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【单选题】As a fitness coach in Grand Rapids, Mich. ,DoreenBolhuis has a passion for developing exercises for children. The younger, it seems, the better. "With the babies in our family," she said, "I start working them out in the hospital. " Ms.Bolhuis turned her exercises into a company, Gymtrix, that offers a library of videos starting with training for babies as young as 6 months. There is no lying in the crib playing with toes.
Infant athletes, accompanied by doting parents on the videos, do a lot of jumping, kicking and, in one exercise, something that looks like baseball batting practice.^①
The growing competition in marketing baby sportsDVDs includes companies with names like athleticBaby andBaby Goes Pro.Even experts in youth sports seem startled that the age of entry has dipped so low. "That’s really amazing. What’s next " saidDr. Lyle Micheli, an orthopedic surgeon.
Dr. Micheli said he did not see any great advantages in exposing babies to sports. "I don’t know of any evidence that training at this infancy stage accelerates coordination," he saiD、One of his concerns, he said, is "the potential for even younger ages of overuse injury. "
The Little Gym, based in Seottsdale,Ariz. , begins classes for children at 4 months olD、BobBingham, the company’s chief executive, said that about 20,000 youngsters under 2—about a quarter of the total enrollment— were signed up for classes at locations in the United States,Canada and Puerto Rico. That is a sizable increase from last year, he saiD、The company, which has gyms in 20 countries, plans to open 100 locations over the next five years. My Gym, based in Sherman Oaks,Calif. , said 55 percent of those who attend classes at its 200 locations—157 in the United States—were 2 or younger.
The entrepreneurs behind these businesses—gym teachers, accountants and former professional athletes among them—make no claims about turning today’s babies into tomorrow’s SuperBowl star.^② In the past, marketing claims for products geared toward babies have caused trouble for companies.Disney, which owned the popularBabyEinstein brand, dropped the term educational" after a children’s-rights group objected to contentions that babies who watched "BabyEinstein" were learning, ^③Disney also offered refunds.
That’s not enough to sellDr. Micheli on the idea of sports classes for tykes.Betore rushing off to a day of treating injured athletes, he said, "We won’t be putting their brochures in our cliniC、\
Which is the best title of the passage
A、Sports Training HasBegun forBabies and Toddlers

B、Sports TrainingDoes Harm toBabies and Toddlers
C．ShouldBabies Have Sports Training
D．What Training ShouldBabies and Toddlers Have

网考网参考答案：A
网考网解析：
主旨题。本文开篇用Ms. Bolhuis的例子引出婴儿很早就开始进行体育锻炼的话题，第二段具体描述婴儿进行体育锻炼的场景，第三段引用Dr. Mlicheli的话对婴儿进行体育训练提出了质疑，接着具体介绍这种公司的发展情况。可见文章的主旨是婴儿早期开始进行体育训练，故[A]为答案。文中第三段和第四段提到了专家的质疑，但这只是文中的部分内容，主体部分是对这一现象的说明和介绍，排除[B]；文章并未就婴儿是否应该很早开始进行体育训练进行论证，[C]为以偏概全，排除；文章除了第二段提到jumping, kicking，并未就锻炼的内容进行详细说明，可见[D]不是主旨，排除。 document.getElementById("warp").style.display="none"; document.getElementById("content").style.display="block"; 查看试题解析出处>>