PARENT-CHILD COMMUNICATION
          As tweens turn into teens, parents can have an increasingly hard time getting messages across. A new study suggests one way for parents to keep up communication: Sit down together for dinner.
          The results show that while parent-child communication generally declines as kids go through middle school, eating meals together can help protect against this conversation dip.
          Kids who frequently ate dinner with their parents when they were in sixth grade saw less of a change in communication with their folks over three and a half years than kids who rarely or never ate dinner with their parents in sixth grade.
The results suggest family dinners in a child’s early adolesence can set the stage for long-lasting communication.
          The benefical effect of family dinners on parent-child communication is real. However, the researchers can’t distinguish whether the children kept up good communication because they ate family meals together, or they ate meals together because they already got along well with their parents in sixth grade. Family studies can help better clarify the reasons.         
28. The problems in communication between parents and children arise when the children__________.
      A. enter high school                                                    B. turn twelve
      C. start grade seven                                                    D. go through middle school year
29. As kids go through secondary school, they find it hard to __________.
      A. communicate                                                          B. share their feelings
C. get the text across their place,                               D.talk to their parents.
30. According to the passage, kids ate dinner with their parents in sixth grade__________..
A.  talk to their parents the same way over years later.
B.  see their folks more often.
C.  rarely have dinner with their parents the next few years.
D.  find it hard to talk to their parents later.
31. It is suggested that long-lasting communication is__________.
A. set in early teens.                                             B. early in life.
C.  resulted from early dinner.                              D.the cause of family dinner.
32. What needs further research to clarify?
A.  The reasons families have dinner together
B.  The bond that hold families together
C.  The talk that families share in meals
D. The reasons for lasting family communication