高中英语牛津上海版高中二年级第一学期 Unit1-Unit3巩固提升练习(有答案).pdfVIP

U1-U3 巩固提升练习 Grammar and Vocabulary Section A: Read the following two passages. Fill in each blank with one proper word or the proper form of the given word to make the passage coherent. Make sure that your answers are grammatically correct. (A) Parents feel that it is difficult to live with teenagers. Then again, teenagers have similar feelings about their parents, __25_____( say) that it is not easy living with them. According to recent research, the most common argument between parents and teenagers is that regarding untidiness and daily routine tasks. On the one hand, parents go mad about messy rooms, clothes thrown on the floor and their childrens refusal to help with the housework. On the other hand, teenagers lose their patience continually when parents blame them ____26____ dropping the towel in the bathroom, not ___27___( clean) up their room or refusing to do the shopping at the supermarket. The research , conducted by St. George University, ___28____(show) that different parents have different approaches to these problems. However, some approaches are more popular than others. For example, those parents who yell at their children for their untidiness, but __29___( late ) clean the room for them, have fewer chances of changing their childrens behavior. On the contrary, those who let teenagers experience the consequences of their actions can do better. For example, when teenagers who dont help their parents with the shopping dont find their favorite drink in the refrigerator, they ____30___ (force) to reconsider their action. Psychologists say that communication is the most important thing in parent-child relationships. Parents should talk to their children but at the same time they should lend an ear to what they have to say. Parent