Most teens I meet these days lack basic social courtesy(礼仪) when dealing with people.
My own son, who basically ___1___ with his grandmother, the original manners guru(专家), has perfect table manners. This is partly because he was____2____to manners at a very young age. However, when we eat at home, he would not ____3____manners. So I asked him why. He said, ''I behave the way I am supposed to ____4____ when I'm out, but when I am at home，I want to be ____5____.''
That's when I realized that most parents, myself included, do ___6___ their children the proper way to behave outside the home, but they are also ____7____to believe that at home, anything goes.
My ____8____to him was ''good behavior has nothing to do with where you are or whom you are with''.
Then he answered, ''But I behave ____9____when I'm with others so that they think better of me. '' And that is when I realized that I was doing things all _____10_____. I explained to him that it had nothing to do with what people think. This _____11_____ him even more.
So I went on to explain that behavior, whether in your everyday _____12_____with people or at the dining table at home, is an _____13_____ of who you are. Well, at the age of 13, he got it.
So basically, what I am saying is that teaching your children ____14____ comes with the underlying(暗含的) lesson that it is not about _____15_____ to do or not to do, but rather, who they are. This way it is not _____16_____; it comes from within.
Teach your teens or children the_____17_____courtesy of greeting their friends' parents and _____18_____themselves when they go to someone’s home. Teach teenage boys to open the door of a car, or any door for anyone who ____19____, for any girl, whether they are their girlfriends or not. This includes holding elevator doors or letting women step out of the elevator first. Just _____20_____that teenage boys who practice good manners' and courtesy grow up to become men who respect people in general.
1. A. came up B. grew up C. turned up D. showed up
2. A. exposed B. limited C. cared D. concerned
3. A. learn B. practice C. remember D. make
4. A. live B. obey C. react D. behave
5. A. gentle B. polite C. comfortable D. kind
6. A. guide B. offer C. teach D. support
7. A. attended to B. brought up C. cared about D. depended on
8. A. answer B. devotion C. apology D. affection
9. A. strangely B. nervously C. calmly D. properly
10. A. reasonable B. important C. wrong D. necessary
11. A. confused B. encouraged C. moved D. pleased
12. A. competition B. argument C. struggle D. interaction
13. A. impression B. expression C. appearance D. attitude
14. A. lessons B. skills C. manners D. examples
15. A. what B. how C. where D. why
16. A. possible B. violent C. strange D. mechanical
17. A. minor B. formal C. basic D. casual
18. A. pleasing B. introducing C. enjoying D. amusing
19. A. admires B. forgives C. consults D. matters
20. A. remember B. confirm C. predict D. consider
【答案】1. B 2. A 3. B 4. D 5. C 6. C 7. B 8. A 9. D 10. C 11. A 12. D 13. B 14. C 15. A 16. D 17. C 18. B 19. D 20. A
