Parents and kids today dress alike，listen to the same music，and are friends．Is this a good thing？Sometimes，when Mr．Ballmer and his 16-year-old daughter，Elizabeth，listen to rock music together and talk about interests they both enjoy，such as pop culture，he remembers his more distant relationship with his parents when he was a teenager．
"I would never have said to my mom，'Hey，the new Weezer album is really great．How do you like it？'"says Ballmer．"There was just a complete gap in taste．"
Music was not the only gulf．From clothing and hairstyles to activities and expectations，earlier generations of parents and children often appeared to move in separate orbits（軌道）．
Today，the generation gap has not disappeared，but it is getting narrow in many families．And parent-child activities，from shopping to sports，involve a feeling of trust and friendship that can continue into adulthood．
But family experts warn that the new equality can also result in less respect for parents．"There's still a lot of strictness and authority（權(quán)威） on the part of parents out there，but there is a change happening，"says Kerrie，a psychology professor at Lebanon Valley College．"In the
middle of that change，there is a lot of confusion among parents．"
Family researchers offer a variety of reasons for these changing roles and attitudes．They see the 1960s as a turning point．Great cultural changes led to more open communication and a more democratic（民主的） process that encourages everyone to have a say．
"My parents were on the'before' side of that change，but today's parents，the 40-year-olds，were on the'after' side，"explains Mr．Ballmer．"It's not something easily achieved by parents these days，because life is more difficult to understand or deal with，but sharing interests does make it more fun to be a parent now．"
（1）The underlined word"gulf"in Para.3 most probably means AA．
A．difference
B．interest
C．similarity
D．cooperation
（2）The change in today's parent-child relationship is BB．
A．more confusion among children．
B．less respect for parents from children．
C．new equality between parents and children．
D．more strictness and authority on the part of parents．
（3）By saying"today's parents，the 40-year-olds，were on the'after' side．"the author means that today's parents DD．
A．can set a limit to the change．
B．follow the trend of the change．
C．fail to take the change seriously．
D．have little difficulty adjusting（適應(yīng)）to the change．
（4）The purpose of the passage is to AA．
A．describe the difficulties today's parents have met with．
B．discuss the development of the parent-child relationship．
C．suggest the ways to handle the parent-child relationship．
D．compare today's parent-child relationship with that in the past．
【考點】社會．
【答案】A；B；D；A
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