英语六级阅读理解100篇令人窒息的爱doc.docx

1、英语六级阅读理解100篇令人窒息的爱doc2018年12月英语六级阅读理解100篇：令人窒息的爱 Smother Love Every morning,Leanne Brickland and he sister would bicycle to school with the same words ringing in their ears:watch out crossing the road.Dont speak to strangers.Mum would stand at the top of the steps and call that out,says Brickland,no

2、w a primary-school teachet and mother of four from Rotorua,New Zealand.Substitute boxers and thongs for undies(内衣),and the nagging fears that haunt parents havent really changed.What has altered,dramatically,is the confidence we once had in our childrens ability to fling themselves at life without a

3、 grown-up holding their hands Worry-ridden Parents and Stifled Kids By todaysstandards,the childhood freedoms Brickland took for granted practically verge on parental neglect.Her mother worked,so she and her sister had a key to let themselves in after school and were expected todo their homework and

4、 put on the potatoes for dinner.At the familys beach house near Wellington,the two girls,from the age of five or six,would disappear for hours to play in the lakes and sands. A generation later,Bricklands children are growing up in a world more indulged yet more accustomed to peril.The techno-minded

5、 generation of PlayStation kids who can conquer entire armies and rocket through spacecant even be trusted to cross the street alone.I worry about the road.I worry about strangers.In some ways I think theyre missing out,but I like to be able to see them, to know where they are and what theyredoing.

6、Call it smother love,indulged-kid syndrome,parental neurosis(神经症).Even though todays children have the universe at their fingertips thanks to the Internet,their physical boundaries are shrinking at a rapid pace.According to British social scientist Mayer Hillman,a childs play zone has contracted so

7、radically that were producing the human equivalent of henhouse chickens-plump from lack of exercise and without the flexibility and initiative of freerange kids of the past.The spirit of our times is no longer the resourceful adventurer Tom Sawyer but rather the worry-ridden dad and his stifled only

8、 child in Finding Nemo. In short,child rearing has become an exercise in risk minimization,represented by stories such as the father who refused to allow his daughter on a school picnic to the beach for fear she might drown.While its natural for a parent to want to protect their children from danger

9、,you have to wonder;Have we gone too far? Parents Wrap Kids up in Cotton Wool A study conducted by Paul Tranter,a lecturer in geography at the Australian Defence Force Academy in Canberra,showed that while Australian and New Zealand children had similar smounts of unsupervised freedom,it was far les

10、s than German of English kids.For example,only a third of ten-year-olds in Australia and New Zealand were allowed to visit places other than school alone,compared to 80 percent in Germany. Girls were even more restricted than boys,with parents fearing assault or molestation(骚扰),while traffic dangers

11、 were seen as the greatest threat to boys.Bike ownership has doubled in a generation,butindependent mobility-the ability to roam and explore unsupervised-has radically declined.In Auckland,for example,many primary schools have done away with bicycle racks because the streets are considered too unsaf

12、e.And in Christchurch,New Zealands most bike-friendly city,the number of pupils cycling to school has fallenfrom more than 90 percent in the late 1970s to less than 20 percent.Safely strapped into the family 4x4,children are instead driven from home to the school gate,then off to ballet,soccer or sw

13、imming lessons-rarely straying from watchful adult eyes. In the U.S.Journal of Physical Education,RecreationDance,New Jersey assistant principal and hockey coach Bobbie Schultz writes that playing in the street after school with neighbourhood kids-creating their own rules,making their own decisions

14、and settling disputes-was where the real learning took place.The street was one of the greatest sources of my life skills,she says.I dont seeon-the-street playanymore.I see adult-organized activities.Parents dont realize what an integral part of character development their children are missing. Armo

15、ured with bicycle helmets,car seats,safeplaygrounds and sunscreen,children are getting the messageloud and clear that the world is full or peril-and that theyre ill-equipped to handle it alone.Yet research consistently shows young people are much more capable than we think,says professor Anne Smith,

16、directorof New Zealands Childrens Issues Centre.The thing that many adults have difficulty with is that children cant learn to be grown-up if theyre excluded and protected all the time. Educational psychologist Paul Prangley reckons its about time the kid gloves came off.He believes parenting has ta

17、ken on a paranoid(患妄想狂的)edge thats creating a generation of naive,insecure youngsters whoare subconsciously being taught theyre incapable of handing things by themselves.Flexibility and the ability to resist pressure and temptation are learned skills,Prangley explains.If you wrap kids up in cotton w

