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1、大学英语四级阅读题含答案大学英语四级阅读题含答案大学英语四级阅读题: 【原文】 On average,American kids ages 3 to 12 spent 29 hours a week inschool,eight hours more that they did in 1981.They also did morehousehold work and participated in more of such organized activitiesas soccer and ballet (芭蕾舞)。Involvement in sports,in particular,ros
2、e almost 50% from 1981 to 1997:boys now spendan average of fourhours a week playing sports; girls log hall that time. All in all,however,childrensleisure time dropped from 40% of the day in 1981to 25%“Children are affected by the same time crunch (危机) thataffects their parents” says Sandra Hofferth,
3、who headed the recentstudy of childrens timetable.A chief reason,she says,is that moremothers are working outside the home.Nevertheless,children in bothdouble-income and “male breadwinner” householdsspent comparableamounts of time interacting with their parents 19 hours and 22 hoursrespectively.In c
4、ontrast,children spent only 9 hours with theirsingle mothers.) All work and no play could make for some very messed-upkids.“Play is the most powerful way a child e 某 plores the world andlearns about himself,” says T. Berry Brazelton,professor atHarvard Medical School Unstructured play encourages ind
5、ependentthinking and allows the young to negotiate their relationshipswiththeir peers,but kids ages 3 to 12 spent only 12 hours a weekengaged in it. The children sampled spent a quarter of their rapidly decreasing“free time” watching television.But that,believe it or not,wasone of the findings paren
6、ts might regard as good news.If theyre第 1页 共 4页spending less time in front of the TV set,however,kids arentreplacing it with reading.Despite efforts to get kids more interestedin books,the children spent just over an hour a week reading.Letsface it,whos got the time?大学英语四级阅读题: 【题目】 Choose correct an
7、swers to the question:1. By mentioning “the same time crunch” (Line 1,Para.2) SandraHofferth 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
8、children have trouble managing their time 2.According to the author,the reason given by Sandra Hofferthfor 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 stu
9、dying B.he is left to play with his peers in his own way 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 negle
10、cted by their working mothers C.are spending more and more time watching TV第 2页 共 4页 D.are involved less and less in household work 5.We can infer from the passage that _. A.e 某 tracurricular activities promote childrens intelligence B.most children will turn to reading with TV sets switched off C.e
11、fforts to get kids interested in reading have been fruitful D.most parents believe reading to be beneficial to children大学英语四级阅读题: 【答案】 1.C 语义理解题。该短语所在句子的上文(第 1 段最后一句)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 观点态度题。第 2 段第 2 句中括号里的内容表明了作者的观点。转折词 Nevert
12、heless 说明作者的观点跟上文 Sandra Hofferth 的看法不完全一致,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,确实少了很多,这与 Hofferth 所述一致,因此选 B. 3.B 事实细节题。第 3 段最后一句表明孩子自由玩乐能促使他们独立思考,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 观点态度题。文章一开头作者就说孩子们比 1981 年时上学的时间每周多 8 小时,他们还做更多的家务,参加更多的有组织性的活动等等,而这些均是造成孩子们
13、空闲时间越来越少的原因,而孩子们空闲时间少也正是作者忧虑的问题,故可推知本题选 A.B 是作者在第 2 段括号里反驳过的观点;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 推理判断题。文章最后一段倒数第 2 句说“尽管父母费尽心思培养孩子的读书兴趣,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 e 某 tracurricular activities 包含structured and unstructured activities,文中只说 unstructuredactivities 有助于培养孩子独立思考以及与同龄人交往的能力,没有说第 3页 共 4页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。猜你感兴趣: 1.大学英语四级阅读理解专练题及答案 2.大学英语四级精选题阅读题及答案 3.大学英语四级阅读练习题 附答案 4.大学英语四级阅读练习题带答案 5.大学英语四级阅读理解练习题及答案 6.大学英语四级阅读理解试题附答案第 4页 共 4页
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