高考英语二轮复习：第二部分专题三议论文2-3素能特训.docVIP

　　建议用时：45分钟 Ⅰ.完形填空 [2015·南京盐城质检二]Why do young adult children become independent so much later than they did in 1970,when the average age of independent living was 21? Why have reduced class sizes and increased per-pupil expenditures (花销) not __1__ higher academic achievement levels? Why is the mental health of todays kids so poor when __2__ with that of children in the 1960s and before? Why do todays __3__ become defensive when told by teachers that their children have misbehaved in school? The answer in two words: parental __4__. Those two words best summarize the __5__ between “old” child raising and new, post-1960s parenting. Then, the overall philosophy was that parents were not to be __6__ involved with their kids. They were available __7__ crisis, but they stood a (an) __8__ distance from their kids and allowed them to experience the benefits of the trial-and-error process. It was the childs __9__， back then, to keep his or her parents from getting involved. That was __10__ children learned to be responsible and determined. Todays parents help their kids with almost everything. These are parents who are __11__ when it comes to an understanding of their purpose in their kids lives. Their involvement leads them to personalize everything that happens to their kids; __12__， the defensiveness. But given that schools and mental health professionals have been pushing parent involvement for nearly four decades, the confusion and defensiveness are __13__. University researchers analyzed three decades of data relating to parents participation in childrens academics. Their conclusions __14__ what Ive been saying since the 1980s: parental help with homework __15__ a childs academic achievement and is not reflected on standardized tests. Parents who manage a childs social life interfere with the __16__ of good social skills. Parents who manage a childs after-school activities grow kids who dont know how to __17__ their own free time. Parents who get involved in thei