They like not having to listen to me shouting to them. Or as Alex says，“You’re so much nicer online.”
All I know is that the house is quiet. But we’re talking.
【解题导语】 作者夫妇因为孩子们经常发生争执而烦恼。后来作者给大儿子发了电子邮件。事情得到了改善。作者也从这件事中学会了如何和孩子们相处。
25．What was the trouble before the online talk in the family? A．The writer failed to understand her daughters. B．The children couldn’t get along peacefully. C．The family found it difficult to keep the house clean. D．The parents were not willing to talk with their children.
B 解析：细节理解题。根据文中的When my three children were young, most days it was hard keeping my house from becoming a battlefield.可知答案。
26．The writer once tried to deal with her son’s problem by ________． A．talking with him about his pain B．telling him about the truth of the family C．telling her daughters to keep away from him D．encouraging her daughters to fight against him
D 解析：细节理解题。根据文中的I even tried telling the girls to fight back.可知答案。 27．The writer e-mailed her sister ________． A．to tell her about the family problem B．hoping she’d e-mail the boy C．asking about child-raising D．to escape from the problem
A 解析：细节理解题。根据文中的When there was no way out, I told everything to my sister, Mary, in an e-mail.可知答案。
28．The underlined phrase “tune me out” in the passage probably means ________． A．quarrel with me B．get angry with me C．pay no attention to me D．keep me out of their rooms
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C 解析：词义猜测题。根据文中的Best of all, I now have a better way to talk with not one but three of them.可知，作者的孩子们不像以前那样不理睬作者的意见了。故选C项。
C
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