Unit 2 Growing pains學(xué)案
c. be very strict with themselves
d. think in the same way as their parents do.
3. young people like to have clothes, entertainment and music in their own way, because ______.
a. they want to try something new and look different from the older people
b. they want to make their parents angry
c. they try to get their parents into trouble
d. they know they are cleverer than the older people
4. when young people like to act without much thinking,________
a. they want to show they have grown up
b. they don’t feel like the way older people act
c. they want to get into trouble
d. they feel they are lonely
5. if a young man plans to control his own life, it’s better for him to
a. do everything according to his own wish.
b. do everything the way his parents do
c. do everything under his parents’ control
d. do everything with his own duty
b
children have their own rules in playing games. they don’t need referee(裁判) and don’t have trouble keeping scores. they don’t care much about who wins or loses, and it doesn’t seem to worry them if the game is not finished. however, they like games that depend a lot on luck, so that their personal abilities can’t be directly compared. they also enjoy games that moves in stages(階段), in which each stage, the choosing of leaders, the picking-up of sides, or the deciding of which side shall start, is almost a game in itself.
grown-ups can hardly find children’s games exciting, and they often feel puzzled (迷惑不解) at why their kids play such simple games again and again. however, it is found that a child plays games for very important reasons. he can be a good player without having to think whether he is a popular person, and he can find himself being a useful partner to someone of whom he is afraid. he becomes a leader when it comes to his turn. he can be confident, (自信的)too, in some games, that it is his place to give orders, to throw a ball actually at someone, or to kiss someone he had caught.
it appears to us that when children play a game they imagine a situation under their control. everyone knows the rules, and more importantly, everyone plays according to the rules. those rules may be childish, but they make sure that every child has a chance to win.