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  3. The Asian tiger mom that Amy Chua portrays in her new book may seem like just one more species in the genus Extreme Parent-the c

The Asian tiger mom that Amy Chua portrays in her new book may seem like just one more species in the genus Extreme Parent-the c

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问题     The Asian tiger mom that Amy Chua portrays in her new book may seem like just one more species in the genus Extreme Parent-the counterpart to the hovering American helicopter parents who frantically rush ahead of their children, sweeping their paths clear of the tiniest obstacles.
    The common characteristics include an obsession with a child’s success, a reflex to treat kids as extensions or reflections of oneself and patterns of conduct that impartial observers might class as insane if not criminal. In Chua’s case, this famously include prohibiting graders lower than an A, TV, playdates and sleepovers, and warning her pianist child that "if the next time’s not perfect, I am going to take all your stuffed animals and burn them. "【C1】______.
    But it is the differences between the Tigers and the Helicopters that help explain the furor Chua has caused. Tigers fixate on success, defined as achievement in precision-oriented fields like music and math; Helicopters are obsessed with failure and preventing it at all costs. 【C2】______.
Tigers view children as tough, able to take the abuse; Helicopters view them as precious, to be raised under glass. Their fury at a bad grade is more likely to land on the teacher than on the child.
    【C3】______. "The thing that impresses me most America," observed Edward, Duke of Windsor, "is the way parents obey their children." But there is something bracing about Chua’s apparent indifference to her daughters’ hostility, especially for parents who have learned that even if you let your teenagers spend 50 hours a week on Facebook, they will still find reasons to hate you.
    【C4】______. You let your toddlers have Froot Loops? You quit karate lessons? Commenters spank the moms who appear insufficiently committed to breast feeding. "You literally make me shudder," reads one response on UrbanBaby. com. Some of Chua’s critics sound just as smug when they declare that the Tigers’ "inside-the-box" thinking is why Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and/or a cure for cancer will never come from China. "【C5】______
    But this much derision, I suspect, reflects some doubts. Western families, have no monopoly on happiness, and those of the helicopter variety at least do not exactly encourage wild individuality in their children. Chua’s daughters are, by all accounts, girls any parent would be proud of. But maybe the real appeal is her tone of certainty in discussing something so confounding as child rearing-as it is a puzzle to be solved rather than a picture to be painted, and there is no way to know what it will look like until it is done.
[A] Too much discipline, they argue, makes for submissiveness and lack of imagination, because imagination is by its nature subversive; it colors outside the lines. Likewise, invention, the creation of something utterly new, violates the authority of the present and the tyranny of tradition.
[B] One reason the book has touched such a nerve is a suspicion among the Helicopters that if you don’t let your kids get clobbered now and then by a tough teacher, they will never have the resilience to thrive as adults in a competitive economy.
[C] In the case of the classic Western helicopter parent, it starts with reward charts for toilet training, and it never really ends, which is why colleges have to devote so many resources to teaching parents how to leave their kids alone.
[D] Tigers operate in a culture of discipline; Helicopters, in a culture of fear.
[E] Helicopters parents are great believers in expertise: read enough books, consult enough professionals and you can crack the parenting code.
[F] Twenty-first century parenting already seemed like a gladiatorial contest, its battles fought in playgrounds, at book clubs and especially online, with the rise of parenting websites where parents claw and bite.
[G] If Chua appears to sentence her children to slave labor, Western parents enshrine their children and crave their friendship.
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答案C
解析 本文讨论的是2011年引起轰动的一本书，即美籍华人蔡美儿的作品《虎妈战歌》。开篇第一段介绍了美国有一类家长叫“直升机家长”。第二段的第一句话为主题句，道出了虎妈和直升机家长的共性。继而分别阐述两者的特征。先分析虎妈的特征，因此可以判断接下来就要讨论直升机家长的特征了。在七个选项中，[C]和[E]均是直升机家长的特征，但是选择时还要考虑内容和语言本身的连贯性。前文中有in Chua’s case这一关键词汇，而[C]中有in the case of…，与前文在语言上连贯。除此之外，前文谈论虎妈时有非常具体的例子，因此这里也应该有具体的例子，而[C]中恰好有toilet training的具体例子。综合看来，[C]为正确答案。
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