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Today’s parents – who were raised on Greatest Generation[6] values of harsh (1) … and self-denial – (2) … to a culture where “no” was a household word. Eloise Goldman, a publicist, says that as a teenager, she had to beg for a phone in her room. In a world of (3) … where families spend (4) … at the mall instead of in the backyard, her request seems almost quaint. Today’s (5) … want much more, partly because there’s a whole (6) … to want.
Goldman (7) … to hold the line. She was (8) … about spending $250 on a mini iPod[7] for her 9-year-old son Ben. The price tag was a (9) … for her and her fund-raiser husband, Jon. Initially, she was (10) … of buying such an extravagant gadget for a kid still unaware of long division. If she (11) …, how would Ben ever learn that you can’t always (12) …? Goldman bore a hope the iPod would soon be abandoned, just like Ben’s (13) …-of-choice from last year, a blue drum set that now sits forlornly in the basement of their suburban New York home. But Ben nagged and (14) … that “everyone has one”. Goldman was nearly (15) … acceptance. She wanted Ben to have what the other kids had; he is a (16) … kid, she reasoned. After (17) … with a neighborhood-mom community and finding that Ben’s (18) … were indeed wired for sound, she caved – but attempted to salvage some lesson about (19) …. She offered her son a deal. We give you an iPod, you (20) … your birthday party. “Done,” he said. Then, without missing a beat: “Now what about getting me my own Apple G4?”
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Ex. 4. Read the following text and decide which option (A, B or C) fits each gap.
It’s an (1) … legacy of the affluent ‘90s: parents who can’t say no. This generation of parents has always been (2) … to giving their kids every advantage, from Mommy & Me swim classes all the way to that thick envelope from an elite college. But (3) … their good intentions, too many find themselves (4) … “wanting machines” who respond like Pavlovian dogs to the marketing (5) … that’s aimed right at them. Even getting the (6) … of it doesn’t satisfy some kids – they only want more. Now, a (7) … of psychologists, educators and parents think it’s time to (8) … away with the madness and start teaching kids about what’s really important through (9) … values like hard work, delayed gratification, honesty and parental regard. In a few (10) …, parents have begun to reassert control by (11) … together to enforce limits and rules so that no one has to take the blame for denying her 6-year-old a $300 Nokia cell phone with all the latest bells and whistles.
While it goes (12) … saying that affluent parents can raise happy and (13) … children, the struggle to put strains (14) … has never been tougher. Saying is harder when you can afford to say yes. But the (15) … have also never been higher. Recent studies of adults who were (16) … as children paint a grim picture of their future. Kids who’ve been given too much too soon (17) … into adults who have difficulty fitting (18) … life. Psychologists say parents who are (19) … with their kids may actually be setting them up to be more (20) … to future anxiety and trauma. “The hazard of (21) … permissiveness is self-absorption, and that’s a mental-health risk,” says William Damon, director of the Stanford University Center on (22) …. “You sit around feeling anxious all the time instead of (23) … in on what you can do to make a difference in the world.”
A B C
1) alarming gratifying irretrievable
2) furthered intent driven
3) in spite despite due
4) rearing upbringing breeding
5) novices news fads
6) turn wind spin
7) shoal flock herd
8) do make deal
9) renouncing recovering reviving
10) communions commitments communities
11) banding ganging hanging out
12) without out of beneath
13) self-possessed self-obsessed self-indulging
14) threads strains reins
15) points risks stakes
16) babied kidded toddled
17) degenerate descend debilitate
18) with into for
19) harsh lax hardy
20) fearful prone intent
21) exclusive excretive excessive
22) adolescence juvenilia adulthood
23) zapping zooming zeroing
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