[填空题]Many parents are pushing their children prematurely into adulthood and at ever-earlier ages they have to work hard to excel not only in academic study, but in sports and social life as well.

[填空题]Many parents are pushing their children prematurely into adulthood and at ever-earlier ages they have to work hard to excel not only in academic study, but in sports and social life as well.

[填空题]Modern children like to ask their parents many questions.

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Caring for Elderly Parents Catches Many Unprepared

A．Last July, Julie Baldocchi’s mother had a massive stroke and was paralyzed. Baldocchi suddenly had to become a family caregiver, something that she wasn’t prepared for. "I was flying by the seat of my pants," says Baldocchi, an employment specialist in San Francisco. Both of her parents are 83, and she knew her father couldn’t handle her mother’s care. The hospital recommended putting her mother in a nursing home. Baldocchi wasn’t willing to do that. But moving her back into her parents’ home created other problems. Baldocchi, 48, is married and lives about a mile away from her parents. She has a full-time job and has back problems that make it difficult for her to lift her mother. "I couldn’t do it all," she says. "But I didn’t even know how to find help."
B．With help from the Family Caregiver Alliance, she eventually hired a live-in caregiver. "But even if you plan intellectu

[单项选择] Many parents complain that their teenage children are rebelling. They greet their children’s teenage with needless dread. While teenagers may assault us with heavy-metal music, wear strange clothes, have strange hair styles, and spend all their time dating or meeting friends, such behavior scarcely adds up to full-scale revolt.
Take a good 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 wings, most of them are clutching at one another’s hands for reassurance. Their reason for thinking or acting in thus-and-such a way is that the crowd is doing it. It has become harder and harder for a teenager to stand up against the popularity wave and to go his or her own way. They have come out of their cocoon—into a larger cocoon.
Teenage rebellion, according to psychologist Laurence Steinberg, coauthor of You and Your Adolescent, has been greatly overstated.
A. ridiculous
B. unnecessary
C. unreasonable
D. sensible