Part Ⅲ Reading Comprehension （40 minutes）

Directions：In this section，there is a passage with ten blanks.You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage.Read the passage through carefully before making your choices.Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter.Please mark the corresponding letter for each item on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre.You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.

Questions 26 to 35 are based on the following passage.

It is not unusual today for old people to spoil their grandchildren with toys and sweets and to 26 to their aggressive demands.It is natural that old people adore（爱）their grandchildren，but is not normal that this adoration should go so far as to create little emperors and empresses.Such adoration has a 27 effect on the children’s personalities and moral standards.A survey of 152 such families found that 88 percent of grandparents admitted that they tended to yield to their grandchildren’s every request，especially if the children had resorted to tears.

It seems that when children are told off by their parents or teachers，their elder relatives interfere protecting and comforting the children.When the children are 28 to do some family chores（杂务），59 percent of the old people said they would invariably（总是）do it for them.Some grandparents would even go to 29 to sweep floors and wash windows for their grandchildren.

It has become usual that when little boys and girls get good 30 in examinations，their grandparents reward them.As a result，the children have come to take these favours for granted（认为……是理所当然） and have become less 31 towards others.

Parents and teachers have all appealed to old people to be 32 for the sake of future generations.

The problems of these spoiled children can be 33.First，parents and grandparents should understand that their 34 is to train the children to become both self-controlled and self-dependent.Second，they should allow the children to be more independent.And third，young parents should 35 with the old instead of leaving the grandparents entirely responsible to raise the children.

A）beneficial I）quarrel

B）considerate J）required

C）cooperate K）school

D）information L）sensible

E）marks M）solved

F）negative N）task

G）participated O）yield

H）precisely