1、大學英語四級閱讀題含答案On average> American kids ages 3 to 12 spent 29 hours a week in school, eight hours more that they did in 1981. They also did more household work and participated in more of such organized activities as soccer and ballet 芭蕾舞° Involvement in sports, in particular? rose almost 50%

2、from 1981 to 1997： boys now spendan average of four hours a week playing sports; girls log hall thattime. All in all, howevert children "sleisure time dropped from 40% of the day in 1981 to 25%uChildren are affected by the same time crunch 危機 that affects their parentsM says Sandra Hofferth, wh

3、o headed the recent study of children 's timetable. A chief reason, she says, is that moremothers are working outside the home. Nevertheless, children in both double-income and “male breadwinnerM householdsspent comparable amounts of time interacting with their parents 19 hours and 22hours respe

4、ctively. 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, professor at HarvardMedical School Unstruct

5、ured 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 television. But that, believe

6、 it or not, was one of the findings parents might regard as good news. Ifthey 're spending less time in front of the TV set, however» kids aren, t replacing it with reading. Despite efforts to get kids more interested in books, the children spent just over an hour a weekreading. Let 4 s fac

7、e it, who' s got the time?Choose correct answers to the question：1. By mentioning uthe same time crunchM 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 f

8、rom 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 structu

10、red 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 children 's intelligenceB. most children will turn to read

11、ing with TV sets switched offC. efforts to get kids interested in reading have been fruitfulD. most parents believe reading to be beneficial to children1. C語義理解題。該短語所在句子的上文第1段最后一句表明“孩子的課余時間比 以前少了”，而本句指出父母和孩子都受time crunch的影響，可見the same time crunch是指空閑時間不夠用，故C正確。2. B觀點態度題。第2段第2句中括號里的內容表明了作者的觀點。轉折詞 Nev

12、ertheless說明作者的觀點跟上文Sandra Hofferth的看法不完全一致，而作者在下文 舉例中提到，單身母親因為要上班，與孩子在起的時間只有9個小時，確實少了很多，這 與Hofferth所述一致，因此選B.3. B事實細節題。第3段最后一句表明孩子白由玩樂能促使他們獨立思考，并使他 們學會處理與同齡關系，其中unstructured play相當于B中的play in his own way. 故B正確。4. A觀點態度題。文章一開頭作者就說孩子們比1981年時上學的時間每周多8小 時，他們還做更多的家務，參加更多的有組織性的活動等等，而這些均是造成孩子們空閑 時間越來越少的原因，而孩子們空閑時間少也正是作者憂慮的問題，故可推知本題選A.B 是作者在第2段括號里反駁過的觀點;C錯在more and moretime,而且作者對孩子看電視也不完全反對;孩子們事實上要做更多家務，故D錯。5. D推理判斷題。文章最后一段倒數第2句說“盡管父母費盡心思培養孩子的讀書 興趣，可孩子們一周也只不過花一個多小時讀書”。由此可見，父母認為讀書對孩子有好 處， 即 D. A 中的 ex