英语四级考试阅读训练题含答案

英语四级考试阅读训练题含答案英语四级考试阅读训练题含答案 英语四级考试阅读训练题(一) On average, American kids ages 3 to 12 spent 29 hours a week in school, eight hours more thatthey did in 1981. They also did more household work and participated in more of suchorganized activities as soccer and ballet (芭蕾舞). Involvement in sports, in particular, rosealmost 50% from 1981 to 1997: boys now spendan average of four hours a week playingsports; girls log hall that time. All in all, however, childrensleisure time dropped from 40% ofthe day in 1981 to 25% Children are affected by the same time crunch (危 机) that affects their parents, says SandraHofferth,who headed the recent study of childrens timetable. A chief reason, she says, is thatmore mothers are working outside the home. (Nevertheless, children in both double-income andmale breadwinner householdsspent comparable amounts of time 第 1 页 共 11 页 interacting with theirparents 19 hours and 22 hours respectively. In contrast, children spent only 9 hours with theirsingle mothers.) All work and no play could make for some very messed-up kids. Play is the most powerful waya child explores the world and learns about himself, says T. Berry Brazelton, professor atHarvard Medical School Unstructured play encourages independent thinking and allows theyoung to negotiate their relationships withtheir peers, but kids ages 3 to 12 spent only 12 hoursa week engaged in it. The children sampled spent a quarter of their rapidly decreasing free time watching television.But that, believe it or not, was one of the findings parents might regard as good news. Iftheyre spending less time in front of the TV set, however, kids arent replacing it with reading.Despite efforts to get kids more interested in books, the children spent just over an hour a weekreading. Lets face it, whos got the time 练习题： Choose correct answers to the question: 第 2 页 共 11 页 1. By mentioning the same time crunch (Line 1, Para. 2) Sandra Hofferth means________. A. children have little time to play with their parents B. children are not taken good care of by their working parents C. both parents and children suffer from lack of leisure time D. both parents and children have trouble managing their time 2. According to the author, the reason given by Sandra Hofferth for the time crunch is________. A. quite convincing B. partially true C. totally groundless D. rather confusing 3. According to the author a child develops better if ________. A. he has plenty of time reading and studying B. he is left to play with his peers in his own way 第 3 页 共 11 页 C. he has more time participating in school activities D. he is free to interact with his working parents 4. The author is concerned about the fact that American kids ________. A. are engaged in more and more structured activities B. are increasingly neglected by their working mothers C. are spending more and more time watching TV D. are involved less and less in household work 5. We can infer from the passage that ________. A. extracurricular activiti