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Parents are often upset when their children praise the homes of their friend

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问题     Parents are often upset when their children praise the homes of their friends and regard it as a slur (诋 毁) on their own cooking, or cleaning, or furniture, and often are foolish enough to let the teenagers see that they are annoyed. They may even accuse them of disloyalty, or make some unpleasant remark about the friends’ parents. Such a loss of dignity and descent into childish behavior on the part of the adults deeply shocks the teenagers, and makes them decide that in future they will not talk to their parents about the places or people they visit. Before very long the parents will be complaining that the child is so secretive and never tells them anything, but they seldom realize that they have brought this on themselves.
    Disillusionment (幻想破灭) with the parents, however good and adequate they may be bom as parents and as individuals, is to some degree inevitable. Most children have such a high ideal of their parents, unless the parents themselves have been unsatisfactory, that it can hardly hope to stand up to a realistic evaluation. Parents would be greatly surprised and deeply touched if they realized how much belief their children usually have in their character and infallibility (一贯正确), and how much this faith means to a child. If parents were prepared for this teen-aged reaction, and realized that it was a sign that the child was growing up and developing valuable powers of observation and independent judgment, they would not be so hurt, and therefore would not drive the child into opposition by resenting and resisting it.
    The teenager, with his passion for sincerity, always respects a parent who admits that he is wrong, or ignorant, or even that he has been unfair or unjust. What the child can’t forgive is the parents’ refusal to admit these charges if the child knows them to be true.
    Victorian (维多利亚时代的) parents believed that they kept their dignity by retreating behind an unreasoning authoritarian attitude; in fact they did nothing of the kind, but children were then too frightened to let them know how they really felt. Today we tend to go to the other extreme, but on the whole this is a healthier attitude both for the child and the parent. It is always wiser and safer to face up to reality, however painful it may be at the moment. [br] In line 2, paragraph 2, by "high ideal" the author means_____.
选项 A、the realistic evaluation
B、children’s strong belief in their parents’ character and infallibility
C、the parents’ preparation for the adolescent reaction
D、parents’ being good and adequate
答案 B
解析 推断题。第二段一开始就讲到大多数孩子对父母都抱着幻想，作者在第二句中虽然提到了“highideal”一词，但是却没有直接解释这个词的具体含义，因此我们可以根据上下文语境推断：接下去的第三句中提到的孩子对父母人格的信任以及认为他们是绝对正确“belief in their character and infallibility”这两点便是对“high ideal”的解释。因此，选项B是正确的。其他选项都不是孩子对父母的看法，因此不符题意。
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