18、ool and dont give them the opportunity to take risks,theyre less equipped to make responsible decisions later in life. Parents Should Gain Proper Perspective Sadly,high-profile cases of children being kidnapped and murdered-such as ten-year-old Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman in the United Kingdom;f

19、ive-year-old Chloe Hoson in Australia,whose body was found just 200 metres from where she lived;and six-year-old Teresa Cormack in New Zealand,who was snatched off the street on her way to school-only serve to reinforce parentsfears.Teresa Cormacks death,for example,was one of the rare New Zealand c

20、ases of random child kidnap.In Australia,the odds of someone under the age of 15 being murdered by a stranger have been estimated at one in four million.A child is at far greater risk from afamily member or someone they know. However,parental fear is contagious.In one British study,far more children

21、 feared an attack by a stranger than being hit by a car.We are losing our sense of perspective,write Jan Parker and Jan Stimpson in their parenting book,Raising Happy Children.Every parent has to negotiate their own route between equipping children with the skills they need to stay safe and not rest

22、ricting or terrifying them unnecessarily in the process. Dr.Claire Freeman,a planning expert at the University of Otago,points to the erosion of community responsibility as another casualty of that mutual distrust.Not so long ago,adults knew all the local kids and werethe informal guardians of the n

23、eighbourhood.Now,particularly if you are a man,you may hesitate to offer help to a lost child for fear your motives might be questioned. More Space and More Attention to Kids Needs As a planner in the mid-1990s,Freeman became concerned about the loss of green space to development and the erosion of

24、informal places to play.In a study that looked at how children in the British city of Leeds spent their summer holidays,compared with their parents childhood experiences,she found the freedom to explore had been severely contracted-in some cases,down to the front yard.Freeman says she cannot remembe

25、r being inside the house as a child,or being alone.Growing up was about being part of a group.Now a mother offour,Freeman believes the domestication of playis robbing kids of their sense of belonging within a society. Nevertheless,Freeman says childrens needs are starting to get more emphasis.In the

26、 Netherlands,child-friendly home zoneshave been created where priority is given to pedestrians,rather than cars.And ponds arebeing incorporated back into housing estates on the principle that children should learn to be safe aroundwater,rather than be surrounded by a barren landscape.After all ,as o

27、ne of the smarter fosh says in Finding Nemo theres one problem with nothing ever will. 1.According to Brickland,parents nowadays have changed their_. A)standards of the childrens proper dressing B)worry about the childrens personal safety C)ways to communicate with children D)confidence in the child

28、rens ability 2.When Brickland and her sister were little,they kept the home key because_. A)they wanted to be trusted B)their mother had to work C)their mother didnt live at home D)they were very naughty and wild 3.Mayer Hillman indicates that children now have less and less_. A)space for playing B)

29、contact with animals C)concern about others D)knowledge about nature 4.Paul Tranter finds that eighty percent of the children were allowed to visit places other than school alone in_. A)Australia B)New Zealand C)Germany D)Britain 5.What is ranked by parents as the greatest threat to boys? A)Gang cri

30、mes. B)Online games. C)Extreme sports. D)Dangerous traffics. 6.Bobbie Schultz points out that real learning takes place in_. A)on-the-street play B)adult-organized activities C)student-centered teaching D)home and nature 7.What accident had happened to a little girl called Chloe Hoson? A)She was rob

31、bed on her way to school. B)She was kidnapped and murdered. C)She fell a victim to domestic violence. D)She disappeared for no reason. 8.Claire Freeman thinks that lack of mutual trust results in_. 9.Freeman concludes that kids are robbed of their sense of belonging to the society by_. 10.Netherland

32、s has placed the rights of pedestrians before those of cars in such areas called_. 答案： 1.D定位首段末句。 解析：题止中的changed与原文该句中的altered为同义词，可见altered的宾语confidence为答案的关键间，在4个选项中，只有D与confidence有关，为本题答案。A中的dressing试图将考生的注意力转移到首段倒数第2句的boxers(四脚裤)和undies(内衣)，虽然这两个词比较陌生，但看到该句末的havent changed，就无须考虑太多，可以肯定A并非本题答案。其他两个选项的内容在原文并未提及。 2.B定位根据题干中的Brickland, her sister及home key定位到第1个小标题Worry-ridden Parents and Stifled Kids下首段第2句。