Parents' job is to teach their children the basic skills and give them the knowledge they need to be successful in life.This，to me，requires teamwork.For example，the mother teaches her children manners and good health skills，while the father teaches them how to catch a ball or drive a car.However，in today's society，we find that more and more parents are feeling that this teamwork is a one­sided thing.According to a report，there are about 13.7 million single parents raising their children in the USA and this could be due to the fact that parents don't take responsibility for their children，so they leave one parent to do it alone.This is a sad fact，and it reflects that effective teamwork is losing ground in the parenting aspect of our everyday lives.

　　Another place where teamwork affects us greatly is in our jobs.It doesn't matter if you are in a small or large company；if you have at least one employee and yourself，then teamwork works.I have noticed that with the current economic recession (衰退)，people are racing to find jobs but the quality of people's work has gone down greatly.It just appears to me that people don't take pride in their work anymore.They get to work as fast as they can，just to receive the paycheck，but their quality standards fly__right_out_of_the_window.So I think teamwork is losing its ground in the workforce.

　　As you can see，we run into the aspects of teamwork in just about everything we do.Teamwork is all about working together to achieve a common goal and after reading this article，please judge this for yourself "do you believe teamwork is losing ground in today's society"．In my opinion，I think it is.

　　语篇解读　年轻人的团队精神正在丧失，主要原因是单亲家庭增多和目前经济萎缩导致人们不太乐意跟他人合作，作者也提出了自己对这个问题的看法。

　　1．According to the first paragraph，the author may agree that________.

　　A．today's parents are too busy to spare time for their children

　　B．it is the mother's duty to bring up the young children

　　C．fathers are spending too little time taking care of their children

　　D．parents play a very important role in their children's success in life

　　解析：　作者观点题。根据Parents' job...be successful in life可知D项正确。

　　答案：　D

　　2．What might be the reason why there are many single parents raising their children in the USA?

　　A．Because single parent families are more popular in the USA.

B．Because parents in the same family find it hard to get along.