题目内容
The survey about childhood in the Third World shows that the struggle for survival is long and hard. But in the rich world, children can 1 from a different kind of poverty-of the spirit. 2 , one Western country alone now sees 14 000 attempted suicides (自 杀) every year by children under 15, and one child 3 five needs psychiatric (心理) advice.
There are many good things about 4 in the Third World. Take the close and con-stant relation between children and their par-ents, relatives and neighbours for example. In the West, the very nature of work puts dis-tance between 5 and children. But in most Third World villages mother and father do not go miles away each day to work in of-fices. 6 , the child sees mother and father,relations and neighbours working 7 and often shares in that work.
A child 8 in this way learns his or her role through joining in the community's 9 : helping to dig or build, look after ani-mals or babies-rather than 10 playing with water and sand in kindergarten, keeping pets 11 playing with dolls.
These children may grow up with a less oppressive sense of space and time than the 12 children. Their sense of days and time has a lot to do with the change of seasons and positions of the sun or the moon in the sky. Children in the rich world, 13 , are pro-vided with a watch as one of the 14 signs of growing up, so that they can 15 along with their parents about being late for school times, meal times, bed times, the times of TV shows...
Third World children do not usually 16 to stay indoors, still less in high-rise apartments (公寓). Instead of dangerous road, “keep off the grass” signs and “don't speak to strangers”, there is often a sense of 17 to study and play. Parents can see their children outside rather than observe them 18 from ten floors up.
19 , twelve million children under five still die every year through hunger and disease. But childhood in the Third World is not all 20 .
解析：
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(1) 发达国家的孩子受到精神压力。(2) 本题为举例说明，for instance例如。(3) one in five 意为“五个当中有一个”。(4) 说明第三世界国家儿童的童年有很多乐趣。(5) 文中说这些孩子离成年人较远。(6) instead 意为“代替，反而，而”。(7) 第三世界国家孩子的父母、亲戚、邻居常在家附近工作。(8) 在他们成长的过程中，……(9) 这些孩子融入了社区活动，A应用复数。(10) 由上句提示可知用through。(11) 此处表选择。(12) 此处指与西方发达国家的孩子相比。(13) 由语境可知空格处应填表示“另一方面，相反”的词或短语。(14) 最早的成长的标志。(15) 短语care about适合句意。(16) 在此表示他们通常不用必须呆在家里。(17) 此处表示第三世界国家的儿童有自由学习和玩的条件。(18) 发达国家的父母急切地关注着他们的孩子。(19) 进一步解释第三世界国家的情况。(20) 这个转折句承接上文“……但是并不是总是很差的”。 |
