题目内容：

Do parents owe their kids anything? Starting from my position, parents do not owe their children a ____ education. If they can ____ it, they can ______ send them to the best universities. But they must not feel guilty if they can’t. If the children really want to go, they’ll find a _____. There are plenty of loans (贷款) and scholarships for the bright and _____ ones who can’t afford to pay.

When children grow up and want to _____, their parents do not owe them a down payment on a house. They do not have the ____ to baby-sit their grandchildren. If they want to do it, it must be considered a ____ not a responsibility.

Do parents owe their children anything? Yes, they owe them a great deal.

One of their duties is to give their children a personal ______. A child who is constantly made to feel stupid and unworthy, constantly ____ to brighter brothers, sisters, or cousins will be so ____, so afraid of failing that he (or she) won’t try at all. Of course they should be ____ corrected when they do wrong, but it’s often better to let children learn their mistakes by themselves ____. All our parents should do is to trust them, respect them, tolerate (宽容) them and give them chances to try and fail. They must learn to stand ____. When criticisms (批评) are really needed, they should be ____ with praises, with a smile and a kiss. That is the way children learn.

Parents owe their children a set of solid values around ____ they build their lives. This means teaching them to ____ the rights and opinions of others; it means being respectful to elders, to teachers, and to the law. The best way to teach such values is by ____. A child who is lied to will lie. A child seeing no laughter and no love in the home will have ____ laughing and loving.

No child asks to be ____. If you bring a life into the world, you owe the child something.

1.A. college    B. formal    C. usual    D. foreign

2.A. find    B. get    C. afford    D. receive

3.A. gradually    B. certainly    C. hardly    D. finally

4.A. supply    B. help    C. hand    D. way

5.A. handsome    B. honest    C. eager    D. wealthy

6.A. get married    B. get a job    C. go abroad    D. live alone

7.A. time    B. right    C. duty    D. energy

8.A. favor    B. pleasure    C. habit    D. service

9.A. worth    B. affair    C. belief    D. respect

10.A. brought    B. compared    C. forced    D. taken

11.A. unsure    B. unusual    C. unknown    D. unfair

12.A. properly    B. gently    C. nearly    D. possibly

13.A. now and then    B. in time    C. at once    D. right now

14.A. failure    B. honor    C. progress    D. test

15.A. mixed    B. satisfied    C. shared    D. balanced

16.A. it    B. which    C. whom    D. what

17.A. consider    B. refuse    C. respect    D. know

18.A. explanation    B. time    C. word    D. deed

19.A. pleasure    B. difficulty    C. fun    D. freedom

20.A. praised    B. alone    C. born    D. poor