广东省东莞中学等六校2015届高三4月模拟 英语试题（Word版）
I 语言知识及应用（共两节，满分45分）
第一节 完形填空（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从1～15各题所给的A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
“It hurts me more than you”, and “This is for your own good” – these are the 1.______ my mother used to make years ago when I had to learn Latin, clean my room, stay home and do homework.
That was before we entered the permissive (宽容的) period in 2. ______ in which we decided it was all right not to 3. ______ our children to achieve their best in school. The schools and the educators made it 4. ______ for us. They taught that it was all right to be 5. ______ who take a let-alone policy. We stopped making our children do homework. We gave them calculators, turned on the television, 6. ______ the teaching to the teachers and went on vacation.
Now teachers, faced with children who have been developing at their own pace for the past 15 years, are 7. ______ we’ve made a terrible mistake. One such teacher is Sharon Klompus who says her students are “so 8_______” and wonders what has happened. Nothing is 9. ______ of them, she believes. Television, Klompus believes, 10. ______ to children’s passivity. “We’re talking about a generation of kids who’ve 11. ______ been hurt or hungry. They have learned somebody will always do it for them, instead of saying ‘go and look it up’, you tell them the 12. ______. It takes greater energy to say 13 ______ to a kid.”
Yes, it does. It takes energy and it takes work. It’s time for parents to end their 14. ______ and come back to work. It’s time to take the car away, to turn the TV off, to tell them it 15. ______ you more than them but it’s for their own good. It’s time to start telling them no again.
1. A. habits B. principals C. statements D. tasks
2. A. career B. education C. relationship D. exploration
3. A. pull B. attract C. push D. advise
4. A. easy B. useful C. interesting D. suitable
