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The nation already has its soccer moms, hockey moms. But a new brand of push

游客2025-03-26  20
问题     The nation already has its soccer moms, hockey moms. But a new brand of pushy parent is suddenly the talk of Middle America: the no-nonsense "Tiger Mother."
    Amy Chua, a daughter of Chinese immigrants, coined the phrase in a newspaper article outlining her extraordinarily robust attempts to raise high-achieving kids. Within hours, she had become a media sensation.
    Her new book Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother shot to number six in the Amazon sales charts. Her article headlined "Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior" is the week’s most read article in The Wall Street Journal. It has generated a quarter of a million "likes" and six thousand reader comments, most of them hostile. Her wide publicity in other media has sparked a furious debate over the rights and wrongs of Western parenting.
    Chua’s book outlines the hard-line philosophy towards child rearing. It lists "watching TV playing computer games, playing any instrument other than the piano or violin, and "getting any grade less than an A," among the many things children should never be allowed to get away with. If they failed to complete 90 minutes of music practice each night, Chua would set fire to their teddy bears and threaten to donate their dolls houses to a charity store.
    In a society which has slipped consistently down the world rankings for academic achievement in recent decades, and as parenting standards have become ever more permissive, Chua’s book has struck a raw nerve, setting parents pondering how to discipline a child.
    Some call her a borderline child abuser; others say that her "tough love" approach gets results and should be widely copied. Plenty of others say that it advances a dangerous stereotype when America is increasingly suspicious about the rise of China.
    Invited onto NBC’s Today program this week, she said that her methods worked: Both girls are "straight A students." In a small concession, she has allowed them to learn tennis.
High suicide rates among Indian and Chinese immigrant children have been blamed on pressure to succeed, and there has been discontent about "Tiger Parenting" from within the Chinese community.
    "My first reaction was, ’Is this a joke?’ I kept waiting for the punch line," Frances Kai-Hwa Wang, 44, said. "Her methods are so crude. The humiliations and the shaming. The kids will hear that voice in their heads for the rest of their lives." [br] As mentioned in the last paragraph, Frances Kai-Hwa Wang thinks of Tiger Parenting as________.
选项 A、illegal
B、frightening
C、irresponsible
D、impressive
答案 B
解析 最后一段有个词组punch line，其含义是the funny sentence or phrase that ends a joke。恰好前面的句子是Is this a joke?，这表明Frances Kai-Hwa Wang希望这种玩笑到此为止。最后一句的大意是：妈妈的声音将时刻萦绕在孩子的耳边，伴随他们(她们)一辈子。但结合前面的rude，humiliations和shaming，可以判定这绝不是悦耳的声音，而是令孩子恐惧的声音。
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