四级考试阅读备考笔记（10）

　　9. The author thinks of advertisements as ____.

　　A) convincing B) influential

　　C) instructive D) authoritative

　　10. During the teen-age years, one should learn to ____.

　　A) differ from others in as many ways as possible

　　B) get into the right season and become popular

　　C) find ones real self

　　D) rebel against parents and the popularity waves

　　Questions 6 to 10 are based on the following passage:

　　I hear many parents complaining that their teen-age 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 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 own, most of them are clutching at(attempting to seize) one anothers hands for reassurance.

　　注：1.rebel 背叛、反叛

　　2.从第一句话看出本文是文科文章，所以从态度着手，I wish it were so 说明作者是负态度。

　　3.should 虚拟语气，表示负态度

　　4.reassurance=re+assure-ance 使确信;boldly 勇敢的;strike out 开辟

　　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 crowded 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 larger cocoon.

　　注：1.But 表明作者负态度

　　2.set off 开始 3.end up 结果

　　4.reason 用来解释前面的现象

　　5.把青少年从众心理比喻成蚕茧