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On her first morning in America, last summer, my daughter went out to explore her new neighborhood—alone, without even telling m
On her first morning in America, last summer, my daughter went out to explore her new neighborhood—alone, without even telling m
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2016-01-30
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On her first morning in America, last summer, my daughter went out to explore her new neighborhood—alone, without even telling my wife or me. Of course we were worried; we had just moved from Berlin, and she was just 8. But when she came home, we realized we had no reason to panic. Beaming with pride, she told us how she had discovered the little park around the corner, and had made friends with a few local dog owners. She had taken possession of her new environment, and was keen to teach us things we didn’ t know.
When this story comes up in conversations with American friends, we are usually met with polite disbelief. Most are horrified by the idea that their children might roam around without adult supervision. A study by the University of California, Los Angeles, has found that American kids spend 90 percent of their leisure time at home. Even when kids are physically active, they are watched closely by adults. Such narrowing of the child’s world has happened across the developed world. But Germany is generally much more accepting of letting children take some risks. To this German parent, it seems that America’ s middle class has taken overprotective parenting to a new level.
"We are depriving them of opportunities to learn how to take control of their own lives," writes Peter Gray, a research professor at Boston College. He argues that this increases "the chance that they will suffer from anxiety, depression, and so on," which have gone up dramatically in recent decades. He sees risky, outside play of children among themselves without adult supervision as a way of learning to control strong emotions like anger and fear.
I am no psychologist like Professor Gray, but I know I won’ t be around forever to protect my girl from the challenges life holds in store for her, so the earlier she develop the intellectual maturity to navigate the world, the better. And by giving kids more control over their lives, they learn to have more confidence in their own capabilities.
It is hard for parents to balance the desire to protect their children against the desire to make them more self-reliant. And every one of us has to decide for himself what level of risk he is ready to accept. But parents who prefer to keep their children always in sight and under their thumbs should consider what sort of trade-offs are involved in that choice.
Which of the following is NOT true about the author’ s daughter?
选项
A、She went out without adult supervision.
B、She knew where the little park was located.
C、She visited her new neighbors and made some friends.
D、She had more ideas about the surroundings than the author.
答案
C
解析
根据题干关键词定位到第一段。C项的neighbors是对文中explore her newneighborhood的误解,因此C项为正确答案。首句提到“她就走出去探索新的社区了——独自一人,甚至没告诉我和我太太”,A项“她在没有成年人监护的情况下走出去”.withoutadult supervision是句中alone,without even telling…的同义替换,因此符合文意。B项“她知道小公园坐落在哪儿”与文中的she had discovered the little park around the corner意思一致。D项“她比作者对于周围的环境知道得更多”与文中的teach us things we didn’t know意思一致。
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考研英语一
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