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阅读下列短文,从每题所给的四个选项中选出最佳选项。

  On average, American kids aged 3 to 12 spent 29 hours a week in school, eight hours more than they did in 1991. They also did more household work and took part in more of such organized activities as soccer and ballet (芭蕾舞). Involvement in sports, in particular, rose by almost 50% from 1991 to 2003: boys now spend an average of four hours a week playing sports; girls log half that time. All in all, however, children's free time dropped from 40% of the day in 1991 to 25%.

  “Children are affected by the same time crunch(短缺) 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. (However, children in both double-income and“male breadwinner”families spent similar amounts of time communicating 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 makes Jack a dull boy.“Play is the most powerful way a child explores the world and learns about himself,”says T. Berry Brazehon, professor at Harvard Medical School. Unstructured play encourages independent thinking and allows the young to develop their relationships with their peers (同龄人), but kids aged 3 to 12 spent only 12 hours a week being engaged in it.

  The children sampled(抽样) spent a quarter of their rapidly decreasing“free time”watching televisin. But that, believe it or not, was one of the findings parents might regard as good news. If they'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 week reading. Let's face it, who's got the time?

1.By mentioning“the same time crunch”(in Paragraph 2) Sandra Hofferth means _____.

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A.children have little time to play with parents

B.both parents arid children suffer from lack of free time

C.both parents and children have trouble managing their time

D.children are not taken good care of by their working parents

2.According to the author, the reason given by Sandra Hofferth for the time crunch is _____.

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A.totally true

B.quite believable

C.rather difficult to understand

D.not based on facts

3.According to the author a child develops better if _____.

[  ]

A.he has plenty of time reading and studying

B.he is free to communicate with his working parents

C.he is left to play with his peers in his own way

D.he spends more time on school activities

4.The author finds the fact that American kids _____.

[  ]

A.do less and less household work

B.are spending more and more time watching TV

C.are engaged in more and more structured activities

D.get enough attention from their working mothers

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请认真阅读下列短文,从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中,选出最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

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Scars of Love

Some years ago on a hot summer day in south Florida a little boy decided to go for a swim in the old swimming hole behind his house. In a hurry to dive into the cool water, he ran out of the back door, leaving behind shoes, socks and shirt as he went.

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Remarkably, after weeks and weeks in the hospital, the little boy survived. His legs were extremely scarred (留下伤疤) by the terrible attack of the animal. And on his arms, were deep scratches where his mother’s fingernails dug into his flesh in her effort to hang on to the son she loved.

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