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1、2022年6月英语四级阅读练习及答案：课余生活2022年6月英语四六级考试太难？只是你没有找对方法而已！点击查看秘籍！点击进入免费试听 *点击进入免费试听四六级考试课程！On average，American kids ages 3 to 12 spent 29 hours a week in school，eight hours more that they did in 11011.They also did more household work and participated in more of such organized activities as soccer and bal
2、let (芭蕾舞)。Involvement in sports，in particular，rose almost 50% from 11011 to 11017：boys now spendan average of four hours a week playing sports; girls log hall that time. All in all，however，childrensleisure time dropped from 40% of the day in 11011 to 25%“Children are affected by the same time crunch
3、 (危机) that affects their parents” says Sandra Hofferth，who headed the recent study of childrens timetable.A chief reason，she says，is that more mothers are working outside the home.Nevertheless，children in both double-income and “male breadwinner” householdsspent comparable amounts of time interactin
4、g 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. Berry Brazelton，profess
5、or at Harvard Medical School Unstructured play encourages independent thinking and allows the young to negotiate their relationships withtheir 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 “free time” watching te
6、levision.But that，believe it or not，was one of the findings parents might regard as good news.If theyre 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 week reading.Lets
7、 face it，whos got the time?练习题：Choose correct answers to the question：1. By mentioning “the same time crunch” (Line 1，Para.2) Sandra Hofferth means _.A.children have little time to play with their parentsB.children are not taken good care of by their working parentsC.both parents and children suffer
8、 from lack of leisure timeD.both parents and children have trouble managing their time2.According to the author，the reason given by Sandra Hofferth for the time crunch is _.A.quite convincingB.partially trueC.totally groundlessD.rather confusing3.According to the author a child develops better if _.
9、A.he has plenty of time reading and studyingB.he is left to play with his peers in his own wayC.he has more time participating in school activitiesD.he is free to interact with his working parents4.The author is concerned about the fact that American kids _.A.are engaged in more and more structured
10、activitiesB.are increasingly neglected by their working mothersC.are spending more and more time watching TVD.are involved less and less in household work5.We can infer from the passage that _.A.extracurricular activities promote childrens intelligenceB.most children will turn to reading with TV set
11、s switched offC.efforts to get kids interested in reading have been fruitfulD.most parents believe reading to be beneficial to children答案及解析：1.C 语义理解题。该短语所在句子的上文(第1段最终一句)表明“孩子的课余时间比以前少了”，而本句指出父母和孩子都受time crunch的影响，可见the same time crunch是指空闲时间不够用，故C正确。2.B 观点看法题。第2段第2句中括号里的内容表明白作者的观点。转折词Nevertheless说明
12、作者的观点跟上文Sandra Hofferth的看法不完全一样，而作者在下文举例中提到，单身母亲因为要上班，与孩子在起的时间只有9个小时，的确少了许多，这与Hofferth所述一样，因此选B.3.B 事实细微环节题。第3段最终一句表明孩子自由玩乐能促使他们独立思索，并使他们学会处理与同龄关系，其中unstructured play 相当于B中的play in his own way，故B正确。4.A 观点看法题。文章一开头作者就说孩子们比11011年时上学的时间每周多8小时，他们还做更多的家务，参与更多的有组织性的活动等等，而这些均是造成孩子们空闲时间越来越少的缘由，而孩子们空闲时间少也正是作
13、者忧虑的问题，故可推知本题选A.B是作者在第2段括号里反对过的观点;C错在more and more time，而且作者对孩子看电视也不完全反对;孩子们事实上要做更多家务，故D错。5.D 推理推断题。文章最终一段倒数第2句说“尽管父母费尽心思培育孩子的读书爱好，可孩子们一周也只不过花一个多小时读书”。由此可见，父母认为读书对孩子有好处，即D.A中的extracurricular activities包含 structured and unstructured activities，文中只说unstructured activities有助于培育孩子独立思索以及与同龄人交往的实力，没有说structured activities对intelligence有什么帮助;B与文章的倒数第3句不符;C与倒数第2句不符。本文来源：网络收集与整理，如有侵权，请联系作者删除，谢谢！第3页 共3页第 3 页 共 3 页第 3 页 共 3 页第 3 页 共 3 页第 3 页 共 3 页第 3 页 共 3 页第 3 页 共 3 页第 3 页 共 3 页第 3 页 共 3 页第 3 页 共 3 页第 3 页 共 3 页
