[单项选择]Pablo Picasso is listed among the many gifted children who______.


A. paid no attention to their teachers in class.
B. contradicted their teachers much too often.
C. could not cope with their studies at school successfully.
D. behaved arrogantly and stubbornly in the presence of their teachers.

I hear many parents complaining their teenage children are rebelling. I wish it were so. At your age you ought to be growing away from your parents. You should be learning to stand on your own two feet. But take a look at the present rebellion. It seems that teenagers are all taking the same way of showing that they disagree with their parents.
Instead of striking out boldly on their own, most of them are ducting(通过管道输送) at one another’s hands for reassurance.
They claim they want to dress as they please. But they all wear the same clothes. They set off in new directions in music. But somehow they all end up huddled round listening to the same record. Their reason for thinking or acting in thus—and such a way is that the crowd is doing it. They have come out of their cocoon(蚕茧) into a large cocoon. It has become harder and harder for a teenager to stand up against the popularity wave and to go his or her own way. Industry has firmly carved out
A. readers how to be popular with people around
B. teenagers how to learn to decide things for themselves
C. parents how to control and guide their children
D. people how to understand and respect each other