单选题 Encourage them and provide support when they seem open to it, but learn when to step back and let them make their way on their own ... (Para. 11)
A、Encourage them and provide support when they seem willing to accept it, but learn when to leave them alone and let them move forward by themselves ...
B、Encourage them and provide support when they seem open-minded, but learn when to take a necessary step and help them make progress ...
单选题 It's a delicate balance. (Para. 11)
A、It is a balance pleasing to the eye.
B、It is a balance that requires great care to achieve.
单选题 Sometimes parents are surprised and dismayed to find that the emotional and financial responsibilities of parenting last for many years longer than they had anticipated. (Para. 10)
A、Sometimes parents are surprised and alarmed to find that they have to support their children emotionally and financially for more years than they had expected.
B、Sometimes parents are surprised and enraged to find that they have to take up the financial and emotional responsibilities of their children.
单选题 ... something they regard with mixed feelings. (Para. 6)
A、... something which they consider both desirable and inevitable.
B、... something about which they feel uncertain because they see both the good and bad in it.
单选题 ... it has captured the human imagination for centuries. (Para. 1)
A、... human beings have been imagining winning the game for centuries.
B、... human beings have been attracted to it for centuries.
单选题 But there's a downside as well. (Para. 10)
A、But we can also see the disadvantage brought on by this new life stage.
B、But there might well be an opposite explanation for it.
单选题 Then fell checkers in 1994. (Para. 3)
A、Then checkers was defeated in 1994.
B、Then computers beat human beings in checkers in 1994.
单选题 ... as they search for work that is personally fulfilling, not just a job but an adventure. (Para. 1)
A、... as they search for work that they will be able to complete by themselves, a job that does not involve any risk.
B、... as they look for work that can satisfy themselves and be viewed as not only a job, but also an adventure.