MBA考试

【单选题】Passage 6
On average,American kids aged 3 to 12 spent 29 hours a week in school, eight hours more than they did in 1981. They also did more household work and participated in more of such organized activities as soccer and ballet. Involvement in sports, in particular, rose almost 50% from 1981 to 1997: boys now spend an average of four hours a week playing sports; girls log half that time.All in all, however, children’s leisure time dropped from 40% of the day in 1981 to 25%.
"Children are affected by the same time crunch 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. (Nevertheless, children in both double-income and "male breadwinner" households spent comparable amounts of time interacting 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 could make for some very messed-up kids. "Play is the most powerful way a child explores the world and learns about himself," says T.BerryBrazelton, professor at Harvard Medical School. Unstructured play encourages independent thinking and allows the young to negotiate their relationships with their peers, but kids aged 3 to 12 spent only 12 hours a week engaged in it.
The children sampled spent a quarter of their rapidly decreasing "free time"watching television.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
The author is concerned about the fact thatAmerican kids
A、are engaged in more and more structured activities.
B、are increasingly neglected by their working mothers.
C、are spending more and more time watching TV.
D、are involved less and less in household work.
网考网参考答案：A
网考网解析：
细节题。文章开篇就提出了作者关注的问题，即孩子们的free time越来越少，然后分析了其中的原因和弊端，指出：free time的减少正是由于structured activities的增多造成的。这与A的意思相符。第二段只是引用相关研究结果，并没有表明外出工作的母亲更加忽视孩子，所以B不对；从最后一段可知，孩子们将增加的free time的1/4用来看电视，并不表示把“把越来越多的时间用来看电视”，而且作者并未关注孩子看电视的时间问题，所以C不对；根据第一段第二句话可知，D与作者的意思正好相反。 document.getElementById("warp").style.display="none"; document.getElementById("content").style.display="block"; 查看试题解析出处>>