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In the following text, some sentences have been removed. For Questions 41-45, choose the most suitable one from the list (A、B、C、
In the following text, some sentences have been removed. For Questions 41-45, choose the most suitable one from the list (A、B、C、
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2010-02-22
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In the following text, some sentences have been removed. For Questions 41-45, choose the most suitable one from the list (A、B、C、D、E、F、G……) to fit into each of the numbered blank. There are several extra choices, which do not fit in any of the gaps. (10 points)
Every now and then a study comes along whose chief interest lies in how peculiarly askew its findings seem to be from the common perception of things. Sometimes, of course, the "surprising new study" itself turns out to be off in some way. But if the data are fundamentally sound, then what you really want to know is why sensible people hold such a contrary view.
(41)______. Researchers took a closer look at an earlier study that had been widely interpreted, when it was first published in 2000, as proof that the homework monster was growing, and insatiable. A Time magazine cover article spawned a mini-genre of trend stories, all peopled by pale, exhausted kids and bewildered boomer parents whose own homework memories seemed to encompass only felt puppets and shoe-box dioramas. But the new report points out that while the amount of time school-children 12 and under devoted to study at home did indeed grow between 1981 and 1997, the increase was small: an average of 23 minutes per week. (42)______.
So why do so many parents seem to think otherwise? One answer is that the real in crease in homework that has been documented is among younger children. In 1981, for instance, one third of 6 to 8-year-olds had some homework; one-half did in the late 90’s. (43)______. And since children 6 to 8 are the ones we particularly like to think of as engaged in unstructured play we imagine them riding bikes in the honeyed light of waning afternoons, even when what they might well be doing, in the absence of homework, is watching TV homework for them seems like one of those heavy handed incursions on the freedom of childhood.
(44)______. These children go to elite private schools or to demanding public ones where the competitive pressures are such that they either really do have hours of homework each night or take hours finishing it because they (or their parents) are so anxious that it be done well. They come from the demographic that makes a cultural, almost a moral, ideal of enrolling children in soccer and oboe lessons and karate and ballet, and so their time really is at a premium. (45)______.
A. Moreover, 20 percent fewer children between the ages of 9 and 12 were doing homework at all in 1997 than in 1981. And high-school students spent no more time on homework than they did in previous decades.
B. That is certainly the question raised by a Brookings Institution report released last month showing that the amount of time kids devote to homework has not, in fact, significantly increased over the last two decades.
C. Behind the seeming contradictions of steady homework levels and the antihomework backlash, in other words, is the reality of social class.
D. They are likely to have busy professional parents, oversubscribed themselves but with an investment in seeing their children produce book reports of a kind that teachers, counselors and, in time, college admissions boards will find impressive.
E. Anti-homework crusades are not new in 1901, for example, California passed a law abolishing homework for grades one through eight but they have usually been led by the same kinds of people, which is to say, elites.
F. Since parents are more likely to have to supervise a first or second grader doing homework than an older child, the earlier launching of a homework regimen might feel like a disproportionate increase in the parental workload.
G. But the bigger answer, I suspect, is that the parents we tend to hear from in the press, at school-board meetings and in Internet chat groups, the parents with elaborated, developmentally savvy critiques of standards and curriculums, are parents whose children really are experiencing a time crunch.
选项
答案
A
解析
文章第二段后面提到,1981~1997年期间,作业的增加量很小,平均每周23分钟。选项A紧接着此话题论述,在1997年,9~12岁的孩子做家庭作业的比1981年少20%。根据两个比较的年份,可知此处正确答案应为A。
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