本篇选自2025年北京卷真题，讲的是成年人的特质，话题贴近生活，现将本题解题思路呈现如下。
原题展示：【2025北京卷】
What is adulthood? Societies all over the world view the concept of an adult as self-supporting and self-directed, because it identifies a point in the life cycle.
As Alice Black points out, today’s parents’ fear of letting kids do more housework has added to their inability to feel competent and, thus, confident in themselves. Psychologist Robert Turner wrote about this in his book, The Life Cycle, mentioning a stage when kids learn self-direction and mastery. 35 ______
But Turner’s other cycles are just as important. 36 ______If these life cycles are delayed, interrupted, or denied, you feel incapable of accessing your states of self, controlling unpleasant feelings, and manipulating (操控) the energy that puts together the fabric of your inner world.
Turner wisely said that “doing well” psychologically is being able to roll with the flow of emotions, manage them, communicate clearly and well with others, and master various skills. This requires an internal locus (核心) of control, which implies self-control of your thoughts, feelings, and actions. 37______You’re self-directed and not reliant on the world to tell you who you are. And you know who you are within all this.
So, being an adult isn’t just holding a job. Being an adult is about having a rooted sense of self while being capable of identifying and managing your emotions and actions. 38 _____We are a social species, so this is important.
While raising an adult is a parent’s job, it’s also our responsibility as a society to ensure that we support schools that nurture (培养) emotional and identity development. 39 ______
A. It’s also our job to support adults who need help repairing incomplete life cycles.
B. They talk about someone’s inability to support themselves through work.
C. It’s being able to show understanding when communicating with others.
D. In other words, you’re playing the game of life — life isn’t playing you.
E. They teach emotional awareness and management as well as identity.
F. You feel like an 18-year old, especially when playing 80s music.
G. When this stage is denied it creates a sense of insecurity.
解题思路：
第一步：勾画七个选项关键信息
A. It’s also our job to support adults who need help repairing incomplete life cycles.（注意代词it的指代关系）
B. They talk about someone’s inability to support themselves through work.
（注意代词they的指代关系）
C.It’s being able to show understanding when communicating with others.
D. In other words, you’re playing the game of life — life isn’t playing you.
E. They teach emotional awareness and management as well as identity.
（注意代词they的指代关系）
F. You feel like an 18-year old, especially when playing 80s music.
G. When this stage is denied it creates a sense of insecurity.
第二步：逐一理解和翻译有空的前后一两句话信息，明确逻辑关系，选出正确答案。
35：Psychologist Robert Turner wrote about this in his book, The Life Cycle, mentioning a stage when kids learn self-direction and mastery. (G) When this stage is denied it creates a sense of insecurity.空前“提到一个阶段”，G选项“当这个阶段被否认时”，前后都在说“stage”。
36：But Turner’s other cycles are just as important.（E）They teach emotional awareness and management as well as identity.空前说“其他圈子同样重要”，E选项说他们教会了情感意识和管理，这就是重要性的体现。特别注意代词they的指代关系。
37：This requires an internal locus (核心) of control, which implies self-control of your thoughts, feelings, and actions.（D）In other words, you’re playing the game of life — life isn’t playing you.空前说的是内部核心控制和自我控制，选项说的是“你正在玩人生的游戏”，正在控制人生的游戏。
38：（C）It’s being able to show understanding when communicating with others.选项中communicating with others与后文中We are a social species, so this is important中的social species相对应。
39：根据句式选择。空前的to ensure that we support schools that nurture (培养) emotional and identity development与（A) It’s also our job to support adults who need help repairing incomplete life cycles.前后都在说“支持”的事儿。
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