Teens want structure in their lives, which means they want their lives well-planned. To begin building structure, teens need love and trust. They need to know their parents arc there to give them needed love and support (支持).Teens want to be sure that nothing can prevent parents from shouldering their responsibility for them — not their growing maturity (成熟),misbehavior, nor anger at something they have done. Teens want parents to keep control while allowing them to make some decisions.
There are some ways you can help your teens create reasonable structure and remain close. One way is to spend time together. Parents often mistake their teens’ increased interest in friends for a disinterest in the family.
Teens would like to spend more time doing things with their parents, but watching TV is not counted as spending time together. As your teens mature, it is important for you and your teens spend time alone together, one to one. Your teens need time to talk to you alone without any other family member present.
Talk with your teens about their interests and concerns. Make sure you really show interest in what is happening. When talking with your teens, give full attention and do not stop them.
The way to help your teens become adults is to let your teens into your world. Sharing your emotions and concerns with your teens is important. Avoid causing needless worry.
Trust your teens. Don't expect the worst. Hope for the best. Telling your teens you don’t like their friends will cause the teens not to bring their friends home. If something should go wrong, believe that your teens didn’t do it on purpose.
It is very important that you treat your teens with respect. Teens need the same respect adults show for total strangers. Don’t talk down to your teens.
You need to be supportive o f your teens. What may be a small problem to you may be troubling to your teens. Teens don't have the experiences that adults have had. Let the teens know that you understand how much it hurts when something happens that is upsetting or hurtful to them. As they mature, they can look back at some problems they had and laugh at having been upset by something that now seems unimportant.
The most important things to remember are: talk with your teens, listen to their worries and offer suggestions when needed. This will help your teens to live a well-organized life.
小题1:According to Paragraph 1, teens ______________.

A．can control themselves.

B．expect direction and freedom.

C．don’t know how to make decision

D．don’t have responsibility for the family

小题2:The underline part “counted as” in Paragraph 3 probably means “____”.

A．compared with	B．used as
C．connected with	D．regarded as

小题3:To help teens organize their lives , parents should __________.

A．invite their teens’ friends home.

B．leave their teens’ problems alone.

C．share their feelings with their teens.

D．pay little attention to their teens’ daily lives.

小题4:What is the best title of the passage ?

A．Training Teens to Become Responsible Adults.

B．Helping Teens to Build Reasonable Structure.

C．Improving the Relationship with Your Teens.

D．Stepping into Your Teens’ Secret Word.

Activities This Weekend

An Open-air Craft (工艺) Market In Front of the City Hall Sunday from 8:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. Need to buy a present? Find bamboo toys, paper flowers, paper umbrellas, model cars and more! Food from around the world, too!	City Museum Travel Movies Meeting Room Sat. & Sun. at 2:30 p.m. Do you want to travel but don’t have enough money? See movies on Japan, Italy, America, England, Russia, and Australia. There are only 80 seats, so come early.	Autumn Fashion Show Golden Shopping Center Sunday at 3:00 p.m. Men’s and women’s autumn clothes. See 25 handsome and pretty models show the latest fashions. All clothing will be on sale after the show for under ¥100.
Pop Concert at Yunhai Square Saturday from 9:00 p.m. to midnight Five groups of college students are going to play the guitar and sing pop songs. Bring your own food and drink.	Library Lecture City Library Hall Saturday at 10:00 a.m. How to find the job that you really want! Two-hour lecture. Advice on choosing and getting the right job for you. Coke and sandwiches are sold.

小题1:Are you a movie fan? Then you can go to _____.

A．Autumn Fashion Show	B．City Museum
C．City Library Hall	D．Yunhai Square

小题2:People can buy presents _____.

A．at Yunhai Square

B．in City Library Hall

C．in City Museum

D．at Open-air Craft Market

小题3:If people want to get some information about getting jobs, they can _____.

A．see the movies

B．go to the pop concert

C．see the fashion show

D．go to the library lecture

小题4:Pop concert at Yunhai Square will begin _____.

A．at 9:00 p.m., Saturday

B．at 2:30 a.m., Saturday and Sunday

C．at 10:00 am., Sunday

D．at 8:30 a.m., Sunday

小题5:Which of the following is not true?

A．The two-hour Library Lecture takes place in City Library Hall.

B．There are few kinds of food at the Open-air Craft Market.

C．All clothing will be on sale after the fashion show for under ¥100.

D．Only 80 seats are available for travel movies.