高中英语必修Bok8unit1同步检测.docVIP

Until 同步检测 Ⅰ.阅读理解As parents，we always want what is best for our children.But finding that balance between allowing them to spread their wings and become independent and keeping them safe seems to be becoming increasingly difficult.In the past few weeks there have been two cases in which teens have murdered younger children. The truth is that we just don’t know，so how can we possibly let our children out of our sight？I know my son is capable of going to use the bathroom at a restaurant by himselfh the short wooded path at the park that is within yelling distance，but there is another access to the wooded area where someone could snatch him and take him out the other side before I would know it.Even when “all the other kids are doing it”as a mother my answer is “no”，because the what-ifs are too great. But we also can’t live in fear.At some point we will have to let them out of our sight or the sight of their teachers.When I think about 10-year-old Jessica Ridgeway walking to school in Colorado and 12-year-old Autumn Pasquale riding her bike，I think that their parents must be devastated(不安的)that they allowed them out on their owno do them，but they still were victims to the evil of their neighbors. The world will never be rid of evil people.And it’s probably not even possible to say that it’s more evil now than it was when I was a kid.The news didn’t spread quite as far or as quickly as it does now with the Internet so people weren’t faced with stories about it every single day.I don’t know when will be the right time to let my son become more independent in this world.In the meantime，I will try to teach him how to protect himself without trying to scare him into being afraid to leave the house.Life isn’t all good，and while I try to shield him from the evil in this world，it’s important that I also teach him about it so that he is well armed if something bad happens to him－which I pray never happens.【文章大意】　作者就两个孩子独自上学而被害这一事件进行思考：如何在让孩子独立和保持安全之间寻找平衡？n