It is not unusual today for old people to spoil their grandchildren with toys and sweets and to (36) 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 (37) 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 (38) 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 (39) to sweep floors and wash windows for their grandchildren.
It has become usual that when little boys and girls get good (40) in examinations, their grandparents reward them. As a result, the children have come to take these favours for granted and have become less (41) towards others.
Parents and teachers have all appealed to old people to be (42) for the sake of future generations.
The problems of these spoiled children can be (43) . First, parents and grandparents should understand that their 44 is to train the children to become both self-controlled and self-reliant. Second, they should allow the children to be more independent. And third, young parents should (45) with the old instead of leaving the grandparents entirely responsible to raise the children.
A．task
B．precisely
C．required
D．information
E．considerate
F．negative
G．quarrel
H．solved
I．cooperate
J．yield
K．sensible
L．participated
M．marks
N．beneficial
O．school