D . physical exercise does more good than harm （3） Though people, according to Taylor, are under constant influence of pop culture, ________. A . they will not pursue such superficial(表面的) values as wealth and power B . few people have realized the dangers of pressuring their children too much C . parents will not expose their children to too much pressure D . not many people can be expected to come to success and rise to fame （4） We can learn from the passage that Taylor takes a(n) ________ attitude towards pop-culture. A . critical B . approving C . pessimistic D . optimistic （5） The author's purpose in writing this essay is ________. A . to advise readers to invest more in their children B . to warn parents against pushing children too hard C . to tell parents to stay home more often looking after their children D . to remind parents to be present at all the practices of their children 答案： A C D A B

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