On average, American kids
来源 :焚题库 2020-06-01
中On average, American kids ages 3 to 12 spent 29 hours a week in school, eight hours more than they did in 1981. They also did more household work and participated in more of such organized activities as soccer and ballet. Involvement in sports, in particular, rose almost 50% from 1981 to 1997：boys now spend an average of four hours a week playing sports; girls log half that time. All in all, however, children's leisure time dropped from 40% of the day in 1981 to 25%.
''Children are affected by the same time crunch that affects their parents,”says Sandra Hofferth, who headed the recent study of children's timetable. A chief reason, she says, is that more mothers are working outside the home. (Nevertheless, children in both double-income and umale breadwinner”households spent comparable mounts of time interacting with their parents, 19 hours and 22 hours respectively. In contrast, children spent only 9 hours with their single mothers.)
All work and no play could make for some very messed-up kids. "Play is the most powerful way a child explores the world and learns about himself," says T. Beny Brazelton, professor at Harvard Medical School.Unstructured play encourages independent thinking and allows the young to negotiate their relationships with their peers, but kids ages 3 to 12 spent only 12 hours a week engaged in it.
The children sampled spent a quarter of their rapidly decreasing 4
单选题第1题According to T. Berry Brazelton, it’s better for a child if______.
A.he has plenty of time reading and studying
B.he is free to interact with his working parents
C.he has more time participating in school activities
D.he has enough time to play and explores the world
参考答案：D
试题解析
细节题°文中第三段提到“Play is the most powerful way a child explores the world and learns about himself”即玩耍是儿童探索世界和了解自己最有效的方式，故本题选D。试题解析
细节题°文中第三段提到“Play is the most powerful way a child explores the world and learns about himself”即玩耍是儿童探索世界和了解自己最有效的方式，故本题选D。单选题第2题Which is NOT the situation American kids face today?
A.Spending eight hours more time a week at school.
B.Participating in more activities than the past.
C.Having more time playing.
D.Spending more time in sports.
参考答案：C
试题解析
细节题。文中第一段提到，现在的孩子每周待在学校的时间比1981年多8个小时，参加更多如足球、芭蕾舞等活动，并且在体育运动上花费的时间也更多了；分别对应选项中的A、B、D。最后一句提到“children’s leisure time dropped from 40% of the day in 1981 to25%”，即孩子放松、玩耍的时间变少了。所以C项不是现在孩子面临的情况。试题解析
细节题。文中第一段提到，现在的孩子每周待在学校的时间比1981年多8个小时，参加更多如足球、芭蕾舞等活动，并且在体育运动上花费的时间也更多了；分别对应选项中的A、B、D。最后一句提到“children’s leisure time dropped from 40% of the day in 1981 to25%”，即孩子放松、玩耍的时间变少了。所以C项不是现在孩子面临的情况。单选题第3题According to Sandra Hofferth, the main reason leading to "the same time crunch" of children is that______.
A.more mothers are working outside the home
B.children don’t have chance to play with their parents
C.children are not taken good care of by their working parents
D.parents have trouble in managing their time
参考答案：A
试题解析
细节题。文中第二段第二句提到“A chief reason，she says，is that more mothers are working outside the home”主要原因是更多的妈妈们在外面工作，故本题选A。试题解析
细节题。文中第二段第二句提到“A chief reason，she says，is that more mothers are working outside the home”主要原因是更多的妈妈们在外面工作，故本题选A。单选题第4题Nowadays, the troublesome problem is that American kids______.
A.are increasingly neglected by their working mothers
B.are involved less and less in household work
C.are spending more and more time watching TV
D.are engaged in lots of structured activities
参考答案：D
试题解析
细节题◎文中第三段最后一句话提到“Unstructured play encourages independent thinking and allows the young to negotiate their relationships with their peers，butkidsages3to12spentonly12hoursaweekengagedinit二即无组织的玩耍可以鼓励孩子的独立思考，但是3到12岁的孩子每周只有12个小时的时间做这些。所以D项“做更多有组织的活动”，是现在孩子的一个很麻烦的问题口试题解析
细节题◎文中第三段最后一句话提到“Unstructured play encourages independent thinking and allows the young to negotiate their relationships with their peers，butkidsages3to12spentonly12hoursaweekengagedinit二即无组织的玩耍可以鼓励孩子的独立思考，但是3到12岁的孩子每周只有12个小时的时间做这些。所以D项“做更多有组织的活动”，是现在孩子的一个很麻烦的问题口单选题第5题We can infer from the passage that______.
A.extracurricular activities promote children's intelligence
B.most children will turn to reading with TV sets switched off
C.efforts to get kids interested in reading have been fruitful
D.stopping kids watching TV is not a way to let them read
参考答案：D
试题解析
推断题。文中最后一段提到即使不让孩子看电视，孩子也不会去阅读，故D项正确。试题解析
推断题。文中最后一段提到即使不让孩子看电视，孩子也不会去阅读，故D项正确。
