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  3. Ten years ago, Joe Allen began studying a diverse group of seventh graders n

Ten years ago, Joe Allen began studying a diverse group of seventh graders n

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问题     Ten years ago, Joe Allen began studying a diverse group of seventh graders near the University of Virginia, where he’s a professor. One of Allen’s main concerns was how these kids dealt with peer pressure, and how deeply they felt the pressure to conform to what the crowd was doing.
    According to every pop theory of adolescence, peer pressure is peril. Being able to resist it should be considered a sign of character strength. But a funny thing happened as Allen continued to follow these kids every year for the next 10 years: the kids who felt more peer pressure when they were 12 or 13 were turning out better.
    Notably, they had much higher-quality relationships with friends, parents, and romantic partners. Their need to fit in, in the early teens, later manifested itself as a willingness to accommodate—a necessary component of all reciprocal relationships. The self-conscious kid who spent seventh grade convinced that everyone was watching her learned to be attuned to subtle changes in others’ moods. Years down the road, that heightened sensitivity lead to empathy and social adeptness. Meanwhile, those kids who did not feel much peer pressure to smoke, drink, and shoplift in seventh grade didn’t turn out to be the independent-minded stars we’d imagine. Instead, what was notable about them was that within five years they had a much lower GPA(Grade-Point Average)—almost a full grade lower. The kid who could say no to his peers turned out to be less engaged, all around, socially and academically. Basically, if he was so detached that he didn’t care what his peers thought, he probably wasn’t motivated by what his parents or society expected of him, either.
    Allen has found that vulnerability(脆弱性)to peers’ influence can be just as much of an asset as it is a liability. Many of the pressures felt by teens pull them in a good direction—they feel pressure to do well in school, pressure to not act childish, and pressure to be athletic. "We think of susceptibility to peer pressure as only a danger, but, really, it’s out of peer pressure that boys learn to take showers and not come to school smelly.
    Allen—co-author of the forthcoming book Escaping the Endless Adolescence—has come to the conclusion that the dangers of peer pressure are somewhat overblown. Particularly when it comes to the archetypal(典型的)portrayal of peer pressure: kids forcing each other to experiment with drugs and alcohol. Allen argues that in those instances, more often than not, it isn’t peer pressure that is at work, but instead the operative factor is peer selection.
    "The pressure to smoke and drink is less than we thought, " concludes Allen. "To a parent, it seems like your child is suddenly smoking and drinking, and it’s reasonable to think this was caused by the new kids he’s been hanging out with the last month. But really, those who are about to smoke or drink pick other kids in a similar spot. " Teens give each other subtle cues that they’re ready to deviate: it could be nothing more than ignoring the Pledge of Allegiance(效忠誓言)or a well-timed snicker while the teacher’s at the blackboard. By the time one says, "Let’s hang out after school, " the plot is already in motion. [br] What is the main idea of the passage?
选项 A、Teens who feel more peer pressure turn out to be better, not worse.
B、High sensitivity to subtle changes in others’ moods leads to social adeptness.
C、The dangers of peer pressure are somewhat exaggerated by the parents.
D、It isn’t peer pressure at work when kids forcing each other to smoke and drink.
答案 A
解析 主旨题、本文主要通过Allen的跟踪调查研究结果说明其不同于流行观点的结论：感受到更多同伴压力的青少年结果会更好。所以[A]”感受到更多同伴压力的青少年结果会更好，而非更坏”是对文章主旨的概括，故选[A]。[B]”对别人情绪细微变化的高度敏感性导致了社交的熟练”，是同伴压力带来的一个好处，但不足以概括全文主旨，排除；文中并未提到同伴压力的危险是父母夸大的，所以[C]”同伴压力的危险有些被父母夸大了”也排除；[D]”当孩子们彼此强迫对方抽烟喝酒时，不是同伴压力在起作用”只是对文章后两段Allen的观点的概括，不足以概括全文主旨，也排除。
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