Your peers are people your age or close to it who have experiences and interests similar to yours. You and your friends make dozens of decisions every day, and you influence each other’s choices and behavior. This is often ________ --- it’s human nature to listen to and learn from other people in your age group.
Sometimes, though, the stresses in your life can actually come from your peers. They may pressure you into doing something you’re uncomfortable with, such as shoplifting, doing drugs or drinking, or taking dangerous risks when driving a car.
The pressure to conform（隨潮流） can be powerful and hard to resist. A person might feel pressure to do something just because others are doing it. Peer pressure can influence a person to do something that is relatively harmless--- or something that has more serious consequences.
People may feel pressure to conform, so they fit in or are accepted, or so they don’t feel awkward or uncomfortable. When people are unsure of what to do in a social situation, they naturally look to others for cues（暗示）about what is and isn’t acceptable.
The people who are most easily influenced will follow someone else’s lead first. Then others may go along, too --- so it can be easy to think, “It must be OK. Everyone else is doing it. They must know what they’re doing.” Before you know it, many people are going along with the crowd --- perhaps on something they might not otherwise do.
Responding to peer pressure is part of human nature --- but some people are more likely to give in, and others are better able to resist and stand their ground.
It’s not always easy to resist negative peer pressure. But when you do, it is easy to feel good about it afterwards. And you may even be a positive influence on your peers who feel the same way --- often it just takes one person to speak out or take a different action to change a situation.
小題1:Which of the following is a kind of peer pressure?
A．Your teachers give you a lot of homework.
B．Your parents expect high scores from you.
C．Your classmates persuade you to cut class.
D．Your relatives invite you to attend a party.
小題2:Which is most likely to be filled in the blank in Paragraph 1?
A．negative
B．impossible
C．positive
D．uncertain
小題3:Most people tend to do what others are doing in order to _________.
A．feel a sense of achievement
B．get a feeling of being accepted
C．set a good example for others
D．stand out in a crowd
小題4:What can we know according to the author?
A．Giving in to peer pressure is unavoidable.
B．Peer pressure usually leads to serious results.
C．Going along with the crowd usually means making a right choice.
D．Everyone can make a difference by resisting negative peer pressure.
小題5:This passage is mainly about _______.
A．thoughts on peer pressure
B．different types of peer pressure
C．ways to deal with peer pressure
D．the influence of peer pressure on people

小題1:C
小題2:C
小題3:B
小題4:D
小題5:A

試題分析：本文主要論述了什么是同齡人，同齡人壓力的表現(xiàn)，及同齡人壓力的積極影響和消極影響。總之，文章論述了關(guān)于同齡人壓力的看法。
小題1:從第一段Your peers are people your age or close to it who have experiences and interests similar to yours說(shuō)明peers是你的同齡人或擁有相似的體驗(yàn)和興趣的人，結(jié)合第三段Peer pressure can influence a person to do something that is relatively harmless--- or something that has more serious consequences可知選C。
小題2:從第二段第一句Sometimes, though, the stresses in your life can actually come from your peers句意的轉(zhuǎn)折，談到同伴的消極影響，即有時(shí)生活中的壓力實(shí)際上可能來(lái)自同伙，結(jié)合第一段破折號(hào)后面的內(nèi)容可以推斷空格處是對(duì)同伙持肯定態(tài)度，故選Ｃ
小題3:從第四段第一句People may feel pressure to conform, so they fit in or are accepted, or so they don’t feel awkward or uncomfortable可確定正確答案為B。
小題4:從第三段最后一句Peer pressure can influence a person to do something that is relatively harmless--- or something that has more serious consequences說(shuō)明同齡人壓力也可以影響一個(gè)人做些相對(duì)無(wú)害的事情，從而排除A（觀點(diǎn)不全面），B項(xiàng)犯了同樣的毛病，Ｃ項(xiàng)表達(dá)錯(cuò)誤，從眾并不一定能做出正確選擇。故選Ｄ。
小題5:縱觀全文，主要論述了什么是同齡人，同齡人壓力的表現(xiàn)，及同齡人壓力的積極影響和消極影響。故選A，有關(guān)同齡人壓力的看法。
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