Questions 36 to 45 are based on the following passage.
“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.” But parents can’t handle it when teenagers put this __26__ into practice. Now technology has become the new field for the age-old battle between adults and their freedom-seeking kids.
Locked indoors, unable to get on their bicycles and hang out with their friends, teens have turned to social media and their mobile phones to socialize with their peers. What they do online often __27__ what they might otherwise do if their mobility weren’t so heavily __28__ in the age of helicopter parenting. Social media and smart-phone apps have become so popular in recent years because teens need a place to call their own. They want the freedom to __29__ their identity and the world around them. instead of __30__ out, they jump online.
As teens have moved online, parents have projected their fears onto the Internet, imagining all the __31__ dangers that youth might face —from __32__ strangers to cruel peers to pictures or words that could haunt them on Google for the rest of their lives.
Rather than helping teens develop strategies for negotiating public life and the risks of __33__ with others, fearful parents have focused on tracking, monitoring and blocking. These tactics(策略)don’t help teens develop the skills they need to manage complex social situations, __34__ risks and get help when they’re in trouble. “Protecting” kids may fed like the right thing to do, but it __35__ the learning that teens need to do as they come of age in a technology-soaked world.
A) assess
B) constrained
C) contains
D) explore
E) influence
F) interacting
G) interpretation
H) magnified
I) mirrors
J) philosophy
K) potential
L) sneaking
M) sticking
N) undermines
O) violent
答案解析：
26. J根据上下文，开篇引用了一句名言“Those which does not kill us makes us stronger”(杀不死我们的，会让我们更强大)。这句话代表的是一种人生哲理或信条。空格前的代词 "this" 指代的就是这句话所蕴含的思想。因此，"philosophy"(哲学，信条)最符合语境。
27. I空格前是主语 "What they do online"(他们在网上做的事)，空格后是宾语 "what they might otherwise do"(他们本可能会做的事)。这句话在比较线上行为和线下行为。根据后文“如果他们的行动自由没有被如此限制”，可知线上行为是线下行为的反映或镜像。"mirrors"(反映，映照)能准确表达这种对应关系。
28. B空格前是副词 "heavily"(严重地)，后文提到了“直升机式育儿”(helicopter parenting)，这是一种过度保护、严格控制孩子自由的育儿方式。因此，青少年的行动自由(mobility)是被严重限制了。"constrained"(限制，约束)符合此意。
29. D空格前是 "freedom to"(做……的自由)，后接 "their identity and the world around them"(他们的身份和周围的世界)。青少年需要自由去探索自我和世界，这是一个非常常见的搭配。"explore"(探索)是最佳选择。
30. L根据前文，青少年被锁在室内，不能骑自行车和朋友出去玩。空格处与 "jump online"(跳到网上)形成对比，构成 "Instead of doing A, they do B"(不是做A，而是做B)的结构。他们本应是偷偷溜出去玩，现在则转而上网。"sneaking out"(溜出去，偷偷跑出去)是固定搭配，符合语境。
31. K"potential"(潜在的)用来修饰 "dangers" 非常贴切。
32. O空格后是名词 "strangers"(陌生人)。这里列举了父母想象中的网络危险，从……的陌生人，到刻薄的同龄人。通常在网络语境下，父母最担心的陌生人之一就是有暴力倾向的。"violent"(暴力的)符合这种担忧的语境。
33. F 空格前是介词 "of"，后接 "with others"(与他人)。这句话在讨论青少年需要学习应对公共生活和与他人交往的风险。"interacting with others"(与他人互动/交往)是固定搭配，符合句意。
34. A空格前是逗号，与 "managing complex social situations"(处理复杂社交局面)和 "get help when they’re in trouble"(遇到麻烦时求助)构成并列关系，都是青少年需要发展的技能。在复杂局面中，他们需要学会评估风险。"assess risks"(评估风险)是常用搭配。
35. N空格前是主语 "it"(指代前文的“保护”行为)，空格后是 "the learning"(青少年需要的学习)。这句话是全文的结论：保护行为感觉上是对的，但实际上却损害/削弱了青少年必要的学习过程。"undermines"(削弱，损害)能准确表达这种消极影响。
