题目内容
“In real life, the daily struggles between parents and children are around these narrow problems of an extra hour, extra TV show, and so on” said Avi Sadeh, psychology professor at Tel Aviv University. “Too little sleep and more accidents,” he said.
Sadeh and his colleagues found an extra hour of sleep can make a big difference. The children who slept longer, although they woke up more frequently during the night, scored higher on tests, Sadeh reported in the March/April issue of journal Child Development.
“When the children slept longer, their sleep quality was somewhat weak, but in spite of this their performance for study improved because the extra sleep was more significant than the reduction in sleep quality. ” Sadeh said. “Some studies suggested that lack of sleep as a child affects development into adulthood and it’s more likely to develop their attention disorder when they grow older. ”
In earlier studies, Sadeh’s team found that fourth graders slept an average of 8. 2 hours and sixth graders slept an average of 7. 7 hours.
“Previous research has shown children in elementary school need at least nine hours of sleep a night on a regular basis, said Carl Hunt, director of the National Center on Sleep Disorders Research in Bethesda, and high-school-age children need somewhat less, he said, adding the results of insufficient sleep could be serious.
“A tired child is an accident waiting to happen,” Hunt said. “And as kids get older, toys get bigger and the risks higher. ”Hunt also said too little sleep could result in learning and memory problems and long-term effects on school performance.
“This is an important extension of what we already know, ” Hunt said of Sadeh’s research, adding sleep is as important as nutrition(营养) and exercise to good health.
“To put it into reality,” Hunt said, “parents should make sure they know when their children actually are going to sleep and their rooms are conducive to sleeping instead of playing. ”
What is Child Development?
A A new story B A popular book
C. A periodical magazine D A TV programme
How many persons are exactly mentioned in the text?
A One B Two C Three D Four
The underlined phrase “conducive to” (in the last sentence) means ________.
A helping to happen B influenced by
C full of D acceptable of
Which of the following statements is NOT true according to the passage?
A. There are some daily struggles between parents and children because of having nothing in common with extra rest time.
B. The children who sleep longer are weak in their study.
C. Lack of sleep as a child has great effect on their development into adulthood.
D. In general, children in elementary school need at least nine hours of sleep a night.
【小题1】C
【小题2】B
【小题3】A
【小题4】B
解析:
【小题1】C 间接推理题。由上下文及其言论的report和 in the March/April issue of journal;显然强调的是“定期的刊物”;periodical是period的形容词,故选A periodical magazine.
【小题2】B 直接事实题。全文涉及的具体的人就是:Sadeh和Hunt.
【小题3】A 推理判断题。为了将“睡眠与营养一样重要”付之实施,家长应该给孩子营造一个“有利于睡觉”而不是“玩耍”的居室。选项A与conducive to“有利于…的” 相符。
【小题4】B 细节判断题。选项A正确。可依据第一段来考虑:这种争吵主要是在额外的休息时间不能达成共识。B项错误。睡眠时间长的孩子睡眠质量不一定高,但学业有进步。可依据第三段。C项正确。缺乏睡眠的孩子会影响发育成长。可依据第四段。D项正确。一般而言,小学生一晚上需要至少九小时睡眠时间。可依据第五段。
The evidence for harmony may not be obvious in some families. But it seems that four out of five young people now get on with their parents, which is the opposite of the popularly held image(印象)of unhappy teenagers locked in their room after endless family quarrels.
An important new study into teenage attitudes surprisingly shows that their family life is more harmonious than it has ever been in the past.” We were surprised by just how positive today’s young people seen to be about their families,” said one member of the research team.” They’re expected to be rebellious(叛逆的) and selfish but actually they have other things on their minds; they want a car and material goods, and they worry about whether school is serving them well. There’s more negotiation(商议) and discussion between parents and children, and children expect to take part in the family decision-making process. They don’t want to rock the boat.”
So it seems that this generation of parents is much more likely than parents of 30 years ago to treat their children as friends.” My parents are happy to discuss things with me and willing to listen to me,” says 17-years-old Daniel Lazall.”I always tell them when L’m going out clubbing. As long as they know what I’m doing, they’re fine with it.” Susan Crome,who is now 21,agrees.”Looking back on the last 10 years, there was a lot of what you could call negotiation. For example, as long as I’d done all my homework, I could go out on a Saturday night. But I think my grandparents were a lot stricter with my parents than that.”
Maybe this positive view of family life should not be unexpected. It is possible that the idea of teenagers rebellion is not rooted in real facts. A researcher comments,” Our surprise that teenagers say they get along well with their parents comes because of a brief period in our social history when teenagers were regarded as different beings. But that idea of rebelling and breaking away from their parents really only happened during that one time in the 1960s when everyone rebelled. The normal situation throughout history has been a smooth change from helping out with the family business to taking it over.”
【小题1】What is the popular images of teenagers today?
A.They worry about school |
B.They dislike living with their parents |
C.They have to be locked in to avoid troubles |
D.They quarrel a lot with other family members |
A.share family responsibility |
B.cause trouble in their families |
C.go boating with their family |
D.make family decisions |
A.go to clubs more often with their children |
B.are much stricter with their children |
C.care less about their children’s life |
D.give their children more freedom |
A.may be a false belief | B.is common nowadays |
C.existed only in the 1960s | D.resulted from changes in families |
A.Negotiation in family | B.Education in family |
C.Harmony in family | D.Teenage trouble in family |